Built by people who grew up on the touchline and never left it
The people who built Recap™ have worked at the top of broadcast sport, brand film and the consumer software underneath both. Grassroots football is held to the same standard.
Robin Ashford
Founder & CEO
Rob started his career in Product Marketing at Apple and has since become a serial media-tech entrepreneur who has founded, scaled and exited multiple ventures. These include a $20M sale to the leading social video platform and a $130M merger with an industry leader, now valued in excess of $300M. His career is defined by innovation in the studio and streaming space, in partnership with the major Hollywood studios and cloud providers like AWS and Google.
Simon Tucker
Founder & CTO
Simon is responsible for the full technical stack: the iOS capture pipeline, the cloud video infrastructure, and the tools that let clubs mark goals and key moments and turn raw grassroots match footage into shareable highlights. A prolific native iOS and macOS developer, he has independently shipped and run a portfolio of pro-audio and live-events apps, bringing speed and engineering rigour to a hard, infrastructure-heavy problem.
Joel Mishcon
Founder & Investments
As Founder, Joel manages investor relations for Recap™ and is responsible for the base the company has today. He founded Chrome Productions in 2002 at twenty-four, after starting out as an extreme sports filmmaker, and is still its Group CEO. As director, producer and executive producer he has made work for Ford, Christie's, Sotheby's and TUI, and for Arsenal, Manchester City Women, the San Francisco 49ers and the UEFA Europa League. He has keynoted at SXSW and IBC.
Stephen Parker
Founder
As Founder, Stephen guides Recap™'s creative strategy, drawing on 15 years as an award-winning creative, writer and director. He is Executive Creative Director at Chrome Productions, where he has written and directed work for Ford, Gucci, Red Bull, Heineken, Aston Martin, Christie's and TUI, with talent including Julia Roberts, Jeremy Irons, Idris Elba and Cara Delevingne. Recent work includes the global launches of the Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning, built around a virtual production in Unreal Engine in Los Angeles.
Gareth Joseph
Head of Club Support
Gareth has spent his career turning complicated systems into something a person can actually use, across film, television, software and data services, and in more than thirty countries. He has run the relationships between world-leading brands and their customers, and he answers a club the way he would want to be answered himself. He played basketball to a good level when he was younger. He knows what a team needs from the person on the other end.
Darrell Currie
Lead Commentator
After 25 years of working in sports broadcasting Darrell knows what every second should sound like. Whether it's the game changing moment or defining strike of the ball, he calls it how he sees it. Darrell's been there and experienced it all, from World Cups and Champions League Finals to grassroots football, he loves every minute of it. Pitchside too he's interviewed the very best. He blends the know-how with the groundbreaking tech. Authenticity is the word.
Backed by
The programmes putting compute, capital and tooling behind Recap™.
Google for Startups
Turning ninety minutes of phone footage into one highlight takes real compute. Google Cloud runs that work and the programme carries the bill while we scale.
Google for Startups
a16z, VC Select
a16z and Google jointly pick a handful of AI companies to back each year. Recap™ came through that process, with capital and cloud on the other side of it.
a16z, VC Select
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs backs the companies building with generated voice. Recap™ holds one of their grants, and it pays for the audio under every highlight the app cuts.
ElevenLabs