TAKKLE - Sports social networking site

TAKKLE, social network for sports enthusiast, today announced that it has closed series A round of funding. Investors in the funding round include WMG Investments, Greycroft Partners, IJ Smith Enterprises, and Jack Schneider, Managing Director at Allen & Company, Inc.

TAKKLE targeted mainly towards amateur athletes helps bring together amateur athletes, coaches and fans in a webby environment. Site enables uses to keep track of their favorite teams and players. TAKKLE currently provides most of the basic features including ability to join groups, invite friends, upload photos, view other users profiles, message box,…..TAKKLE team is working on building its its own video network, and provide other interactive features like ability to check out the top athletes by sport, and league.

Being a niche site is a great idea but at the same time implies access to a smaller user base. Given the intake of cash, TAKKLE should provide a much more comprehensive data on the sports events, enable users to track team/player activity and analyze performance data and videos using web-based tools to attract a broader set of users.