Rick Plnk
Seattle, WA (USA)
Role(s):
Other
eSwing Golf Technologies, LLC
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Location:
Seattle
Industry:
Sports/Recreation
Year Founded:
2006
Number Employees:
INVALID
Business Stage:
Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type:
Limited Partnership
Description:
e*Swing Golf Technologies, LLC is a WA company based in Seattle, WA. Its founder and CEO is Rick Plank, who has invented, developed, and recently received U.S. Patent No. 7,327,193 for an electronic golf swing analyzer, called e*Swing. The device incorporates unique opto-acoustic technology (infrared and ultrasonic sensors) to "see" the golf club head at impact and display swing data for velocity, swing path, face angle and swing tempo on an integrated LCD . The ball's trajectory is also displayed in a 3D plot on an attached laptop or PC.
The company is looking to raise between $1.0M and $1.5M to move into production and start an aggressive Sales and Marketing campaign.
Four large distinct target markets have been identified, which include: (1) 10,000,000 U.S. avid golfers, who w