| Website | accelgolf.com |
| Blog | blog.accelgolf.com |
| @accelgolf | |
| Category | Mobile/Wireless |
| Employees | 5 |
| Founded | 8/08 |
| Description | Golf-game improvement app |
| Total | $307k |
| Seed, 9/09 TechStars | $18k |
| Grant, 4/08 University of Southern Maine | $10k |
| Grant, 2008 Maine Technology Institute | $24k |
| Grant, 2008 Queen's University | C$15k |
| Grant, 2008 Libra Future Fund | $5k |
| Debt, 2009 Maine Technology Institute | $235k |
AccelGolf helps users with their stroke tracking, range-finding, and personalized improvement of their golf games. The company showed off their BlackBerry and iPhone applications and explained that the heart of their system is really the community of avid golfers who are now connecting and building their own social network. AccelGolf offers personalized improvement tips by analyzing strokes of golfers who are just slightly better than you, and presenting areas for improvement based on your past performance.
AccelGolf suggests which club to use, and where to place the shot, based on your past performance on a specific course. In one example the company showed the iPhone application calculating odds based on past performance for landing a risky shot over a sand trap on a dog leg left. AccelGolf already has 70% of all golf courses loaded in their system. They use the GPS on your phone to determine your position and calculate distance to the pin.
