UK golf technology startup Paralo has raised £270,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to develop its operating system for golf clubs and a connected product for golfers. £250,000 of the founder-led angel round was raised under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme SEIS), which offers great tax-efficient benefits to investors in return for investment in small and early-stage startup businesses in the UK.
Founded in 2026 by Jarrad Hicks and Zaheer Merali, Paralo is developing software to replace the fragmented systems currently used to run golf clubs, spanning membership, tee sheets, competitions, payments, EPOS, food and beverage, marketing, reporting and agronomy.
Golf’s technology market has historically offered clubs limited choice. Legacy systems remain deeply embedded and data is fragmented across vendors. In some markets, access to core infrastructure is controlled by governing bodies. In England, for example, technology providers require approval from England Golf to connect to World Handicap System infrastructure.
Golf clubs can currently rely on more than 20 separate software products to manage their operations, while golfers often need several different applications to play a single round.
