ReSpo.Vision raises €4.2M to redefine the sports viewing experience

A deep tech sports startup pioneering AI-powered tracking and visualisation solutions ReSpo.Vision, has raised €4.2 million in its latest funding round. 

VC funds Vinci and Smartlink led the round, with participation from Premier League defender Jan Bednarek, a mainstay of Poland’s national team. Other high-profile angel investors include Marcin Zukowski (co-founder of Snowflake) and Amar Shah (co-founder of Wayve).

ReSpo.Vision’s technology uses computer vision and deep learning to extract highly detailed 3D tracking data from single-camera video feeds, such as standard sports TV broadcasts. The system detects over 50 body points per player in 3D space with centimetre-level accuracy. This drastically reduces the cost of data capture, making analysis possible for more clubs and federations across the sporting world. ReSpo.Vision transforms this data into tactical insights and performance analytics.

Paweł Osterreicher, CEO and co-founder of ReSpo.Vision said:

The way we watch football hasn’t fundamentally changed since the 1960s. We’re using AI to break that barrier - putting fans on the pitch, giving broadcasters next-gen storytelling tools, while providing clubs and federations with elite tactical insight.  

This funding is a strong endorsement of our vision to bring sport into a more interactive, intelligent era. Whether powering enhanced broadcasts, highlight reels, or second-screen experiences, we are helping rights-holders to deliver richer, more interactive content without costly production overheads.

This funding round will help make this a reality for more competitions that have historically lacked access to the latest data and analysis innovations.

The fresh investment will be used to expand ReSpo.Vision’s offers to broadcasters, rights-holders, and digital platforms. At the heart of this is ReSpo.Vision’s Digital Twin Technology, hyper-realistic recreations of real-life matches that allow fans to relive key match moments from a unique player's first-person perspective.

Digital Twin Technology is designed to give viewers a new way of engaging with sport, enabling fans to experience a mazy dribble and goal through the eyes of a striker, or a brilliant attacking move from the view of one of the defenders left behind.

Bartosz Drabikowski, president of the management board of Vinci S.A., stated: 

ReSpo.Vision confirms that technologies with global potential can be created in Poland. We support companies that create innovations and, on top of that, can successfully develop and export them.

We consider this project to be very promising, both in terms of technology as well as investment. We also acknowledge the potential this solution has in the future. For instance, the possibility of future implementation of this technology in other industries, such as defense or medicine.

The investment will accelerate the company’s mission to reshape how fans experience football and how broadcasters, leagues, and federations deliver it, by bringing unprecedented insight and immersion to the game.

Lead image: ReSpo.Vision founders Lukasz Grad, Pawel Osterreicher, Mateusz Szala and Wojciech Rosinsk Photo: uncredited