Booking a padel court in Spain used to mean working the phone. Pablo Carro, Félix Ruiz and Pedro Clavería had to call club after club to find a free slot for a match, El Español reported. They built an app to fix it in 2017.
That app became Playtomic. Alejandro Betancourt López’s résumé lists him as one of its founding partners.
2017 to 2019: A Booking App Finds Its Clubs
Growth came club by club. By April 2019, more than 50,000 users had joined. They could book more than 2,500 football fields, padel courts and tennis courts at 600 clubs, EU-Startups reported. Clubs in Portugal, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden had signed on as clients.
Playtomic raised €6 million that spring from Optimizer Invest and GP Bullhound, along with private investors. We believe they have what it takes to build a world class mobile consumer experience