RYVAL

The global recruiting network for athletes and teams

Andrew Jayyosi, Founder & CEO

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02The problem

Recruiting remains fragmented, manual and dependent on access

Athletes

Film lives across Instagram, YouTube and Hudl
Outreach happens through email, DMs and agencies
Players cannot easily see which teams need them
International talent often lacks access to the right network
Recruiting profiles lose value after one recruiting cycle

Coaches

Athlete information comes from disconnected sources
Recruiting is managed across spreadsheets, email and WhatsApp
Roster needs change faster than coaches can scout
Programs struggle to find qualified international players
Existing tools rarely follow the complete workflow

03Why now

Athletic recruiting is becoming global, digital and data-driven

Professionals got a network of record. Athletes never did — even though the audience is enormous and already publishing film.

0B+

LinkedIn members — the professional network of record. No equivalent exists for athletes.

LinkedIn Pressroom / Microsoft, 2026

0M

People playing organized football worldwide — one sport alone.

FIFA Big Count

0M

U.S. high-school athletes, and recruiting for them is remote-first and video-first.

NFHS 2024–25

$0B+

Spent by U.S. families on youth sports every year, chasing visibility and placement.

Aspen Institute Project Play, 2025

Athletes already publish film

Short-form video builds visibility. It needs a durable recruiting identity behind it.

Recruiting is remote

Coaches evaluate athletes on screens before they ever see them in person.

Rosters turn over continuously

Transfer movement keeps roster gaps open year-round, not one season.

Software takes the repetitive work

Once the workflow is real, AI can triage scouting and follow-up. Workflow first.

04The Ryval network

One network connects athletic identity, discovery and recruiting

Athlete experience

Verified sports profile
Feed and performance Reels
Global opportunities
Coach activity and messages
Application and career tracking

Coach experience

Current roster management
Future roster-gap visibility
Quick Scout
Opportunities and applicants
Shared recruiting pipeline

05Product today Live product

The athlete side is live — identity, film and opportunities in one app

Build a recruiting identity

Verified profile · stats · GPA · film

Ryval feed — A feed built for recruiting

Ryval performance Reels — Get discovered through content

Ryval opportunities with AI matches — Find relevant opportunities

05Product today Live product

The coach side is live too — recruit from one workspace

Ryval publish roster need — Publish real roster needs

Ryval applicant pipeline — Manage the pipeline

Ryval verified university page — Verified programs and rosters

06Focus and expansion

College recruiting creates the foundation for a global sports network

Stage 1 · Now

Recruiting network

The wedge.

College athletes and coaches
Verified profiles and film
Roster needs and applications
Commitments on the network

Stage 2

Global pathways

Same identity, more destinations.

Universities and private schools
Gap-year programs and academies
European clubs
Professional opportunities

Stage 3

Sports marketplace

Services attach to the graph.

Private trainers
Showcases and camps
Nutritionists and analysts
Booking and promotion

Stage 4

Recruiting agents

Human-approved execution.

Identify roster needs
Recommend athletes
Draft outreach
Manage follow-ups

07Early network traction

A live recruiting network with a distribution path already in motion

Live production as of 14 Sep 2026. 113 accounts total (84 athletes, 27 coaches). WAU / MAU from last-seen push tokens. Monthly growth is new users vs the prior 30 days (75 vs 24).

Distribution already in reach

Live iOS and Android recruiting product
VentureSportsUSA athlete and coach network
Founder relationships from college and professional soccer
Direct coach onboarding into verified programs
14 verified NCAA / NAIA men's soccer programs, including Division I
Athletes already on the network from the U.S., UAE, Portugal, Canada and Egypt
Free coach tools that create opportunities for athletes

School logos, names and quotes appear only with permission.

08The athletic opportunity graph

Every recruiting action improves Ryval’s opportunity graph

01 Athletes

More complete identities and film make the network useful to coaches.

02 Coaches

More coaches publish real roster needs and evaluate athletes in-product.

03 Activity

Saves, passes, messages, applications and offers become matching data.

04 Outcomes

Placements pull the next athletes and organizations onto Ryval.

Proprietary layer

Foundation models are available to everyone. The graph is not.

Verified athlete and coach identities Team and program relationships Current and historical rosters Published and private roster needs Athlete preferences Profile and film engagement Coach saves, passes and evaluations Messages, applications and offers Commitments and placement outcomes Human-approved agent actions later

09Revenue model

Start with athlete software. Expand when the network is liquid.

Initial revenue

Ryval Pro for athletes

$19.99 / month

Planned · payments not the growth story yet

Advanced recruiting visibility
Premium opportunity tools
Analytics
AI assistance
Application management

Relevant once profiles, film and real opportunities are consistently on the network.

Expansion revenue

Organization software, then marketplace

Organization software

Staff recruiting workspaces
Roster management
Recruiting intelligence
Applicant and pipeline tools

Marketplace

Booking fees
Transaction percentage
Promoted opportunities
Trainer and provider subscriptions

Organization software follows coach liquidity. Marketplace follows trusted placements. Do not sell five businesses at once.

10Market opportunity

Bottom-up from athletes, programs and take rate — not the sports industry

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Youth footballers under 18 worldwide — soccer alone

FIFA Big Count

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U.S. high-school soccer participants

NFHS 2024–25

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NCAA championship-sport student-athletes

NCAA, Sep 2025

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NAIA student-athletes across 250 member schools

NAIA 2025–26

SOM · 3 to 5 years

$7.2M

Soccer-first recruiting network

25,000 paid athletes × $239.88 = $6.0M
400 programs × $3,000 = $1.2M

25,000 is 5.7% of 438,978 recruiting-age U.S. high-school soccer athletes (half of 877,956 NFHS soccer participants).

