We love fantasy sports
TrophyRoom takes the best parts of fantasy football, shaves off the complexities and focuses more on the thrill of the live matches and puts a card game as the cherry on top. The result is a nail-biting social experience for everyone who loves football.
Football entertainment for the future
Our vision
Our vision is to be the most loved digital sports brand, by blurring the line between games and the real world and bringing fun and excitement to everyone who loves sports.
Our mission
Our mission is to build and develop the most loved sports companion apps, mixing elements of management simulation with real world elements and events, making it more fun to watch a game and as a consequence, almost impossible for fans to watch a game without also using our apps.
Why we got started
Fantasy sports is hot. But surprisingly stale. Not much has happened in the industry for the past 10 years. Time to shake it up a bit. TrophyRoom is fantasy sports 2.0.
Our Founders
The people behind TrophyRoom comprise a nice cross-section of the football community: die hard fans, casual spectators, tech evangelists, product and marketing masterminds and so on. We all came together because we share the same vision and… simply because we like each other.
Lean passion
We believe in keeping things simple and removing nonsense rules and bureaucracy that get in the way of true greatness. We’re a small, fast and location-agnostic team that take rapid decisions and build what we build fueled by passion.
Seed funded and ready to go
We’ve done a couple of seed investment rounds and are currently in a soft launch stage in a few test markets.
Meet the team
Akhila A D
Payments Lead
Akhila has more than five years experience of all things payments and customer excellence. She’s a high-energy professional with vast experience of payments integrations, gateways, KYC processes, QA and support with a past in online gaming.
Huy Nguyen
CTO
Huy has more than 12 years experience of leading successful development teams focusing on mobile products. He has a strong software engineering background and a BS and MS in Computer Science from Ho Chi Minh CIty University of Information Technology.
Danh Duong
Senior Android Developer
Danh is an experienced and talented
Android and Java Developer with
more than 10 years experience in the
field.
Thu Bui
Senior DevOps Engineer
Experienced, into the finer details and the big picture alike, Thu is our DevOps magician, making sure all systems are a-go.
Thien Nguyen
Senior Java Developer
An experienced Technical Leader and Java Developer with a strong background in developing high-performance real time big data services.
Kha Luong
Java Developer
Newly graduated from the Academy Of Cryptography Techniques and with merits from the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Kha is a talented and hungry Java Developer.
An Nguyen
Quality Assurance
Our newest tech team member, An, is a true gamer. Thus, it only makes sense he’s got experience from working with quality assurance for famous titles such as Fifa Online and PUBG. Welcome to the team, An!
Meet the board
Zacharias Tegefeldt
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Zach has 20+ years combined experience of sales, marketing, product development and leadership. 8 years in gaming startups, building successful product and marketing teams. Zach is a doer with a strategic knack and a deep understanding of what makes games fun and sticky. He’s also a successful team-builder working with an autonomous Scandinavian leadership style, where people are given equal doses freedom and responsibility. Zach is leading the product development and overall operations as CEO.
Greg Tsakiris
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Greg is a serial entrepreneur with many past board and CEO positions. He has several exits under his belt. Greg was first in Sweden introducing e-learning in the 90s and has since then focused more on investments and building a successful IT consultancy company from scratch. Greg has been working closely with angel and seed investments for TrophyRoom, making sure that the company had the fuel needed to realize its vision. He’s also our Chief Strategy Officer.
Soe Moe Oo
Co-Founder
Moe comes from several years in the cleantech industry where he also made a significant exit from Tricorona, previously listed on the Nasdaq OMX. He went on to found a tech VC fund, focusing on South East Asian disruptive early stage tech companies. Moe is well-versed in all things legal and finance-related and is a master negotiator, focusing on partnerships and legal matters for TrophyRoom.
Niels von Zweigbergk
Founding Investor
Niels has several years experience of being a CEO, board member and angel investor. Niels’ most recent exit was from Tricorona, a listed carbon asset management company for which he was a Co-Founder and CEO. He has a significant professional network across Asia and Europe and is a founding investor in TrophyRoom.
Björn Evers
Founding Investor
Björn built a career in the online space, venturing into several different industries including gaming, dating, ID verifications, management consulting and more. He’s got several years experience of being a CEO and board member for a number of successful companies. Co-founder of gamification company Insert Coin and a founding investor in TrophyRoom.
What’s coming?
Product road map
Q1
- Updated user interface with improved main navigation and header inventory.
- New points system.
- Weekly leaderboards.
Q2
- New card effects – see which card affects which player in your lineup.
- Onboarding tutorial.
- Performance optimization.
- Increase group challenge size from 11 to 50 participants.
- Missions – complete missions and win gift cards.
Q3
- Challenge invitation email – get an email when someone challenges you.
- Fixtures and livescores – keep track of all the important matches and see the livescores.
- New production environment – faster servers.
- Multi-language support. Add Hindi as language.
Q4
- Card shop – re-stock cards if you run out.
- Quests – complete tasks and be rewarded with cards and more.
- Card rebalance.
- New tactics cards.
Q1
- New tactics cards.
- New quests.
- UI improvements.
- Performance improvements.
Q2
- New tactics cards.
- New quests.
- Real money version private beta.
Q3
- Real money version soft launch for India.
- New game lobby.
Q4
- New universal timeline
- FIFA World Cup 2022 campaign