Ten Headz is a five-vertical operating platform building the infrastructure India's sports economy is missing — education, technology, facilities, live property, and athlete development — all under one hub.
India spent ₹13,000 Cr on sport in FY25. It will cross ₹25,000 Cr by FY28 — and the institutions to run it don't yet exist.
Ninety-four per cent of elite talent drops out between U16 and senior sport. Not from lack of ability, but from lack of structure: no career path, no certified coaches, no academic integration, no tech backbone.
Ten Headz is building the missing layer — a five-vertical operating platform that connects universities, academies, athletes, clubs, and brands into one coherent system.
Ten Headz is an integrated operating platform. Each vertical is its own line of business — with its own revenue model, its own customers, and its own margin profile. Each also produces demand for the next.
Creates the students.
Ten Headz designs and co-delivers certificate and degree programmes inside partner universities. They own admissions and facilities; we own the curriculum and the industry faculty. Revenue share model — zero real-estate risk.
Runs the operations.
Academy management software, AI video analytics, post-event media pipelines, and licensable sport-skill SDKs for agentic systems. Live at anchor academies today, scaling into the partner network.
Builds the facilities.
BOQ advisory, facility activation, and design consultancy for universities and academies building new sports infrastructure. Client-billed, milestone-paid, working-capital neutral. Earns us the right to place V1 and V5 inside the venues we deliver.
Monetises the spectacle.
An owned college-league property monetising through three clean channels: media (broadcast and streaming), participants (entry fees and ticketing), and ads (title and associate sponsors). We own the universities, the athletes, and the data.
Trains the athletes.
A flagship in-house academy anchoring a partner network that runs our coaching curriculum and technology stack. Elite pathway through international training tours. This is where the athletes the rest of the platform serves are actually developed.
The moat is not any single vertical. It is how each vertical creates demand for the next — and how every operator in the business eventually meets the same student, the same coach, the same venue, and the same hub.
Creates the trained student.
Develops them as athletes.
Measures and grades them.
Showcases them on a public stage.
Houses all of the above.
“Education creates trained students. Academy trains them as athletes. Technology measures them. League showcases them. Infrastructure houses them all.”
Inside V1 Sports Education, we organise sporting careers into twenty-one disciplines — fourteen sports multiplied into twenty-two vocational categories. Each has its own body of knowledge, its own employers, and its own earning curve. Together, they form the workforce behind every match.
Awarded by an accredited partner university on the programme's academic core. It is what a parent first looks at, and it is what the system first recognises.
Awarded by an internationally ranked research university on the chosen specialisation. It is what separates a Ten Headz graduate from a generalist in the market.
Completed under industry mentors during a six-month embedded internship, on live problems belonging to real organisations. It is what an employer actually hires on.
Aptitude assessment, campus experience day, and a structured briefing for the family that names the twenty-one disciplines and the earning curves behind each. The admission is a shared decision.
Forty per cent university academic core. Sixty per cent Ten Headz foundation. Three-week rotations through multiple disciplines so the specialisation choice is made with exposure, not guesswork.
Half of the teaching is delivered by working industry faculty. The global certification course begins. Each student is paired with an industry mentor and a live problem to work against.
Six months embedded inside a partner organisation on live work. Optional exchange semester at the global research partner for students on an academic track.
Degree, specialisation certificate, global professional certification, verified portfolio. A transcript a hiring manager can actually read.
A direct pipeline into the partner network that trained them. Lifelong access to alumni channels and periodic upskilling programmes, because careers in sport evolve with the industry.
Ten Headz is founder-led and intentionally senior from day one. Each leader owns a vertical they have actually run before — in sport, in technology, in capital, in construction, and at the federation level.
Founder
Two decades across sports technology and fintech. Founder of multiple sports and technology companies. State cricket association technology advisor. Runs an AI-focused investment vehicle. Owns strategy, capital, and the external narrative.
Co-Founder · Sport
Former India international cricketer. Television commentator on the world's most-watched cricket tournaments. Former head of talent scouting for a top franchise-cricket team. Held a technology-governance role with the sport's global governing body. Founder of the anchor cricket academy. The sporting credibility of the firm.
Tech
Multi-time sports-technology and consumer founder. Prior leadership in enterprise IT at a Fortune-100 retailer. Currently operates a live sports-technology product across a network of academies. Runs the operating tempo of the platform.
Finance · Ops
Finance leader with a prior career at a global investment bank. Six Sigma Black Belt. Runs both the books and the operating backbone — the FP&A, the month-end close, the investor reporting, and the quality systems that back every certificate we issue and every academy we accredit.
Infrastructure · Academy
Two decades of large-scale real-estate and luxury-hospitality project delivery. Former state-level cricket all-rounder. Known to the state cricket establishment. Owns the client-billed advisory and activation practice, and the in-house academy operations — the work that turns empty land into working training grounds.
People · Partnerships
Former state wicket-keeper. Fourteen years as a team manager inside top Indian franchise cricket. Serves on the managing committee of the state cricket association. The interface between the company and the people outside it — sponsors, broadcasters, government, federation — and the people inside it.
Partner conversations are active across Indian higher education, global research universities, sporting federations, broadcasters, franchises, data companies, and performance institutes.
Universities, industry, federations, and founding sponsors.
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