I’m an Elite Athlete who started a bootstrapped hardware sports tech company that was acquired.
I created MATE Sports Tech, a sports tech company that endeavoured to make high performance sports tech affordable. It was started to solve a problem I had. I was training towards the 2022 Commonwealth Games but couldn’t afford specialized training tools that the ‘Pros’ had.
The first product was a velocity based training device called Barbell Mate that gave readings of velocity, force and power while lifting.
The second product was the worlds first reflectorless timing gate system called Timing Mate. Traditional timing gates were clunky to use and required a reflector to setup and align. Timing Mate changed this.
I solely developed everything with these products and scaled it to customers in more than 25 countries and was acquired by Strength By Numbers.
Beyond this, I currently compete at an international level in the Highland Games.