Legacy of Adi Dassler - leAD - is a Berlin based Sports entrepreneurship platform focused on funding and nurturing early-stage Sports startups. Applications for the accelerator batch of 2018 are now open. Next cohort will be in Berlin from September to December, 2018.

"No matter how high the bar was raised, our grandfather, Adi Dassler, always found a way to make a clean jump over it. Today, we support young innovators with a unique network of mentors, investors and entrepreneurs."

"Our grandfather, Adi Dassler, was always driven by the idea of making great sports ideas even greater and putting them into action. Today, he would be supporting start-ups in the same way we are doing in his honor."

„My grandfather Adi Dassler had an incredibly genuine way of sharing his enthusiasm for sports. Consequently, this passion became a connecting element within our family. Today it is the foundation of leAD.“