In 2004, a Duke football lineman walked into a classroom with more bruises than free time and built a digital calendar so his coaches would stop scheduling lifts like sadistic game shows. That student-athlete was Zach Maurides, and what started as a calendar turned into Teamworks, the Operating System for Sports™, a platform now trusted by every NFL team, most major league franchises, and more Olympic federations than the IOC could alphabetize.
Fast forward to June 17, 2025. Teamworks just locked in a $235 million Series F, led once again by Dragoneer Investment Group, pushing its pre-money valuation north of $1 billion. Call it a milestone. Call it validation. Just don’t call it luck. This is what happens when a team plays chess while the rest of the industry is running ladder drills.
Credit where it’s due: Zach Maurides, Founder and CEO, still calls plays like he’s on the field. Shaun Powell, Co-Founder and Lead Architect, built the backbone of the platform before “cloud” was more than weather. And James Coffos, the CTO, is now scaling that vision into a 24/7/365 global infrastructure that supports 6,500+ elite teams and facilitates 18 million athlete sessions a month. No typo. Just traction.
With offices in 11 countries, and partnerships across the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Premier League, and 99% of NCAA Division I, Teamworks didn’t just build a product. They built the industry standard. And then bought the future, eleven acquisitions since 2022, most recently Telemetry Sports, now rebranded as Teamworks Coaching, already used by 80% of NFL teams. Data is currency. And Teamworks is the central bank.
Meanwhile, the platform continues to evolve across four product pillars: Personnel, Performance, Coaching, and Operations. Whether it’s Teamworks Hub syncing logistics, Teamworks Intelligence (formerly Zelus) running predictive models, or a consolidated mobile app dropping real-time alerts with machine learning precision, this isn’t sports tech. It’s mission control for modern athletics.
The playbook from this $235M round? Build something real, serve a high-performance market, and scale without losing your core. While others chase hype, Teamworks is too busy executing. With AI powering insights, and a customer base stretching from Durham to Doha, they’re not playing catch-up. They’re setting the pace.
