Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

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Ethan Austin

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Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Nutrition

Rootine

Series A in 2022

Rootine is a precision nutrition platform that utilizes evidence-based technology to analyze biometric and lifestyle data, providing personalized nutrition recommendations. The company's approach focuses on connecting various health data points to improve individual health outcomes. By leveraging patient data, Rootine crafts tailored vitamin regimens that adapt to the unique biological needs of each person. Its artificial intelligence system continuously refines these recommendations and nutrient formulas as users' bodies change, ensuring that individuals receive optimized support for their health goals. This personalized approach aims to empower clients to make informed health decisions based on real-time data and ongoing progress tracking.

Robyn

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Robyn Inc. operates a community-driven digital platform focused on integrative maternal wellness, catering to women at various stages of parenthood. The company connects aspiring, expecting, and new parents with a network of wellness providers across 14 service categories, including birth education, nutrition, mental health, and lactation support. Robyn also offers digital education courses, such as childbirth education and lactation classes, aiming to make parental wellness and education more accessible. By providing resources and tools, Robyn seeks to empower women in making informed decisions about their health and well-being during pre-pregnancy and throughout their parenting journey. Founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, Robyn was previously known as FertileGirl LLC.

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. is a Chicago-based company established in 2019 that focuses on personalizing nutrition through advanced continuous glucose monitoring and machine learning technology. The company offers a monthly subscription service that includes a glucose sensor and a mobile application for tracking meals, activities, and fasting. NutriSense aims to help clients understand their metabolism and manage their health effectively by providing tailored dietary recommendations and access to personal dietitians. Through its innovative approach, NutriSense seeks to empower individuals to create a diet that is uniquely suited to their needs.

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. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops an application focused on managing digestive health, particularly for individuals suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The app allows users to input detailed information about their food intake, physical activity, medications, and digestive health metrics. By utilizing machine learning algorithms and data science techniques, Dieta's platform analyzes this data to provide personalized insights and recommendations aimed at preventing digestive issues and alleviating symptoms associated with IBS. This innovative approach assists users in improving their overall quality of life by offering tailored guidance based on their unique health profiles.

Lactation Lab

Pre Seed Round in 2020

Lactation Lab analyzes breast milk for basic nutritional content.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Madbarz

Seed Round in 2016

Madbarz Inc. is a fitness technology company based in Zagreb, Croatia, that develops a mobile application designed to help users track their fitness workouts. The app provides a comprehensive solution for body transformation, offering daily workout routines, nutrition recipes, and motivation through an in-app community. In addition to smartphone access, Madbarz also features web-based tutorials that cover bodybuilding, strength training, and nutritional guidance. This platform aims to empower users by delivering effective and personalized workout programs to facilitate their fitness journey.

Healthie

Seed Round in 2016

Healthie Inc. operates an online practice management and telehealth platform specifically designed for dietitians and their patients. The Healthie platform automates office management, patient records, and virtual care, streamlining scheduling, billing, and administrative tasks for nutrition professionals. Additionally, it offers a mobile application that allows patients to track their health activities, including food intake, workouts, and various health metrics, facilitating progress monitoring between appointments. Founded in 2016 and based in Lewes, Delaware, Healthie is HIPAA-compliant and aims to empower nutrition providers with tools that enhance patient care. The platform recognizes the unique workflow associated with nutritional care, distinct from traditional medical practices, and is tailored to meet these specific needs while promoting accessible nutritional support for a broader audience.

Morsel

Convertible Note in 2015

Morsel Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in preparing and delivering healthy meals for employees. Established in 2015, Morsel focuses on providing nutritious and flavorful lunch options that cater to individual preferences while also promoting sustainability by minimizing food waste. The company's innovative approach aims to streamline the process of offering wholesome meals in corporate settings.

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.