Wellness & Fitness Startups

vWise builds a digital experience platform that delivers personalized engagement for retirement plan participants, helping them enroll, increase savings, and adopt financial products. It serves recordkeepers, financial product providers, and advisors in the U.S. defined contribution retirement market.

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Vytrus Biotech develops natural active ingredients for skin and hair care cosmetics using plant stem cell biotechnology, producing them at industrial scale under controlled conditions. It serves the cosmetics industry with sustainable ingredients and distributes its products worldwide.

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W1NNAS makes oral pouches that deliver active ingredients through the mouth's mucous membrane for faster absorption. Its products include an Energy Pouch (caffeine, L-theanine, B-vitamins) for focus and a Sleep Pouch (melatonin, reishi, L-theanine) to support sleep.

1 investor

Wagestream (Stream) offers an employer-provided smartphone app that gives workers flexible access to earned pay, budgeting tools, savings accounts, financial education, credit-score tools, and benefits guidance. Delivered through employers as a financial wellbeing benefit, its platform integrates with payroll, HR, and time-and-attendance systems.

1 investor

Wake offers medicinal and psychedelic fungi therapy combined with genomics-based integration aimed at supporting human health and personal transformation. It operates in the health and wellness industry.

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Walmark develops and sells dietary supplements and consumer healthcare products spanning vitamins, minerals, herbal extracts, and health categories such as joint, gut, respiratory, and female and male health. Based in the Czech Republic, it distributes across Central and Eastern Europe and exports to more than 40 countries.

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Warmspace runs guided, structured online sessions designed to foster human connection through one-on-one, group, and community meetings. It offers a Master Facilitator Program to train facilitators to bring its connection experiences to communities, clients, and organizations.

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Wasatch Family Therapy provides in-person and virtual mental health counseling — including individual, couples, family, group, play, and teletherapy — for children, individuals, couples, and families. It operates in Farmington, Lehi, and Sandy, Utah, and offers online sessions across Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Utah.

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Wattbike designs and manufactures smart indoor bikes and air bikes with real-time performance metrics, pedal-stroke analysis, and a companion training app for cyclists, athletes, and home fitness users. Its bikes are used by elite sports teams, performance labs, gyms, and individuals, and are sold through a distribution network across multiple continents.

1 investor

WaveClear is a personalized mindset and skills training tool for League of Legends players that tracks focus and in-game performance in real-time (without hardware) to help gamers improve consistency, ignore toxicity, and rank up. It combines wellness research and pro-coaching methods to train mindset, mechanics, and goal setting during gameplay.

1 investor

Wax Center Partners is a franchisee operator of European Wax Centers, running 39 waxing and personal-care salon locations across California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas. It launched in 2021 as a partnership between the Stieber EWC franchise and private equity firm MKH Capital Partners.

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Waxing the City operates studios offering personalized professional waxing services and hair removal performed by trained specialists using a custom-formulated wax, along with related skincare treatments and brow products. It serves consumers seeking body and facial waxing and self-care through a membership and referral program.

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Wazi provides online therapy services via video and audio calls, connecting clients with certified Kenyan therapists at a flat rate of 2500. The platform serves individuals and organizations seeking mental health support through a web-based interface.

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Paradoxx sells hair care products—including scalp serums, thickening shampoo, conditioner, blow dry spray, and lash and brow serum—built around its proprietary Trioplexx technology marketed for hair growth. The brand targets consumers seeking hair thickening and growth solutions.

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We Hate Exercise provides a virtual, evidence-based movement program featuring personalized plans, daily accountability, and human coaching for individuals who struggle to stay active. The platform serves individuals and organizations seeking to promote health and wellness.

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Weo makes a smart water bottle (Weo Bottle) that uses Swiss-made diamond-coated electrode technology to electrolyze water, producing antioxidant-rich water intended to improve hydration, skin, immune, metabolic, and cellular health. It sells directly to consumers and positions its reusable bottle as a sustainable alternative to single-use plastic bottles.

1 investor

Clair is a continuous, noninvasive wearable device for hormone-aware health tracking, marketed toward women. It offers real-time hormone monitoring paired with a companion app.

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WebMD is a digital health publisher that provides consumer-oriented health and medical information, including drug approvals, condition guides, expert blogs, and wellness newsletters. It works with a network of doctors and health experts to review its content on topics ranging from chronic diseases to mental health.

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Weilos (operating as WeightWatchers/WW Clinic) provides virtual weight management services combining the Points program, nutritional guidance, and access to GLP-1 medications through board-certified clinicians. The platform serves consumers seeking structured weight loss support with coaching and community.

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WBD101 develops hearables and wearables technology, offering branded products such as ActivHearts and MOGO.

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Well Principled builds AI models for optimization across multiple domains: consumer durable purchasing behavior for marketing and supply chain planning, battery electrochemistry for materials science, and personalized metabolic modeling for fitness applications.

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Wellable offers an employee wellness platform with modular tools including wellness challenges, holistic health content, on-demand classes, rewards, gift cards, peer recognition, and lifestyle spending accounts. It serves employers looking to power employee engagement and well-being programs.

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Well+Good is a media and wellness publication that publishes science-backed health, wellness, and lifestyle content for a general audience interested in integrative health practices.

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Wellbeing Polska provides corporate wellbeing programs for companies, combining online tools (a wellbeing platform, mobile app, webinars) with on-site activities such as consultations with 75+ specialists, massages, movement sessions and health days. It serves HR teams and employers in Poland with needs assessments, wellbeing strategies and measurable reporting to support employee mental and physical health.

1 investor