Lea-Sophie Cramer is founding again – this time in the sports sector

Together with Johannes Kreibohm, Oliver Roskopf, and Lukas Brosseder, the entrepreneur and investor is now founding a new company. With Epix Sports, she aims to help sports startups grow.

So new – the company doesn't even have a website yet. The link Epix-sports.com simply leads to the EPIX Sports LinkedIn account . So you have to piece together what Amorelie founder Lea-Sophie Cramer and her three co-founders are up to from what little there is.

The aim is to "create unique sporting experiences for athletes all over the world," according to the new company's first and so far only post. Local sports venue providers are to be transformed into "European brands."

The commercial register entry of the startup, founded in March 2025, makes the game plan a little clearer: The Berlin-based company's business purpose is the "management and acquisition of minority and majority stakes in companies that deal with sports, sports-related services, and sports-related products in a broader sense, as well as the strategic and operational management, control, and further development of these investments." Sounds like a sports VC, or rather, a company builder.

The team behind Epix Sports brings a solid track record: In addition to Lea-Sophie Cramer (Amorelie, Ten More In, Cramer Capital), Johannes Kreibohm (ex-Rocket Internet, founder of Pinga, angel investor at Saarbrücker21), Oliver Roskopf (Rocket, Zalando, Saarbrücker21), and Lukas Brosseder (Park Networks, Affinität, PlusDental) are behind the venture. Verena Pausder, as she herself writes, is involved in the project as an investor.

Epix Sports has already made its first major investment, becoming the largest investor in Mitte Boutique Paddle, the paddle tennis startup of scene leader Bastian Krautwald, in which celebrities such as Felix Lobrecht and the brother of Matt Hummels have invested.

Cramer writes in her personal launch post on LinkedIn that she only discovered sports in her thirties. And at 38, she's now launching sports as a business.

In the current edition of her podcast with Verena Pausder, “Fast and Curious,” Cramer explains that she has long harbored the desire to “start a big company” again.

What she's now doing with Epix Sport is outside her comfort zone, "not purely digital, scaled, hockey stick" – and yet she felt she wanted to do it. She's known the founding team "for ages," and Cramer also began her career at Rocket. With her experience in building companies, she can ideally support founders who, for example, are athletes themselves and not business graduates. "I'm so happy," she says again and again.