Area served Worldwide Industry Cricket Current status Active Founded 2010 | Founder(s) Simon Baker Website www.crichq.com Headquarters Wellington Type of business Private | |
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CricHQ is a digital platform for sport which combines competition management and administration software with live scoring and statistics for cricket clubs. It is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and was set up by CEO Simon Baker and former New Zealand cricketers Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum. It manages the administration of cricket test countries New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe. A number of other national governing bodies also use its services from club level upwards (see National Governing Bodies section below).
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The company provides a range of digital services to cricket organisations that typically use paper-based administration and scoring. The services include instant updates for fans, performance insights for coaches and the ability to set up cricket-related social networks. It also makes it easier to register players, organise competition draws and analyse demographics of sport participants.
When the app was launched it was briefly one of the world's most downloaded sporting apps and since then it has amassed over 1 million Facebook fans.
The company has been described as "one of New Zealand’s largely unsung tech success stories" by one of New Zealand's leading technology journalists.
In October 2016, CricHQ's then-Executive Chair, Mike Loftus, was invited to visit India with New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, as part of a trade delegation.
In December 2016, former Saatchi & Saatchi Chair and CEO Kevin Roberts (businessman) was appointed as Chair of CricHQ's board.
Investment
In June 2015 CricHQ raised US$10m from Singapore private equity firm Tembusu Partners to expand globally including a doubling of staff in India, the world's largest cricketing nation.
In September 2016 it was revealed that CricHQ was seeking further investment of US$10M and was in discussions with investment bankers in the United States and United Kingdom. It also stated that the company was valued at US$70M while forecast to make a loss of more than US$4m in the 2016/17 financial year.
Incoming Chair Kevin Roberts (businessman) revealed that he had invested a "seven figure" sum in the company in December 2016.
National Governing Bodies
As well as having a partnership with the International Cricket Council, CricHQ signed Hong Kong as its 50th cricketing National Governing Body in August 2016. The full list of National Governing Bodies that CricHQ has signed with is: