Catapult Sports activities Ltd (CAZGF) M&A Name Transcript

Will Lopes
CEO, MD & Govt Director

Good morning, and thanks for becoming a member of us. I am right here with Bob Cruickshank, Catapult’s Chief Monetary Officer, to stroll you thru the extremely thrilling acquisition of Impect that we introduced this morning. I am going to stroll you thru who Impect is, what it does in addition to the strategic rationale behind the acquisition. Then we’ll present a while on the finish for Bob and I to take any questions from members on the decision.

Impect is the worldwide innovation chief in soccer scouting analytics and tactical insights. They have been trusted by among the largest soccer groups all over the world. Based in Germany in 2014, Impect began out as a imaginative and prescient to deliver data-driven decision-making into an ecosystem of scouting evaluation that was nascent, unstructured and never producing significant insights to groups or federations.

Impect was based to deliver intelligence into this ecosystem. Immediately, Impect generates deep tactical insights for scouting from greater than 40,000 matches in 25 nations for greater than 150 groups and rising. They’ve develop into an end-to-end intelligence platform that encompasses participant scouting, opponent evaluation and inner benchmarking, using knowledge they gather and personal.

Their proprietary packing knowledge offers a novel perspective on video games, serving to groups and federations generate deeper insights into participant efficiency. Impect’s scalable technology-first cloud-based SaaS enterprise mannequin is carefully aligned with our technique and our subscription enterprise mannequin.

Relating to the transaction, we’re buying Impect for an upfront consideration of EUR 40 million, which is roughly AUD 71 million or USD 46 million. This