Techstars

Techstars is a global startup accelerator founded in 2006, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. It provides a supportive environment for entrepreneurs through various programs, including mentorship-driven accelerators, startup programs, and corporate innovation partnerships. Techstars connects founders with a vast network of mentors, investors, and industry experts to foster company growth. The organization operates multiple accelerator programs worldwide, focusing on diverse sectors such as mobility, retail, and social impact. It also manages a venture capital fund that invests in innovative technology companies at early stages. With over 1,000 companies in its accelerator portfolio, Techstars has developed a reputation for nurturing successful startups across various markets, helping them scale and achieve significant valuations.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Dave Drach

Vice President of Corporate Strategy

Max Kelly

Managing Director of Techstars London

Laura Kennedy

Vice President of Corporate Development

Lesa Mitchell

Managing Director

Mike Rizzuto

Fund Associate

Amos Schwartzfarb

Managing Director

Mark Solon

Managing Partner

Vijay Tirathrai

Managing Director

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Nutrition

Rootine

Series A in 2022
Rootine is a precision nutrition platform with evidence-based technology that analyzes biometric and lifestyle data to create individualized nutrition recommendations.

Robyn

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Robyn is on a mission to make parental wellness and education accessible to all by destigmatizing, demystifying and democratizing the entire path to parenthood. Robyn connects aspiring, expecting and new parents with virtual parental wellness providers across 14 different service categories including Birth Education, Nutrition, Mental Health, Doula, Lactation, Physical Therapy and more. Robyn also offers digital parental education courses such as childbirth education and lactation classes.

Flourish

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flourish offers a subscription membership that helps women develop healthy habits that last through personalized accountability, community support, and education.

Nutrisense

Funding Round in 2020
NutriSense, Inc. consults and develops AI based corporate wellness programs. The company provides glucose sensor and application for diet tracking as well as personal dietitians. NutriSense, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Canomiks

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Canomiks provides a genomics, bioinformatics and AI-based Product Superiority Platform that enables companies within the functional food and beverage, dietary supplement and skincare industries to create safe and efficacious products. Canomiks' long-term vision is to make food as medicine a reality.

Dieta, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dieta, Inc. develops an application for managing digestive health. Its platform offers the user to enter the details, such as food, activity, medication, and digestive health data. The app uses machine learning algorithms and data science techniques to provide insights and recommendations to prevent digestive health problems and manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Dieta, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lactation Lab

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Lactation Lab analyzes breast milk for basic nutritional content.

ZoneIn

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nearly every vertical within fitness and wellness is accelerating, from gear to on-demand exercise to recovery. Meanwhile nutrition is stuck in neutral and is often overlooked, despite the well documented impact it has on health and performance. Developed with sports scientists from the NBA and NFL, ZoneIn is the performance-focused nutrition app that meets the needs of all athletes.

Fitnescity

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Fitnescity's mission is to empower people to learn more about their wellness so they can make more informed decisions.

Petabolix

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Petabolix Inc. develops an intelligent nutrition platform to map diets for pets. It offers Petabolix that evaluates pets for nutritional needs based on breed, age, activity level, and other conditions. The company’s Petabolix provides personalized diet recommendations and enables to find diets and best-priced retailers for pet food purchases. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

Gini Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gini Health is the fastest growing app in actionable personalized nutrition. With millions of people having access to the DNA, health and quantified self data it's possible to understand people's nutrition needs at the individual level and give them tools to put this information into action. Gini Health's iOS and Android apps help tens of thousands of people to do this. The first of its kind, Gini also helps users calculate their exact multivitamin dosages based on your DNA, diet, exercise and sleep.

Nutrisense

Pre Seed Round in 2020
NutriSense, Inc. consults and develops AI based corporate wellness programs. The company provides glucose sensor and application for diet tracking as well as personal dietitians. NutriSense, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Suggestic

Seed Round in 2019
Suggestic, Inc. develops an application that provides automated and personalized lifestyle and nutrition coaching. Its application helps users in defining diet plans and provides recommendations for restaurant menu items. The company serves clinicians, nutritionists, patients, and healthcare teams, as well as publishers and authors. Suggestic, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Meal IQ

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Meal IQ is an Intelligent Meal Planning and Shopping App for people on Diets or having Food Intolerances.

