Key Takeaways
- CoachChatt has opened its second funding round and is in active discussions with select strategic investors, though no round size or valuation has been disclosed.
- The Los Angeles-based platform consolidates text, voice, and video communication for coaches, athletes, parents, and administrators into one system.
- AI monitoring flags potentially inappropriate or concerning interactions across messaging, calls, and video, targeting a recognized athlete safety gap.
- Additional features include livestreaming, shared media galleries, scheduling, attendance, payments, injury tracking, and social media management.
- Co-founders MJ A. Cole and Stephanie Brockermeyer are positioning the company toward investors with strategic alignment in youth and amateur athletics.
A Single Channel for Sports Organization Communication
CoachChatt is pitching itself as the consolidated communication layer for youth and amateur sports organizations. The platform combines texting, phone calls, and video into one environment used by coaches, athletes, parents, and administrators.
According to the company, coaches use the app for practice updates, game schedules, cancellations, and attendance tracking. Administrators handle policy announcements, registration deadlines, and volunteer coordination through the same interface. Parents and athletes receive updates through a single channel instead of stitching together group texts, email chains, and league portals.
The platform also includes livestreaming for games and practices, a shared media gallery for photos and footage, scheduling, payments, injury tracking, and social media management tools.
AI Monitoring as the Differentiator
The product feature CoachChatt is leading with is its AI-powered communication monitoring system, designed to identify potentially inappropriate or concerning interactions across messaging, calls, and video.
The pitch is straightforward. In youth and amateur sports, communication oversight is a real organizational liability, and most current tools, including group texts, personal phones, and generic messaging apps, provide no monitoring capability. CoachChatt positions itself as purpose-built infrastructure for that oversight, while maintaining what the company calls a privacy-first architecture that limits visibility outside sanctioned organizational use.
This places CoachChatt in a small but growing category of athlete safety technology, alongside background check providers, SafeSport compliance tooling, and abuse prevention platforms that have gained attention as governing bodies and clubs face increasing scrutiny around protecting minors.
Funding Round Status and Investor Approach
The company has confirmed that the second round is open and that discussions are underway with selected investors. No round size, valuation, or list of participants has been disclosed.
Per the announcement, CoachChatt is being selective on its investor base, prioritizing strategic alignment over capital alone. The company describes itself as one of the faster-moving apps in the youth sports communication category, though it has not released specific user counts, organization numbers, or revenue figures.
CoachChatt’s leadership team includes Co-Founder MJ A. Cole, who has experience scaling growth-stage companies, and Co-Founder Stephanie Brockermeyer, who has built multi-state operations and partnership pipelines.
“Communication is one of the most important systems within any sports organization,” said Stephanie Brockermeyer, Co-Founder of CoachChatt. “Creating a structured and safe environment for that communication helps teams operate with more clarity, trust, and accountability.”
Where CoachChatt Fits in the Youth Sports Tech Stack
The youth sports technology market is already crowded with team management platforms that bundle communication alongside scheduling, registration, and payments. CoachChatt is taking the opposite approach: leading with communication and athlete safety, and layering operational features around it.
The safety angle is the more differentiated bet. With state-level child protection requirements expanding and abuse-prevention obligations shaping policy and insurance underwriting in amateur athletics, monitoring infrastructure is increasingly part of the conversation for clubs and governing bodies. Whether CoachChatt can establish itself as the default in that space will depend on traction with multi-state club operators, league affiliations, and partnerships with sanctioning bodies.
For investors and operators tracking the youth sports infrastructure stack, this round is worth following as a signal of how communication safety is being priced as a standalone category rather than a feature inside a broader team management app.
Source: Newsfile Corp / Amrytt Media, May 17, 2026, The CoachChatt App Is Raising Its Second Round of Funding for Its Privacy-First, AI-Powered Communication Platform for Amateur Sports
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