Dartfish

Route de la Fonderie 6
Case postale 53
1705 Fribourg 5
Switzerland
www.dartfish.com

Founders:
Jean-Marie AYER, Serge AYER, Victor BERGONZOLI, Martin VETTERLI,
Emmanuel REUSENS

Company Description:
Dartfish specializes in the development of performance enhancing video applications. The technology was originally developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Today the company has a staff of 30 employees, is headquartered in Fribourg, Switzerland and maintains fully owned subsidiaries in Atlanta USA and in Nice France. In addition, Dartfish is represented in all continents through distributors.

Dartfish is currently concentrating on broadcast and training solutions. The company has an installed base of over 7’000 clients in the sports, educational and physical medicine markets. The company has also partnered with a large number of the high performance sports organizations

Product: DARTFISH SOFTWARE SUITE
Dartfish software integrates video into training and education. It uses video during training for immediate visual feedback and as a basis for trainer-athlete communication. After training tools analyze, compare and highlight performances, techniques, trajectories, and positions and allows shared analyses across different formats.

Market Opportunity:
The untapped market of process and performance improvement using video technology in a number of market segments such as sports expert markets, physical education, classroom education, physical therapy and recovery, and podology markets.

The company is currently concentrated in the development of the high-end expert markets. It then plans to “move down” market to larger consumer markets, this in close interaction and cooperation with its expert clients. It will then integrate content and “domain knowledge” into its product and market range.

Competitors:
Pinacle Systems, V1, Astar, Gasp, Simi