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1 Year | Ideation to Multi-Million Dollar Valuation

Here at Hyperspace Ventures we are fortunate to work with some of the world's most talented, driven and aspiring entrepreneurs. Less than twelve months ago, we ran into two incredible graduates from the University of North Carolina entering business school at Stanford - Andrew Powell and Sasha Seymore. The two were driven to transform and digitize sports playbook learning into an interactive and engaging learning experience.

Fast-forward a year later, Learn to Win boasts a multi-million dollar valuation, the team is selected to be part of the elite Pear VC summer program in Silicon Valley, and is rapidly growing. Their clients include top collegiate programs like Michigan, UNC, Stanford and Notre Dame. They are also garnering attention from professional teams across a variety of sports, including the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons, Miami Heat, and more. Today, Learn to Win has partnered with more than 90 prestigious professional, collegiate, and high school programs across America, with more added every week.

So how did they get here?

The journey began when Sasha walked on to the basketball team at North Carolina. Playing for an elite Division I basketball team, Sasha saw firsthand the complexity of a Division I playbook and the tremendous value that could be created with a tool that helped athletes learn and coaches teach. While searching for a way to help, they found out that athletes across various sports each had their own unique learning challenges. United by their passion for sports, Sasha combined his knowledge of sports with Andrew's expertise as a learning-experience designer to bring sophisticated learning science and interactive technology to the world of sports.

The two quickly put together an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to showcase to as many potential users as possible. They soon garnered feedback and honed in on the features and attributes their target customers cared most about. With a clear vision in mind for their product, the duo partnered with Hyperspace Ventures to flesh out all the designs and models. For Andrew and Sasha, choosing Hyperspace Ventures came down to four simple reasons:

Successful entrepreneurship track record
Strong and trustworthy leadership team
Proven the ability to build high quality products
Vision for product and culture alignment with L2W

Hyperspace quickly assembled a core team of software engineers, designers and product managers to realize the dream of helping athletes "learn to win" in an efficient and engaging way. In just a few months, the initial version was released and early customers got the opportunity to be beta testers. Feeding off of customers' feedback, Learn to Win continues to work with us to improve, adapt, and evolve the technology.

Perhaps the most impressive, however, are the founders' tenacity and drive to push and sell the product. In a competitive, global environment, we rarely see the common approach of "build it and they will come" work effectively. Unlike many product-oriented entrepreneurs who prefer to iterate and perfect the technology indefinitely, Andrew and Sasha got after it immediately and sold it!

To date, the Learn to Win team has won a variety of pitch competitions, earning more than $150,000 in prizes, and has been reached out to by multiple prestigious venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Looking ahead to the next twelve months, the founders say they are even more focused on sales. On the technology side, they want to drive the change around how athletes mentally prepare for their games, and how coaches teach, test, and measure preparation to eliminate errors.

We can't wait to see what's next for Learn to Win as they continue making a dent in the universe!

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