The Courts is building the first vertical, map-first marketplace for tennis — covering public parks, racquet clubs, and private home courts on a single app. We're opening a small allocation to community investors who play the sport and want to own a piece of where it's going. Read the full PRD below, then reserve your seat.
Court reservation and discovery is split across municipal websites, club software, and group texts. Every comparable category — restaurants (OpenTable), pools (Swimply), golf (GolfNow) — eventually converged on a vertical map-first leader. Tennis has not.
USTA/Physical Activity Council. Participation rebounded post-pandemic and is still growing 5–8% YoY in the under-35 cohort.
~60% public (parks/schools), 30% private clubs/HOAs, 10% residential. Most discoverable only by word of mouth or a 1998-era municipal portal.
Conservative estimate of paid court time + memberships allocated to court access. We capture a 12% platform fee on paid bookings.
We're allocating ~$100k of the round to community investors at $500 minimum. Carve-out is first-come, first-served once the lead investor signs.
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Download PRD (.docx)Product and engineering background; spent the last decade shipping consumer marketplace products. NTRP 3.5, lives the problem every weekend. Surrounded by a part-time founding team across design (ex-Airbnb), engineering (Drupal architect, 10+ years), and operations (former marketplace ops at a YC alum).
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