Avoli Marks 1-Year Anniversary With New Volleyball Athletes, First Retail Partner and Close of $2.1M Funding Round
2024年8月7日 - 9:17AM
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- Avoli’s $2.1M seed round included investments from athletic
footwear founders, manufacturers, volleyball industry professionals
and professional investors
- Seven of the top women’s college volleyball athletes have
signed with Avoli, and will be featured in the brand’s marketing
efforts throughout the 2024 season
- Avoli recently entered an exclusive partnership with leading
sports retailer SCHEELS, making its footwear available for a
limited time at select stores across the U.S.
Avoli, the first, and only, athletic brand dedicated exclusively
to the performance needs and aspirations of women and girl
volleyball athletes, closed its initial funding round which had
originally been targeted at $1.5M. The company’s initial seed round
raised over $2.1M with investments coming from a range of investors
including athletic footwear founders and manufacturers, volleyball
industry professionals, and professional investors. The proceeds
will fund working capital and growth initiatives including new
strategic hires, increased brand marketing and broadening the
availability of its market-leading footwear.
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Avoli Marks 1-Year Anniversary with New
Volleyball Athletes, First Retail Partner and Close of $2.1M
Funding Round (Graphic: Business Wire)
The angel investors who have made personal investments in Avoli
come from the arenas of tech, consumer products, volleyball, and
respected founders in footwear manufacturing and innovation. They
include: Ho Nam (Managing Director and Co-Founder at Altos
Ventures), Blythe Jack (former Managing Director at both TSG
Consumer Partners and Rosewood Capital), and Pete Saperstone
(Partner at Greycroft Partners).
Avoli has also partnered with leading sports retailer SCHEELS to
exclusively sell Avoli footwear in select storefronts across the
United States. As a part of the partnership, a variety of colorways
of the Avoli VOL I and Avoli VOL II are now available at the
following SCHEELS locations: Billings, MT, Boise, ID, Eden Prairie,
MN, Johnstown, CO, Lincoln, NE, Omaha, NE, Overland Park, KS, and
The Colony, TX (Dallas).
"In our first year as a company, we’ve seen an unprecedented
demand for our footwear amongst the volleyball community, and our
partnership with SCHEELS will make Avoli shoes more widely
accessible to women and girl athletes around the country," said
Rick Anguilla, Co-founder of Avoli. "SCHEELS’ dedication to quality
and an excellent customer experience aligns perfectly with our
mission at Avoli, and we look forward to working together to grow
the sport of volleyball.”
With volleyball being the most popular team sport for girls in
the U.S., the availability of Avoli products at select SCHEELS
locations will provide convenient access to high-performance
footwear that meets the unique demands of the sport.
“We are proud to partner with Avoli and look forward to bringing
their top-tier volleyball footwear to select stores across the
U.S.,” said SCHEELS. “We look forward to introducing the Avoli
brand to our dedicated customers, and bringing products designed
specifically for women and girl athletes to our shelves.”
Avoli recently signed three of the top women’s college
volleyball athletes - Anna DeBeer (University of
Louisville), Lauren Briseño (Baylor University) and Alia
Williams (University of Dayton) - to be featured in the brand’s
“Hits Different” marketing campaign. Throughout the 2024 volleyball
season, Avoli will be partnering with both former and current
professional and college volleyball athletes across a variety of
activations, including content creation, affiliate marketing,
in-person camps and events, product feedback, internships, and
more. This includes Marianna Singletary (University of
Texas), Delayanie Maple (Indiana University), Reilly
Heinrich (George Washington University), Karly Klaer
(Chicago State University), and more to be announced.
For more information about Avoli and its volleyball footwear,
please visit avoli.com.
ABOUT AVOLI
Born in Portland, Oregon, Avoli (“Ah-Volley”) is the only brand
dedicated solely to the needs and aspirations of women and girl
volleyball athletes. Founded in 2023, Avoli creates volleyball
footwear, apparel and equipment designed specifically to meet the
needs of women and girl athletes on the volleyball court, while
amplifying the culture of volleyball.
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