Blog - Fun With Balls GmbH

FWB succeeds on its mission to increase physical activity

June 6, 2019 Monica Drusian Award, Events, News Comments are Off

FWB keeps spreading its mission to increase physical activity and participation in sports. During May it celebrates an amazing month of worldwide successes Munich, May 2019 - This month marked another huge step forward for our Startup FUN WITH BALLS on its mission to increase physical activity. We started with our multiBALL entering the UK market for the first time [...]

Tags: awards, conference, events, gamification, pitching, public speaking, sportification, sports, Sportstech, stage, startup, startup life

FWB raises its first institutional money led by HYPE Capital Fund

June 3, 2019 Monica Drusian Funding, News, Sports Comments are Off

Sportstech and Sports Gamification company FUN WITH BALLS raises its first institutional money led by HYPE Capital Fund and keeps growing its international team. Munich, 28 May 2019 – Markos Aristides Kern, Founder and CEO of FUN WITH BALLS GmbH, said: “How can physical sports compete with gaming for kids or make adults keep up sports in their busy schedules? The [...]

Tags: business, funding, gamification, growth, innovation, news, sportification, sports, Sportstech, startup, team, technology

multiBALL interactive tennis wall outdoor version at BMW Open 2019 by FWU

multiBALL Outdoor version at BMW Open by FWU 2019

May 3, 2019 Monica Drusian Events, Sports, Uncategorized Comments are Off

The multiBALL system, which was launched three months ago, has finally got a long-awaited outdoor version as part of the BMW Open by FWU 2019. FUN WITH BALLS introduces the world’s first interactive tennis wall as a fun and training tool in tennis at BMW Open by FWU 2019. The 4.5 by 3 meter wall made of glass, LED and sensors […]

Tags: business, event, fun, future, innovation, interactivefun, interactivewall, kids activities, outdoor, soccer, sports, Sportstech, tennis

Markos Kern wins F.I.S.T. Startup Pitching Competition

FWB wins the 2019 F.I.S.T. Edition in Toronto

March 8, 2019 Monica Drusian Award, Events, Sports Comments are Off

FWB has been crowned as the Champion of the 2019 F.I.S.T. Startup Pitching Competition Toronto, April 2019 – The F.I.S.T. Startup Pitching Competition has been created by the amazing team at the Future Innovation SportsTech Global Series (F.I.S.T.) and KPMG to acknowledge and reward the exceptional performance of the world’s best SportsTech and Esports innovators. The award recognises and honours our […]

Tags: business, future, innovation, pitch, sports, sports market, Sportstech, startup, tech, technology

Squash in the lead of innovation in the sport at PSA CHI 2019!

February 27, 2019 Monica Drusian Events, Sports Comments are Off

The ongoing PSA World Championships in Chicago is an event to be remembered. With some interactive fun going on in between sessions, interactiveSQUASH can transform a sport event into an exciting experience by adding the fun factor, in particular for kids. What’s happening in Chicago will make it a tournament to be remembered. It is not only the greatest event [...]

Tags: interactiveSQUASH, PSA, squash, squashcourt, world championships

Fun With Balls wins SPOBIS 2019 Startup competition

February 15, 2019 Monica Drusian Award, Sports Comments are Off

Fun With Balls has been recognized as the most innovative Startup in the Sport Business world at SPOBIS 2019 Our experience at SPOBIS 2019 couldn't have been more successful! Fun With Balls GmbH has won the Startup competitions as one of the most innovative Startups in the Sports world. Watch our Founder Markos Kern’s elevator pitch and join the revolution! [...] Read more

Press Release: New Member of the Board announcement

February 14, 2019 Monica Drusian Jobs, Sports Comments are Off

FWB welcomes Alfred Dietel as new Member of the Board We’re pleased to announce that Alfred Dietel has accepted the position of Director for Investor Relations and Strategy at Fun With Balls GmbH. Alfred Dietel has been an active venture investor focused on high technology companies from Europe and USA since 1998. As a venture investor and angel, he has [...]

Tags: business, employee, expertise, future, growing team, growth, hiring, innovation, management, Member of the Board, news, skills, sports, startup, startup life, team, technology

New Educational Games of interactiveSQUASH

October 26, 2018 Felix Baral Uncategorized No comments yet

Sports enter the curriculum through interactiveSQUASH with the release of ‘Countries’ application Set to keep kids active while learning a diversity of subjects, the development of new educational games is high on the goals of the interactiveSQUASH team. Now allowing for the opportunity to transform the court space on an extension of the classroom and present kids with learning material [...] Read more

40 meters lines to enter Squash Courts: This is the New Norm

October 18, 2018 Felix Baral Uncategorized No comments yet

With over 400 kids per day entering the interactiveSQUASH showcase court at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires we can safely say that we have positively disrupted the sport. By combining what is classically good about squash with the latest technologies the result is something undeniably more relevant for the new generations. Helping to bring squash closer than ever [...]

Tags: Buenos Aires, interactiveSQUASH, iSquash, Olympic, Pablo Serna, Professional Squash Association, squash, Tim Garner, World Squash Federation, YOG, Youth Olympic Games

Simon Rösner, Squash World’s No. 5 player, is thrilled to be the first professional squash athlete to gain all the advantages of training daily with interactiveSQUASH at Paderborner Squash Club (Germany)

August 23, 2018 Felix Baral Uncategorized No comments yet

Squash club owners are taking up action around the world to join the new era in squash and become squash clubs technology pioneers with the introduction of interactiveSQUASH in their facilities. This time, the protagonist is the Paderborner Squash Club, in Germany, which counts with 10 squash courts, coaching services, sport shop, sauna and bistro restaurant. The club offers top [...]

Tags: Ali Farag, interactiveSQUASH, Miguel Àngel Rodríguez, Paderborn, Paderborner Squash Club, PSA, Sarah-Jane Perry, Simon Rösner, squash athletes, technology