Ate

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ate enables long-term, sustainable eating behavior change by augmenting self-awareness. Ate’s non-judgmental mindfulness based approach focuses on how meals make you feel, not the calories they contain. Ate utilizes sensors that people were born with, but have forgotten to use. Ate helps people become a better version of themselves.

YACOB

Seed Round in 2019
YACOB is a nutrition management platform that facilitates communication and operational flow between children, parents, schools & food vendors. YACOB’s mission is to enhance children’s and parents’ health behaviour related to nutrition and physical activity both at home and at school. Based on holistic data ranging from children’s current health levels to their eating habits and physical activity patterns and up to sleeping and screen time balance - in correlation with the international standards set by the WHO, we are developing an adaptive gamified framework in order to trigger children’s desire and determination to become healthier. Our adaptive gamified framework is a blend of physical, digital and phygital tools - from fitness tests to healthy food tastings up to online challenges and competitions based on wearables data, thus creating a seamless flow of experiences across the environments where children already enjoy being.

Vivoo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Vivoo is a wellness assistant that provides custom nutrition advice to the users based on their urine sample analysis. Vivoo translates the user's urine information into personalized nutrition and lifestyle advice that can easily fit in daily life. All of the Vivoo advice has been prepared by registered dieticians, nutritionists, and doctors. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

YACOB

Seed Round in 2018
YACOB is a nutrition management platform that facilitates communication and operational flow between children, parents, schools & food vendors. YACOB’s mission is to enhance children’s and parents’ health behaviour related to nutrition and physical activity both at home and at school. Based on holistic data ranging from children’s current health levels to their eating habits and physical activity patterns and up to sleeping and screen time balance - in correlation with the international standards set by the WHO, we are developing an adaptive gamified framework in order to trigger children’s desire and determination to become healthier. Our adaptive gamified framework is a blend of physical, digital and phygital tools - from fitness tests to healthy food tastings up to online challenges and competitions based on wearables data, thus creating a seamless flow of experiences across the environments where children already enjoy being.

Milkful

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Milkful, LLC manufactures and markets nutritional snack bars for nursing moms. It offers bars made of rolled oats, brewers yeast, flax seeds, black sesame seeds, nuts, fenugreek, Chia seeds, hemp seeds, and organic virgin coconut oil. The company adds sweetners to its products such as brown rice syrup and honey. It offers its products online. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Rootine

Convertible Note in 2018
Rootine is a precision nutrition platform with evidence-based technology that analyzes biometric and lifestyle data to create individualized nutrition recommendations.

Madbarz

Seed Round in 2016
Madbarz aims to be the number 1 solution for your body transformation by providing you with daily workouts, nutrition recipes, and motivation from the in-app community.

Healthie

Seed Round in 2016
Healthie is the HIPAA-compliant EHR & Telehealth platform for nutrition professionals. Healthie's mission is to empower providers with tools that enable effective and efficient patient care. They believe that nutrition plays an incredibly important role in patient lives, and that nutritional care should be available and accessible to as many Americans as possible. Moreover, the workflow of nutritional care is different than traditional medical care, and technology should reflect that - Healthie was built to fulfill the specific needs of this workflow.

Morsel

Convertible Note in 2015
Morsel makes it easy to feed your company a healthy and delicious lunch through a new way to feed your company a lunch that's healthy, provides individual choice, and eliminates waste.

Nexercise

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Nexercise is a mobile platform that provides competition and real rewards to motivate busy people to lose weight and stay fit.

Laveem

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Laveem specializes in providing tools for healthier food decisions. It is driven by a belief that the only way to stem the growing epidemic of diet-related disease is to empower people with the information to make better choices daily. At Laveem, its goal is to provide this information for every food, everywhere. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

WAFFL

Seed Round in 2010
Do you know anyone who has suffered at the hands of Diabetes? Obesity? High blood pressure? Heart failure? Hypertension? Colon cancer? The WAFFL team does and their mission is to be fully committed to fighting these types of diseases. They will play a significant role in preventing this epidemic worldwide. These ‘lifestyle’ diseases are all linked to the way we live our lives. They are living in a complicated world, where they are generally living longer but not necessarily better. They are not moving like they should. They are not eating like they should. They have so much stress and unhappiness consuming us on a daily basis.