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InStep
Techstars '23London, GB · 6 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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hominin builds AI models that analyze human movement patterns from wearable data to generate personalized health and recovery insights for surgical recovery, athletic training, and longevity applications. The company converts movement data into biomarkers for musculoskeletal and neurological health monitoring.
Also known as hominin · hominin labs · InStep Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026hominin labs, operating the InStep brand at myinstep.com and incorporated as InStep Inc., develops artificial intelligence models that analyze human movement captured by consumer smartphones and wearables. The company's central concept is a "movement fingerprint": the sequence of small movement segments that make up an individual's daily routine, which it treats as an individual-specific signal that can be modeled and tracked over time.
The company describes four application areas. For surgical recovery, it builds what it calls Large Movement Models that quantify individual post-operative recovery trajectories from consumer wearable data and flag deviations from expected recovery patterns so that surgeons and patients can monitor at-home rehabilitation. For sports, the InStep app, available on the Apple App Store, helps team medical staff establish an athlete's healthy baseline for static balance and dynamic movement and track return to that baseline after injury. For active apparel and footwear brands, InStep offers a product-testing platform with centralized test management software, real-time results and feedback, and biomechanics and movement analytics covering user behavior, product performance and product-user interaction. A developer API offering, described as coming soon, is intended to expose the company's movement models for use in fitness, wellness and wearable applications. The company also cites military functional movement testing for combat readiness as a potential use case.
Its stated long-range goal is individual-level AI models that translate movement data from consumer headphones into biomarkers of neurological and musculoskeletal health, supporting predictive and preventive health monitoring.
Business model
The company offers software and analytics products rather than hardware: a mobile app for athlete baselining and return-to-play, a SaaS test-management and analytics platform for footwear and apparel testing, and a planned developer API layer over its movement models.
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Market position
Positions itself as a provider of movement-derived health intelligence bridging clinical recovery monitoring, athletic performance and consumer longevity, and states it is developing foundation models for human movement data.
Technology
Proprietary deep learning algorithms applied to movement and geospatial data collected from smartphones and consumer smart wearables, described as a movement sequencing approach that produces an individual "movement fingerprint." The company states it is building individual-level foundation-style models (Large Movement Models) for orthopaedic surgery recovery and movement-based biomarkers of neurological and musculoskeletal disorders, including from consumer headphone data. User data is stored on AWS cloud services, and the company states it does not sell personal data to third parties.
Go-to-market
Direct engagement through a demo request on its website, a consumer-facing InStep app distributed via the Apple App Store, and a longitudinal baseline health study run in partnership with the University of Washington that it invites participants to join.
Healthcare providers and orthopaedic surgeons monitoring post-operative recovery, sports teams and team medical staff, active apparel and footwear brands running product tests, military units conducting functional movement testing, and developers building movement-based fitness, wellness and wearable applications.
Geography
Operates under UK and EU data-protection obligations (GDPR) as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act, and directs complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office or the California Attorney General's Office; its research partnership is with the University of Washington in the United States.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsThe company runs a longitudinal baseline health study in partnership with the University of Washington and invites participants to join.
hominin's InStep app, which helps team medical staff quantify an athlete's healthy baseline for static balance and dynamic movement and track return to baseline after injury, is listed as available on the Apple App Store.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- InStepmyinstep.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does InStep do?
- hominin labs builds AI models that turn wearable movement data into health insights, delivered through its InStep app.
- Who founded InStep?
- InStep was founded by Brandon Taft, Alexandra G. Hammerberg, Marcus Bowyer.
- Who are InStep's investors?
- InStep's investors include Techstars.
- Where is InStep headquartered?
- InStep is headquartered in London, GB.