NFHS 2024–25 via NCAA probability tables. Price is planned Ryval Pro.

SAM

$66M

U.S. college recruiting software

200,000 paid athletes × $239.88 = $48.0M
5,000 teams × $3,600 = $18.0M

200,000 is 4.8% of ~4.13M high-school juniors and seniors (half of 8.27M NFHS participants). 5,000 teams is 25% of 19,928 NCAA championship-sport teams.

NFHS 2024–25. NCAA participation release, Sep 2025. NAIA’s 87,299 athletes not yet counted.

TAM

$510M

Global recruiting, development, services

1.5M paid athletes × $239.88 = $360M
25,000 orgs × $3,600 = $90M
$500M services GMV × 12% take = $60M

Against 265M global footballers (22M youth) and $40B+ annual U.S. family youth-sports spend, 1.5M paid identities is a small share of one sport.

FIFA Big Count; FIFA Professional Football Report 2023 (128,694 pros, 3,986 clubs); Aspen Institute 2025.

11Distribution strategy

Existing sports relationships reduce the marketplace cold start

Get coaches to publish real opportunities first. Athletes follow the work.

01

Verify coaches and programs

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Publish real roster needs

03

Onboard athletes around those needs

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Turn successful programs into partners

05

Repeat by sport and geography

Channels we already have

VentureSportsUSA athlete and coach network
Founder relationships from college and professional soccer
Direct coach onboarding
Club, academy and agency partnerships
Athlete ambassador and affiliate model
Country-specific expansion partners

Acquisition math to add next

Cost per athlete
Cost per verified coach
Invite conversion
Profile completion and film upload
Weekly retention
Referral rate

12Competitive position

Adjacent winners are billion-dollar companies. No one owns the recruiting network.

Category	Examples	Primary focus	Scale / value signal	Gap Ryval fills
Video and scouting	Hudl, Wyscout	Film, analysis, professional scouting	300k+ teams, 180 countries · >$767M implied¹	Film attached to identity, needs and applications
College recruiting	NCSA (IMG Academy), SportsRecruits	College placement and paid advisory	IMG Academy sold for $1.25B (2023)	Software network, not a high-touch sales package
Team operations	Teamworks	Ops and performance software for elite teams	$1B+ valuation · $235M Series F (2025)	The athlete-facing network and open recruiting market
Social identity	LinkedIn, Instagram	Identity, content, networking	1.3B+ members · $26.2B acquisition (2016)	Recruiting workflow and roster software for sport
Ryval	Ryval	Global identity, discovery, recruiting workflow, marketplace path	The open seat	One graph across the full career, not one cycle

¹ Nelnet 10-K 2024: ~22% preferred stake carried at $168.7M, fair value “significantly greater.” Other figures: Reuters, Endeavor, Microsoft.

Global scope Identity beyond one recruiting cycle Content connected to opportunities Coach roster and recruiting software Marketplace expansion Outcome data Agentic execution later

13Team

Founder-market fit from both sides of the recruiting table

Andrew Jayyosi

Founder & CEO

NCAA athlete

Division I and Division II playing experience.

Professional soccer

Played in France. Understands international placement.

Recruiting and agency

Has sat with athletes, families and coaches on the placement side.

Sales director

Used to building pipelines, not just product surfaces.

Existing relationships

Athletes, coaches and international contacts already in motion.

The hiring gap

Product architecture, backend reliability, data systems and AI still need a committed technical lead.

AAppendix · Market sources

Every figure has a source or a labeled assumption

Named sources

NCAA: 554,298 championship-sport student-athletes and 19,928 teams in 2024–25
NFHS 2024–25: 8,266,244 high-school participants; 877,956 in soccer
NAIA 2025–26: 250 members and 87,299 student-athletes
FIFA Big Count: 265M players worldwide, 22M youth under 18
FIFA Professional Football Report 2023: 128,694 professional male players, 3,986 clubs
Aspen Institute Project Play 2025: $40B+ annual U.S. family spend on youth sports
LinkedIn Pressroom / Microsoft: 1.3B+ members (2026); acquired for $26.2B (2016)
Reuters: Teamworks $1B+ valuation, $235M Series F (Jun 2025)
Endeavor: IMG Academy (NCSA parent) sold to BPEA EQT for $1.25B (2023)
Nelnet 10-K 2024: ~22% Hudl stake at $168.7M carrying value, fair value “significantly greater” (implies >$767M)

Labeled assumptions

Recruiting-age high-school athletes ≈ 50% of participants (juniors and seniors)
Ryval Pro = $19.99 × 12 = $239.88, planned until payments are live
Organization contract = $3,000–$3,600 / year, not yet sold
SOM paid conversion = 5.7% of recruiting-age U.S. soccer
SAM paid conversion = 4.8% of U.S. high-school juniors and seniors
Marketplace take rate = 12% on $500M assumed services GMV
FIFA Big Count is dated (2006); the current player base is likely larger. Used as a conservative floor.

RYVAL

Athletes get discovered. Teams build their next roster.

Andrew Jayyosi, Founder & CEO · Confidential