About

DRAFA is a sports-tech team building a digital community where athletes and amateurs alike connect with the game. At its core, DRAFA is creating a healthy competitive space for people to stay active, improve performance, and enjoy sports with others. Our mission is to foster active living and community through the power of sport. We simplify access to sports by enabling users to discover venues, join or create matches, compete in leagues, and track progress — all in one place. DRAFA empowers users with matchmaking tools, progress tracking features, and gamified motivation (badges, leaderboards), creating an ecosystem that keeps users engaged long-term. For venue owners, we offer an all-in-one mobile-first SaaS solution that streamlines bookings, payments, and player engagement. DRAFA is more than a product, it’s a movement to build healthier, more connected communities through sport.

Solution & Product

DRAFA is building the operating system for grassroots sports, serving both players and venue operators through an integrated B2C and B2B product suite. On the consumer side, the DRAFA app enables users to discover and book sports facilities, join or create sessions, invite friends, enter ladders and leagues, and connect with players of similar skill levels through a built-in matchmaking layer. This turns sports booking from a fragmented utility into a more social, structured, and engaging experience. On the business side, DRAFA Manager equips venues with a SaaS solution to manage availability, bookings, payments, customer activity, and operational workflows in one place. By combining marketplace demand with venue software, DRAFA solves pain points on both sides: players get easier access, better game matching, and stronger community engagement, while venues gain better occupancy, smoother administration, and more monetization opportunities.

Innovation & Scalability

DRAFA’s innovation lies in combining a consumer sports marketplace with venue operating software in one integrated ecosystem. This creates a stronger product loop, where user activity drives venue value and venue supply strengthens the consumer experience. Our embedded community features such as invites, ladders, leagues, skill-based matching, and achievements — increase engagement beyond one-off transactions and support stronger retention and network effects. On the B2B side, DRAFA Manager gives venues a scalable SaaS infrastructure to digitize scheduling, payments, and customer operations, making the platform operationally sticky. The model is designed to scale efficiently across geographies and sports categories. Once venue supply is onboarded, the same product infrastructure can be replicated city by city, while the software layer scales with limited marginal cost. Because we serve both demand and supply, we are building a defensible two-sided platform with recurring SaaS value, transaction revenue, and expanding data advantages around player behavior, participation, and venue utilization. This positions DRAFA to scale as both a sports community platform and a category-defining operating layer for grassroots sports.

Traction & achievements

DRAFA has achieved 1,200+ downloads with 31.9% of registered users converting to paid customers, 140 MAU, and c.40 weekly paying customers. User retention and network effects are already visible, with 43% of payers returning within 40 days and 67% of new users coming through invites. On the supply side, we have onboarded 10 venues, secured exclusive booking partnerships with Atlasbasketball.gr and basketaki.com, expanded beyond Attica, and generated early municipality interest.

Team & Why Us

DRAFA is built by people who live the experience on and off the court. We’re athletes, competitors, and product thinkers who experience the very problems we’re solving. Our team combines strong technical skills with deep sports market knowledge. From building scalable infrastructure to playing pickup matches on weeknights, we live both sides of the product. We move fast, we stay focused, and we’re committed to building a platform that truly serves the sports community because it’s our community too. DRAFA's two-sided network is built for compounding growth.

Funding Needs

We are seeking funding to execute DRAFAs go-to-market year and convert existing product strength into scaled commercial traction. With validation in place, the focus of this round is on accelerating venue onboarding, expanding user acquisition, increasing transaction volume, and further strengthening our B2B SaaS capabilities for venue partners. The capital will be used primarily across growth, sales, strategic partnerships, and targeted team expansion, with B2B product focus that improve monetization, retention, and operational scalability.