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Ben Borton

Ben Borton

Co-Founder & CRO, PodPlay Technologies

Mr. Borton is a Co-Founder and CRO of PodPlay Technologies responsible for go-to-market strategy and managing our Sales and Marketing teams. He is also the Chief Strategy Officer and was the first outside investor in PodPlay’s parent company PingPod Inc. Mr. Borton was previously Head of Digital Fund Services at Figure Technologies from February 2020 to July 2022, a Partner at Mountaineer Partners from January 2012 to December 2019, and a Partner at MM Capital from 2009 to 2011. He has been a Founder/Partner in multiple investment management firms during his career and an active technology angel investor. Mr. Borton received a Masters’ degree from the University of Chicago and a BA in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Recent Posts

PodPlay x PB Vision: Raising the AI Video Analysis Bar for Pickleball Clubs

We’re excited to announce our integration with PB Vision, the best-in-class AI video analysis platform for pickleball—now natively integrated into PodPlay. Most integrations add complexity. This one does the opposite.

Marty Supreme and the Transition from Starting Up to Scaling Up

Every great company has a Marty Supreme phase. It’s intense. It’s personal. It’s unbeatable—and unscalable.The companies that endure don’t abandon that phase. They encode it.

PICKLETILE™ x PodPlay: Unlocking the Autonomous Outdoor Pickleball Experience

Autonomous experiences have flourished indoors, where we can control for weather, heat, and access. Outdoors–the largest segment of pickleball play–remained unsolved. The result: operators were forced to choose between the flexibility of outdoor courts and the efficiency of automation. Until now. PICKLETILE™ x PodPlay unlocks outdoor autonomous pickleball.

Other Team Members

Maximilian Kogler

Maximilian Kogler

Co-Founder & CEO

Ilya Rivkin

Ilya Rivkin

Co-Founder & CTO

Kyle Nielson

Kyle Nielson

Global Head of Customer Success