Personal Assistant Robotics

Keep the rally going.

Vive Tennis is a compact, AI-powered robot that collects tennis balls while you play — so every minute on court is spent on the game, not on cleanup.

  • 308units shipped
  • YoY growth in 2025
  • 12mball-detection range
Vive Tennis robot collecting a tennis ball
The problem

Half of your court time
is spent picking up balls.

Recreational players lose up to 50% of their session bending, chasing and gathering. Court runners are expensive and rarely available. Existing tools are slow, bulky or built for clubs — not the player.

Manual

Bending & chasing

Tedious. Interrupts the game. Hard on aging knees and backs.

Court runners

$15–30 / hour

Expensive, only at premium clubs, and almost never available when you actually need one.

Tubes & brooms

Slow gadgets

Still requires you to walk the court ball-by-ball. Saves your back, not your time.

Existing robots

Bulky & slow

Heavy, club-sized, expensive. You can't take them in your bag to a public court.

The product

Compact. Autonomous.
Built for the player.

Vive Tennis is the first ball-collecting robot small enough to fit in a tennis bag — and smart enough to find, chase and capture balls on its own while you keep playing.

  • Computer-vision ball detection

    Locks onto balls up to 12 m away today — 30+ m on the roadmap.

  • Bag-portable footprint

    Tossed in your kit. Set it courtside. Walks off the job by itself.

  • On-device AI

    Jetson-class compute runs perception and path planning locally — no cloud, no lag.

  • Session analytics

    Track shots, net-clearance and pace. Improve your game between rallies.

Direct from the lab
$599 CAD
One-time payment. Tennis caddy for life.
Order a unit
Vive Tennis robot front view picking up a tennis ball
01
Gripper

5 generations of iteration. Patents to be filed.

Vive Tennis robot side angle
02
Drive system

Tennis-yellow wheels. Designed for hardcourt and clay.

How it works

Set it. Play. Pick up nothing.

Four steps from courtside chaos to a clean baseline. The robot handles the rest.

  1. 01

    Drop & go

    Place Vive on the court. One button. No tethering, no setup.

  2. 02

    Detect

    Cameras scan the court and lock onto every visible ball in seconds.

  3. 03

    Chase & capture

    The robot plans the shortest path and rolls each ball into its hopper.

  4. 04

    Return

    When you call it, Vive returns to your bench and waits for the next set.

Market

A global game.
An untapped market.

Tennis is a $20B+ global sport with passionate, high-income recreational players who already pay for premium racquets, club memberships and coaching. Vive sits squarely inside that wallet.

Our beachhead is the recreational mature player — 35+, club member, owns a $200+ racquet, wears a connected fitness device. The exact customer who already pays for a better game.

87M Players worldwide
17M Players in the USA
1.5M Players in Canada
$1.5B Canada tennis market
The team

Roboticists, designers, operators.

Four co-founders and a team of eight. Two former RoboCup champions on the engineering side; industrial design from Nike & Home Depot alumni; global manufacturing across China, Turkey and the UAE.

Javad — Co-founder, AI & Robotics

Javad

Co-founder · AI & Robotics

PhD in AI & Computer Vision (France). Former RoboCup champion. Leads perception and autonomy.

Sina — Co-founder, Hardware

Sina

Co-founder · Hardware

Electrical Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic. Former RoboCup champion. Owns the electromechanical stack.

Shahriar — Co-founder, Manufacturing

Shahriar

Co-founder · Manufacturing

Manufacturing and supply chain across China, Turkey and the UAE. Brings hardware from prototype to production.

Behzad — Co-founder, Product & Investor

Behzad

Co-founder · Product & Investor

Serial entrepreneur. Founding investor. Shapes product strategy and the go-to-market plan.

Mitra — Operations & People

Mitra

Operations & People

Team management and operations. Keeps the engine running so the engineers can build.

Kamran — Head of Sales

Kamran

Head of Sales

20 years leading sales for international trading companies in China. Channel and B2B partnerships.

Paul — UI / UX Design

Paul

UI / UX Design

Burlington, ON. Previously Canadian Tire and the Best Athletes sports-analytics app.

Ernesto — Industrial Design

Ernesto

Industrial Design

15+ years in industrial design with Nike and Home Depot. Owns the physical experience of Vive.

Careers

Build the future of
personal sport robotics.

We're hiring engineers, designers and operators who want to ship real hardware into the hands of millions of players. Small team, big ownership, working alongside RoboCup champions and seasoned industrial designers.

  • 01
    Ship real hardware

    Every quarter, units leave the lab and enter players' bags.

  • 02
    Lab in Toronto

    In-person engineering on prototypes; remote-friendly for software and ops.

  • 03
    Equity from day one

    Meaningful stock options for every full-time hire — we share the upside.

Open roles

Don't see a fit? We're always open to exceptional engineers and designers.

