Wellbeing tech startup Valeo Wellbeing has raised $3 million (€2.5 million) in seed funding to develop its personalised health tracking and guided wellbeing app.
The funding was led by Global Founders Capital, Global Ventures, Nuwa Capital, and FJ Labs.
WHY IT MATTERS
Valeo addresses users who are not sick but are not feeling their best, a gap in the regional market that Valeo founders wanted to...
ZOE, a Boston-based personal nutrition startup, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Ahren Innovation Capital. This latest cash infusion brings ZOE’s total funding to $53 million.
Two-time Super Bowl champions Eli Manning and Ositadimma Umenyiora also participated in the funding round with Accomplice, THVC and Daphni.
WHAT THEY DO
After three years in stealth, ZOE released...
HealthifyMe, an Indian company offering a weight loss and fitness app that features an artificial intelligence-powered assistant, has raised $12 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Sistema Asia Fund, with Samsung NEXT, Atlas Asset Management, Dream Incubator, and others supporting the company for the first time. Returning investors IDG Ventures India, Inventus Capital, Blume...
Diet and fitness apps were used by 55.7 million American adults in 2013, up from 43.9 million in 2012, according to a study by Kantar Media's MARS OTC/DTC Study of 20,000 consumers.
The study found that 129 million American adults (55 percent of the population) own either a smartphone or a tablet or both -- 116 million (49 percent of the population) own a smartphone and 64 million (27 percent)...
Weilos, which debuted at Y Combinator's Summer 2013 Demo Day last month, is a weight loss coaching service that utilizes people's past experiences to help others lose weight.
The peer-to-peer network connects people with weight loss success stories to those who are just beginning their journey, or have tried to lose weight before without reaching their goals. Those looking to use the program must...
