Our Mission

Athleague is committed to being the premier intramural league management website and sponsorship solution for college recreation programs.

Our Story

As a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Ravi decided to give intramural sports a try. After signing for his house's intramural football team, he set out to play in his first game one unseasonably cold Fall evening, dreaming of gridiron glory. After walking nine blocks, he reached the impeccably kept field, illuminated with bright stadium lights, only to find... no one there. The game had been canceled... Read more

Undaunted, he set out the following week, braving the chilly Philadelphia night. Only to find the game canceled, again. In the age of computers, email, cell phones, and laser pointers, he had somehow managed to miss the memo about the canceled games.

Puzzled, he called his close high school friend to see if he was experiencing the same problem at MIT. And they found that they weren't alone. All around the country, students didn't know when games were canceled, and this was the tip of the iceberg. Refs had no idea when they were assigned to games, staff were spending hours transcribing player information from sheets of paper to excel spreadsheets or desktop software, and worse. After seeing one intramural director print out hundreds of sheets of paper and lay them out over every corner of his office in an attempt to determine which teams should be put in which divisions, they decided it was time for a change.

Ravi, Mark, Nelson, and Benoit set out to build an intramural league management system for the 21st century. Entirely web based, it sought to save time for everyone involved with rec sports, and, just as importantly, strengthen the community.

Athleague does just that. Many schools all around the country use Athleague for their intramural programs (and to see how they feel about it, check out our Testimonials section).

But the team didn't stop there. As the recession hit in 2009 and rec budgets were deeply cut, they decided there was more work to be done. By negotiating deals with top flight sponsors, they not only brought the company to profitability, but arranged a revenue share that will pay each school an average of thousands of dollars a year just for using the website.

And the company continues to aim higher. They're constantly searching for ways to make intramural programs more money, and they'll soon be expanding their offering to include software solutions for other parts of college recreation departments. They welcomed Noah Becker to the team in 2010 to help manage the ever-growing list of colleges using Athleague.

Our Team

Ravi Mishra

Co-founder & CEO

Ravi Mishra is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he double majored in Materials Science Engineering and Business and played club Roller Hockey.

Though no one believes him, he swears he started at outside linebacker on his high school football team. He enjoys many sports, counting football, soccer, and hockey as his favorites (unfortunately, despite the picture, he's has no surfing skill, though he enjoys it thoroughly).

Benoit Simon

CTO

Benoit Simon is a graduate from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris and Paris XI, where he got his masters in System Controls and Signal Processing. Born and raised in France, his passion was for track and field, which led him to become French champion for 300m and 400m.

His trans-atlantic move to the US opened him to new traditional American sports, like curling or speed stacking. His dream is to help all the sports communities organize and enjoy their sports with no hassle. He is committed to deliver the best product in town. Or even out of town.

Mark Boudreau

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

A fan of all things Boston, Mark "Bo" Boudreau was born and raised to be on the field. A 2-sport athlete in both high school and college, including co-captain of the MIT football team (probably the smallest captain, if not player, on record), Bo's passion for playing sports is only rivaled by his passion for watching his teams win championships.

At a close third is his love for helping people compete. What started with running tournaments on paper evolved when Mark created a website during college to automate the process, and has continued with his engineering committment at Athleague.

Nelson Lai

Lead UI/UX Engineer

Nelson Lai is a California transplant who came to Boston for school, and ended up sticking around despite the terrible weather. An avid tennis and basketball player, he majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, with a particular interest in algorithms and interaction design.

Although originally a Lakers fan (during the late Magic and early Kobe years), after more than a decade in Boston, he now bleeds Celtics green. These days, he stays active playing bocce and riding his fixed-gear bike to the grocery store.

Noah Becker

Marketing & Social Media

Noah Becker is a Philadelphia sports nut, but please don't hold that against him. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, he worked in Public Programming for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Noah joined the Athleague team as the College Outreach Coordinator in May 2010, and, after moving to Marketing in the winter, has spent most of his time on Facebook and Twitter.

Shane Delmore

College Outreach Coordinator

Shane Delmore is graduate of MIT, where he concentrated in Information Technologies and Finance from the Sloan School of Management. Having been born and raised in North Dakota, he enjoys the "mild" Boston winters, rarely wearing a coat even with snow falling.

Despite only minor successes as a high school tennis player, he did become a three-time IM championship football player in college. He is an avid sports fan and can be seen every Sunday during football season wearing his throwback Bo Jackson jersey.

