Marquee, a sports-tech startup building an AI-powered decision intelligence platform for professional clubs, has completed a $1.2 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by AnD Ventures, with participation from Avishai Abrahami and Omer Shai, founders of Wix; Ami Serkis, Founder and CEO of 365Scores; and venture capitalist Eyal Segal, former owner of Maccabi Netanya Football Club.
Marquee develops an advanced AI platform designed specifically for recruitment, scouting and performance analysis teams in football and basketball, with plans to expand into additional team sports. The platform unifies all of a club’s data, both from leading global data providers and internal club systems, into a single intelligence layer that generates clear, contextual and explainable recommendations tailored to each club’s unique playing philosophy, constraints and objectives.
Globally, sports clubs invest an estimated $60 billion annually in player transfers and contracts, alongside an additional $4.5 billion spent on technology, data providers and scouting personnel. Despite this investment, recruitment decisions are still largely driven by fragmented tools, siloed data and manual processes. As a result, more than half of all player transfers ultimately fail to meet expectations.
Positioned as a “Cursor for recruitment teams,” Marquee multiplies the impact of scouts and analysts, dramatically shortening analysis cycles, eliminating manual grunt work and allowing teams to focus on higher-level judgment and decision-making. By automating and streamlining 70% of existing recruitment and analytics workflows, Marquee helps clubs uncover overlooked talent and reduce the multi-million dollar “misses” defining the modern transfer market.
Marquee is currently developing its platform in close collaboration with 20 professional clubs from top divisions across Israel, Europe and the United States. For several of these clubs, Marquee has already supported real recruitment decisions during recent transfer windows. The newly raised capital will be used to accelerate product development, launch the first MVP in the coming weeks, and expand marketing and sales efforts in key global markets.
The company was founded in 2025 by CEO Dean Bracha, CPO Dror Rosenfeld, CDO Tal Darchi and CTO Jonathan Hazut. The founding team brings together deep experience across enterprise sales, marketing, data science and AI software development, alongside years of hands-on involvement in professional sports environments.
The platform was built in collaboration with leading scouts, analysts and sporting directors from top clubs across the globe, as well as with key industry figures such as Javier Sobrino, PhD, formerly Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at FC Barcelona.
“Professional team sports have undergone a data explosion over the past decade, moving from scarce information to an overwhelming volume of data,” said Bracha. “Even the most well-resourced clubs struggle to process it efficiently, avoid costly mistakes or consistently identify market opportunities. Marquee is built to be for scouts and analysts what Cursor is for developers: an AI-driven intelligence layer that multiplies their capabilities, accelerates decision-making and significantly reduces risk and waste in the transfer market.”
Adi Gozes, managing partner at AnD Ventures, added: “The global sports-tech market is growing rapidly, with over $30 billion in mergers and acquisitions in the past year alone. Player recruitment represents tens of billions of dollars annually, yet decision-making remains slow and fragmented. The Marquee team brings together exactly the right mix of technological depth and domain expertise to transform how clubs operate, enabling truly data-driven recruitment at scale.