A connected portfolio of innovative pickleball brands.
Net Gains builds digital pickleball properties that compound on each other through shared audiences, integrated data, and overlapping workflows. Each brand strengthens the next.
Kyle Yates
2024 Pickleball Hall of Fame Inductee · Founding Partner, Net Gains, Inc.
The Map
Each brand strengthens the next.
Net Gains builds a connected portfolio of digital pickleball brands engineered to compound on each other through shared audiences, integrated data, and overlapping workflows. Every new user, partner, and engagement loop lowers acquisition cost, deepens retention, and lifts lifetime value across the entire portfolio. The result is an ecosystem in which growth in any single brand accelerates growth across all of them.
Why now
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America.
The players are here, the category is compounding, and the digital layer is still wide open. Net Gains is building for where the sport is going, not where it has been.
19.8M
US players in 2024
311%
Three year growth
~$1.5B
Pickleball market today
Source: 2026 Pickleball Travel Industry Report.
Portfolio Scale
Six active products in early validation, each built to feed and be fed by the others. Growth in any one accelerates growth across all of them.
Execution Model
Growth comes from repeatable adoption wedges: clubs, teams, captains, and collegiate programs. Capital is deployed against measurable adoption, not assumptions.
Operational Discipline
A capital efficient cost base that flexes up with traction. Every dollar is allocated against a specific adoption signal.
A portfolio engineered into a single compounding asset.
In market
Proof that the portfolio ships.
Courtside Living is a pickleball travel and tours marketplace, already live in market. It connects players with curated destination experiences and gives operators distribution and data in a fast emerging category.
Through Rally UP Tours it runs customized international trips for college and high school pickleball programs, and it publishes the 2026 Pickleball Travel Industry Report for operators entering the space.
- A tour marketplace filtered by destination, skill level, and price
- Rally UP Tours for collegiate and high school programs
- The 2026 Pickleball Travel Industry Report
Founder
Scott Weiss
Founder and CEO, Net Gains
30 year B2B executive
Proven strength in sales, contract law, and high stakes business negotiation.
Lifelong athlete and racer
Former collegiate ski racer and semi pro mountain bike racer, with sponsorship and programming experience for a semi professional team.
Pickleball founder
Conceived and brought a pickleball gear brand to market, co created a mental health focused pickleball initiative, and has sponsored and mentored elite athletes.
Innovative pickleball training gear: paddles, balls, and tools to sharpen your game.
A mental well being initiative bringing players together through the game.
- Board Member, BOCO Pickleball Club
- Founder, PickleFlow Mindset Performance Training
- Coach and Mentor, University of Colorado Boulder Pickleball Team
We are building Net Gains to make our digital pickleball life social and meaningful, because a connective pickleball journey matters as much as any solo win.Request the deck
Partners and Advisors
Operators and champions who have built, scaled, and won at the highest levels of the sport.
Kyle Yates
Founding Partner
- 2024 Pickleball Hall of Fame inductee
- 7 US Open pro doubles titles and 4 USAPA Nationals golds
- Former World Pickleball Federation number one in men's doubles
- Co owner of 6 plus Colorado Picklr franchises
Dr. Rommie Maxey
Strategic Advisor
- 2024 Pickleball Hall of Fame inductee
- Co owner of the Houston Hammers professional team
- Deep operational insight across facility ownership and pro level play
- Frequent keynote and clinic leader at major events worldwide
Partnership
Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating
Net Gains holds a 3 year licensing agreement with DUPR.
DUPR is the most widely accepted, global rating system used to evaluate a pickleball player's true skill level. Developed in 2021, it serves as the official rating system for USA Pickleball events, major professional tours, collegiate programs, and local clubs worldwide.
- Official rating system for USA Pickleball events
- Used across major professional tours
- Adopted by collegiate programs and clubs worldwide
- Developed in 2021
Partnerships
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We are currently reviewing partners for our platform. If you feel you would be a good fit, reach out and we would love to connect.
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Investors
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