Lineal was founded by former professional player and investor Manu Lecomte and entrepreneur/coach David Dawoud to create a league structure and stage for 1v1 basketball. The company runs live events with players and audiences and reports sharp recent growth in social engagement (250K views in two weeks versus 30K the prior month). Its product is a standardized, scalable 1v1 competition format the founders plan to expand city to city and later into other 1v1 sports. The team emphasizes building a platform to create new basketball superstars and to offer unique brand-placement opportunities. Founders have committed full-time focus to the venture and intend to use early funding to grow events, audiences and partnerships.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2026