Zone 5 Ventures

Zone 5 Ventures was founded on the belief that innovation in sports and fitness technology will change lives and improve the world we live in. And we know that there are entrepreneurs out there with that same mission and belief. Entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas and ground-breaking technologies that will transform the athletic experience. We want to partner with them on their journey.

John Rangel

Managing Partner

7 past transactions

The Breakaway

Seed Round in 2022
The Breakaway develops a motivational coaching app designed for cyclists. The platform features smart goals and personalized insights to help users progress faster. It also includes motivational feedback and tips from top pros to ensure users are focused and learning as they go.

Outside

Series B in 2021
Outside operator of a digital media company planned to produce a collection of an active lifestyle and sports material. The company publishes lifestyle content such as storytelling, meal plans, gear reviews, online courses, films, TV series, discounted event access, magazines, and more across television, mobile, desktop, and print outlets from a variety of brands, allowing people to access a reliable website for endurance sports information.

Kaya Climb

Seed Round in 2020
Kaya Climb is a climber’s app designed to connect users with the gym and local climbing community and find and share beta. It enables climbers to build an ascent pyramid, and review past climbing sessions. The company was founded in 2019 when a crew of climbers and technologists got together to create a platform for the climbing community.

Zwift

Series C in 2020
Zwift is a provider of an interactive fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling and running workouts into dynamic and social adventures. Its platform connects users to physical indoor trainers so that cyclists can pedal inside while immersed in any number of virtual landscapes on a screen in front of them that enable users to join in rides together with friends. Zwift uses gaming technology to bring the outdoor experience indoors, making at-home exercise fun, and engaging. It promotes social experience by connecting cyclists and runners in 3D computer-generated platform. Users of the Zwift platform interact, train, and compete together by wirelessly pairing a bike trainer or treadmill to the Zwift app, to power their in-game avatars. Zwift was launched in 2014 by Alarik Myrin, Eric Min, Jon Mayfield, and Scott Barger and is headquartered in Long Beach, California.

Outside

Series A in 2020
Outside operator of a digital media company planned to produce a collection of an active lifestyle and sports material. The company publishes lifestyle content such as storytelling, meal plans, gear reviews, online courses, films, TV series, discounted event access, magazines, and more across television, mobile, desktop, and print outlets from a variety of brands, allowing people to access a reliable website for endurance sports information.

Outside

Venture Round in 2019
Outside operator of a digital media company planned to produce a collection of an active lifestyle and sports material. The company publishes lifestyle content such as storytelling, meal plans, gear reviews, online courses, films, TV series, discounted event access, magazines, and more across television, mobile, desktop, and print outlets from a variety of brands, allowing people to access a reliable website for endurance sports information.

Today's Plan

Acquisition in 2019
Today’s Plan is smarter training for every cyclist.
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