Our Investors & Advisors

Investors

Alex Doll

PGP Corporation

Co-founder and CFO of PGP Corporation, Doll is responsible for managing the company's finance, corporate development, alliances, and new market investment and partnering programs. Before helping found PGP Corporation in 2002, Doll was senior vice president of Sales, Business Development, and Support at Embark, a Web-based recruitment and admissions software company.

Previously, he was involved in the strategic planning and execution of corporate partnering and investment programs for PeopleSoft Inc. Doll has a BS in Telecommunications Systems Engineering and a BS in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Jeff Fluhr

StubHub

Jeff was the Founder and CEO of StubHub until its sale to eBay for $310 million in January of 2007. Jeff is an advisor to several Silicon Valley emerging technology companies. He has been honored as one of Sports Business Journal's prestigious "Forty Under 40," a list recognizing the most influential young executives in the sports industry; and by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 24 Best and Brightest young entrepreneurs in America.

Jeff earned a dual degree in Engineering and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania and attended Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked at The Blackstone Group and Thomas Weisel Partners.

Ken Glass

Glass5, LLC.

Ken Glass is an active angel investor and technology marketing consultant. Ken has worked for large (Bell Labs), medium (Microsoft) and small (Brightwork) companies in various marketing roles. At Microsoft he created managed the marketing relationships between Microsoft and Dell, Gateway and other PC makers and created the world's largest technical education conferences.

Today, Ken is involved with nearly 20 small companies and serves on the boards of several education and homeless nonprofits. Ken graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Engineering and Business (Wharton) and has a Masters in Engineering from Stanford University.

Anu Nigam

Hi5

Anurag Nigam, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate, who is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

He has been part of the founding teams of Cerent, Siara, hi5.com, 411Sync.com, and BuzzBox.com. He is the president of the Sand Hill Angels and has done over 30 personal investments.

Peter Kuperman

QED Benchmark Management, LLC.

Peter Kuperman is currently the sole managing member of QED Benchmark Management, LLC, a hedge fund based on self-developed algorithmic investment models. He holds degrees in Economics and Computer Science from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania, as part of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology.

Following his graduation, hen focused his competitive interests in training as a track and field athlete with the Nike Farm Team, becoming an accomplished marathon runner. Today, Mr. Kuperman enjoys being an investment fund manager by day and an amateur gourmet chef by night. He is also has philanthropic interests in both the education and environment.

Robin Hood Ventures

Robin Hood focuses on investing in early stage companies located in the Mid-Atlantic region. Portfolio companies include Vuzit, Aklero Process Solutions, Inc., Core Essence Orthopaedics, Inc., NanoPack Inc., Maverick Network Solutions, Protez Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Novartis), Bioconnect Systems, Intellifit (acquired by Unique Solutions), Paradigm Spine, Athleague, GlobalPrint, Power Medical Interventions (PMII), Compoze (acquired by BEA), and Etech Solutions, Inc., (acquired by Perficient - PRFT).

To date, Robin Hood has invested in more than 26 companies. For more information, visit: Robin Hood Ventures.

Advisors

Lee Hower

NextView Ventures

Lee is a Co-Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures, a micro VC firm which provides seed stage capital to internet entrepreneurs.

Lee was previously a Principal at Point Judith Capital, an early-stage VC firm. Prior to joining Point Judith Capital, Lee was one of the co-founders of LinkedIn and served as Director of Corporate Development from the company, from inception through venture funding and early growth phases. Previously he was an early employee at PayPal (IPO, later acquired by eBay), where he worked as a Product Manager and later served as Director, Financial Services.

Scott Rafer

Omniar

Scott runs Omniar, which is going to make Location a very human service in ways GPS can't be. He is also co-founder and director at Mashery and PercentMobile. Omniar was preceded by Lookery, one of the first ad networks on Facebook, portions of which were sold to Adknowledge in 2008; and MyBlogLog, a social network of bloggers, which Yahoo! acquired in 2007.

Rafer regularly speaks at technology and business events, keynoting Singapore's e27 event in 2009, Singtel Accelerate 2010, as well as speaking at Web2 Berlin, LeWeb in Paris, TheNextWeb in Amsterdam, and dozens of events across the US including four DEMO presentations, Web2, and Search Engine Strategies.

Adam Petrick

Puma