Metasports Media Private Limited

Business Overview

• Metasports Media Private Limited is the Indian legal/operating entity behind HitWicket, also styled Metasports Interactive, a mobile cricket strategy/management simulation game where users act as owner-coach-captain of a cricket franchise.
• Confirmed as the App Store "Seller" and Google Play developer of record for "Hitwicket Cricket Game", apps.apple.com, play.google.com.
• The game reports 18M+ players across 109 countries, Entrackr/YourStory coverage of its 2026 funding.
• Founded in Hyderabad
• Founders/directors Kashyap Reddy Biradavolu and Keerti Singh, a third co-founder, Rishav Rastogi, is named in some press but not listed as a company director on record.

Sector & Classification

NIC 72900 — Computer Related Services / "Other IT consulting services n.e.c., publishing of computer operating systems, system software, application software, games etc." Business is mobile gaming/software (Tofler)

Directors & Key Management

GST Registrations

Primary GSTIN: 36AAPCM6707Q1ZL (Telangana, state code 36) — confirmed via knowyourgst.com. Registration date 30/05/2022. Status: Active, Regular taxpayer, Supplier of Services. Address on GST record: Empire Square, FF-7, 4th Floor, Road No.36, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana 500033 (matches Tofler's current registered address). No other state GSTINs found — appears to be single-state registration (Telangana home state, #registrations = 1, per available sources).

Financials

• FY2025, year ended 31 March 2025: Revenue ₹24.22 Cr, up 262% YoY, implies FY2024 revenue ~₹6.7 Cr, — reported by thecompanycheck and corroborated by companydetails.in aggregator, same underlying MCA filing, so treated as one confirmed data point, standalone basis, MCA filing-derived.
• EBITDA, PAT, Net Worth, Total Assets: locked behind Tofler Pro / thecompanycheck premium — "not obtained." Total borrowings: ₹1.1 Cr disclosed charge (see Charges).

Funding History

• HitWicket/Metasports has raised financing across multiple rounds, per Tracxn and press: (a) Equity: total ~$3.91M across 9 rounds from 69 investors per Tracxn, largest single round a $3M Seed round on 3 Nov 2022
• Named investors include Prime Venture Partners and Acsys Investments, +67 others per Tracxn, names not individually verified here.
• Earlier press also cites $8M raised from Prime Venture Partners and Horizon Ventures, and backing from cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle — this may overlap with/be inclusive of the Tracxn-reported rounds
• Not fully reconciled. (b) UA, user-acquisition, financing: $20M from London-based Metica, 2026, per PCQuest, Storyboard18, Entrackr, YourStory, — note this is a revenue-based/UA financing facility, not traditional equity funding, and should not be conflated with the equity rounds above.

Shareholding

• Not obtained — locked behind premium reports, thecompanycheck shows shareholding pattern as "Locked".
• The CIN's "FTC" designator indicates the company is registered as a subsidiary of a foreign company, implying a foreign parent holds equity, but the specific parent entity name and shareholding percentages could not be confirmed from accessible sources.

Loans & Charges

• One open charge on record: Indian Bank, ₹1.1 crore, date of creation 02 May 2023, confirmed — both Tofler and thecompanycheck/search aggregator agree on lender and amount.

Related Parties

• Per thecompanycheck, common-directorship links, via shared directors, to: Hitwicket Digital Private Limited, Octathorpe Web-Consultants Private Limited, and Rajawat N Ranawat Properties Private Limited.
• These are flagged as director-overlap entities, not confirmed corporate group/subsidiary relationships — treat as partial/unverified.
• Foreign parent, implied by FTC status, not identified — not obtained.

Competitive Landscape

• Mobile cricket strategy/simulation and adjacent cricket-gaming peers: 1) Nazara Technologies' WCC3/World Cricket Championship, Nextwave Multimedia, — large, part of listed Nazara group.
• 2) Real Cricket, Nautilus Mobile, — mid-scale cricket simulation game, India-based.
• 3) Dream11 — much larger scale, fantasy cricket unicorn, different sub-segment: fantasy sports vs. management-sim, but core competitor for cricket-gaming user time/spend.
• 4) MPL, Mobile Premier League, — large, broader gaming/fantasy platform.
• 5) Stick Cricket / Stick Cricket Live — smaller, UK-origin cricket arcade/sim game.
• 6) Rario — cricket NFT/fantasy platform, smaller/niche.
• Scale tags are approximate
• Not independently verified per company.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Tofler (tofler.in/metasports-media-private-limited/company/U72900TG2022FTC161690); TheCompanyCheck (thecompanycheck.com/company/metasports-media-private-limited/U72900TG2022FTC161690); KnowYourGST (knowyourgst.com/gst-number-search/metasports-media-private-limited-36AAPCM6707Q1ZL); Falconebiz (falconebiz.com/company/METASPORTS-MEDIA-PRIVATE-LIMITED-U72900TG2022FTC161690 — homepage only, no page-level data retrieved); Tracxn (tracxn.com — HitWicket funding & investors, and Metasports Media legal entity page); Entrackr, PCQuest, Storyboard18, YourStory (2026 Metica $20M UA-funding coverage); Apple App Store (apps.apple.com/us/app/hitwicket-cricket-game-2026/id1498437026 — developer/seller name); Google Play (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cricketgames.hitwicket.strategy); companydetails.in, instafinancials.com, opencorporates.com, ipoplatform.com (aggregator corroboration only).