Send a general application
Traction

Shipping product. Growing fast.

Shipments

  • 308 units shipped across 2023–25
  • 10 in 2023 · 32 in 2024 · 266 in 2025
  • 8× year-over-year growth from 2024 → 2025
  • Direct sales open at $599 CAD

Engineering

  • Production unit in market — 5 generations of gripper design
  • Patents filed on capture & perception systems
  • 30 FPS on-device computer vision
  • 8+ engineers in the core team

Go-to-market

  • Direct sales open at vivetennis.com
  • Indiegogo + Kickstarter campaigns planned for 2026
  • Tennis-club & academy pilot conversations underway
  • Founder pricing locked at $599 CAD through 2026

Roadmap

2023 First 10 units shipped to early adopters
2024 32 units shipped · production line stabilised
2025 266 units shipped · 8× year-over-year growth
2026 · today Direct sales scaling at $599 CAD · Indiegogo & Kickstarter prep
2026 H2 Crowdfunding launch · target 1,000+ units for the year
2027 Scale to 5K+ units · club & academy distribution
Blog

From the lab.

Engineering notes, design diaries and field tests from the team building Vive Tennis.

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Aerial view of a tennis court with two players Company

Shipping our 300th Vive — three years in

10 units in 2023. 32 in 2024. 266 in 2025. We just crossed 300 Vives in players' hands. A retrospective on what 8× year-over-year growth actually feels like in a hardware company — what broke, what surprised us, and what we're doing differently for the next 1,000.

Vive Tennis robot Engineering

Teaching a robot to see a tennis ball

Training an on-device perception model to detect yellow balls under court lighting, shadow and motion blur — and getting 30 FPS out of a Jetson-class board.

Vive Tennis CMF reference Design

Why our wheels are Pantone 382 C

The CMF brief: choosing a chartreuse the eye reads as "tennis ball" without making the product look like a toy.

Vive Tennis robot angle view Company

A hardware crowdfunding playbook

How we're structuring the Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns launching in 2026 — the timeline, the tiers, the creative, and the unit economics that have to work.

Vive Tennis CMF reference Operations

Manufacturing in Canada vs overseas

We assembled prototypes in three countries before settling on the split between Canadian R&D and Asian high-volume manufacturing. Here's the math.

Vive Tennis robot Engineering

Computer vision on a $200 board

How we got real-time ball detection running on a budget embedded board — and the model-pruning tricks that bought us another 8 FPS.

Vive Tennis robot front view Hardware

Gripper v2: lessons in mechanism design

What we learned tearing down v1 — the geometry that picked up clay, the spring rate that didn't, and the part we ended up redesigning four more times.

Tennis court aerial view Company

Why we're building Vive Tennis

The first post. Why four engineers and operators put real money into a tennis-ball-collecting robot, and what we believe the next ten years of personal sport robotics will look like.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

The questions players, partners and investors ask us most. Don't see yours? Get in touch.

When does my Vive ship?

Direct-sale units typically ship within 3–4 weeks of order. We've delivered 308 Vives since 2023 — 10 in 2023, 32 in 2024, 266 in 2025 — and are scaling production through 2026.

What surfaces does it work on?

Vive is designed for hardcourt and clay. We're field-testing on indoor carpet and synthetic grass; the current generation handles them, but they aren't a launch focus.

How long does the battery last?

One full session — roughly 90 minutes of active play and collection on a single charge. The robot autonomously returns to its dock when battery is low.

Is it safe to play while it's on the court?

Yes. The robot uses computer-vision obstacle avoidance and stays out of active rally zones. It pauses motion when a player crosses its planned path.

Do you sell to clubs and academies?

We're piloting with select clubs in 2026. If you operate a club or academy and want to be on the pilot list, email hello@vivetennis.com.

How can investors get more information?

Designated organizations, angel groups and VC partners can request the full data room — pitch deck, financials, IP and team CVs — at invest@vivetennis.com.

Canada · Start-Up Visa

Building Vive Tennis
in Canada.

Vive Tennis is establishing its headquarters and R&D operations in Canada under the federal Start-Up Visa Program. We are building a Canadian robotics company — designing in Canada, manufacturing globally, and selling worldwide.

  • Canadian-incorporated robotics company with global supply chain.
  • High-skill jobs in AI, computer vision, mechatronics and industrial design.
  • Export-oriented hardware product targeting the US, EU and APAC markets.
  • IP generated in Canada — patents on perception and capture systems to be filed locally.
Shipping now · made in Canada

Order a Vive Tennis.

Direct sales are open at $599 CAD — one-time payment, lifetime ball caddy. Drop your details and we'll send a checkout link within one business day. Units typically ship within 3–4 weeks.

We will only contact you about Vive Tennis. No spam, ever.

Contact

Talk to us.

Investors, partners, clubs, coaches and press — reach the founding team directly.