Ben Borden
- Co-Founder at Podplay
GetLatka interview
How Podplay Reached $3M Contracted ARR and 200 Locations with a Vertical SaaS Platform for Sports Clubs (Interview with Co-Founder Ben Borden)
Ben Borden (Co-Founder of Podplay) spoke to Nathan Latka on December 30, 2025.
Podplay figures from the interview
- Contracted ARR
- $3M
- Locations on Platform
- 200
- Courts on Platform
- 2,000+
- Series A Raised
- $8M
- Year-over-Year Growth (reported Feb 2026)
- 100%+
“We are kind of approaching 3,000,000 in in contracted ARR. We have a little over 200 locations signed up on the platforms. I think we're over 2,000 courts now.”
“Pickleball was growing like crazy in The US, you know, growing kind of sport by a pretty wide margin. And people had seen what we've done in table tennis. They loved the kind of the experience, the UX, the software, how we were combining software and hardware.”
“We are charging on kind of a per court basis, that's the kind of primary model. ... You end up with a SaaS fee, so it's not a transaction based model. You're getting monthly SaaS fees.”