Korrio Adds $4.6M to Expand Youth Sports Sites

Korrio, the Seattle-based startup that offers websites to help grownups organize youth sports leagues, has raised another $4.6 million from existing investors. That brings the total venture investment in the company to nearly $8 million.

Korrio, founded in 2009, offers an online service corrals game and practice updates, and can also handle team registration, payments, and even creating rosters.

The startup has focused mostly on building a user base among youth soccer leagues—in a news release, founder and CEO Steve Goldman says the company’s service is used by “youth soccer leagues, teams, and clubs in more than 27 states and three countries.”

With the new investment, Korrio says it plans to expand into other sports beyond soccer. Existing investors contributed the cash, including Ignition Partners, which led Korrio’s $3.3 million Series A round in January 2011. Angel investors in the company have included former Starbucks operations chief Martin Coles and retired NFL and University of Washington quarterback Damon Huard.

Youth sports websites are an interesting next move for Goldman, who was previously CEO of Isilon Systems and a senior vice president at F5 Networks. The company has an office in Boston, along with its headquarters in Seattle.

Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.