• Clipperton acted as the sole financial advisor to the founders and shareholders of SkillCorner, the leading global provider of single-camera tracking data and performance analytics in football, basketball, and American football, on its strategic growth investment, Silversmith Capital Partners, a tier-1 US growth equity investor. This is the first investment of the Silversmith platform in France.
• The partnership marks a major milestone for SkillCorner as it deepens its presence in key markets and builds on its leadership in AI-driven sports intelligence. With Silversmith’s backing, the company is poised to accelerate product innovation and deliver even greater value to teams and leagues worldwide.
• The transaction represents a key milestone for Clipperton’s recently established U.S. platform and underscores the firm’s ability to execute high-profile cross-border transactions involving leading American investors.

Our Client

• Since being founded in Paris in 2016 by Hugo Bordigoni and Charles Montmaneix, SkillCorner has grown into the industry leader in AI-driven sports data, providing automated player and ball tracking (including extrapolation of off-camera player position) and game intelligence from any single camera source.
• With data coverage across soccer, basketball, and American football, from over 180 competitions worldwide, SkillCorner’s proprietary AI and computer vision technology generate the most advanced, scalable, and actionable data in the industry.
• Today, its technology is trusted by more than 300 organizations worldwide, including many of the world’s top soccer clubs. SkillCorner is now rapidly expanding across basketball and American football, across professional and collegiate organizations.

Deal Rationale

• With this investment, SkillCorner plans to scale its data engineering and product development teams, deepen its footprint in North America, and enhance its suite of data products that are redefining performance analysis, scouting, and recruitment workflows.
• SkillCorner will continue to operate independently from its headquarters in Paris, supported by a growing global team of more than one hundred staff focused on data quality, product innovation, and supporting the world’s leading teams and leagues in turning advanced tracking data into actionable insights. 
• “This investment will enable us to strengthen our data engineering capabilities, accelerate our multi-sport expansion in North America, and continue delivering innovative metrics that help teams make better decisions in player recruitment, development, and team strategy,” stated Hugo Bordigoni, Co-Founder and CEO of SkillCorner.

Clipperton’s strong track record in partnering with leading U.S. investors in technology buyout and growth transactions

This landmark deal adds to a series of recent international tech growth transactions advised by Clipperton, including N2F’s strategic growth investment by FTV Capital and Peter Park’s strategic growth investment by Great Hill Partners.

The transaction represents a key milestone for Clipperton’s recently established U.S. platform, and underscores the firm’s ability to execute high-profile cross-border transactions involving leading American investors, following the recent appointments of Managing Partners Emily Anderson and Richard Hooper in New York.

Deal Team 

• Thibaut Revel, Managing Partner
• Nicolas von Bülow, Managing Partner
• Ismail Roqaichaoui, Associate
• Paolo Crippa, Analyst

About Clipperton

Clipperton is a leading pan-European investment bank dedicated to technology and growth companies, with offices in Paris, New York, Berlin, Munich, London, and Amsterdam, as well as partnerships in Switzerland, China, Italy, and Spain. We provide strategic and financial advisory services to entrepreneurs, corporates, and top-tier investors in Europe who are looking to execute strategic M&A, private equity, private placements, and debt financing transactions. Founded in 2003, we have completed over 500 deals with fast-growing technology businesses, blue-chip corporates, and renowned financial investors.