Wellness & Fitness Startups

The Wholeness Center provides holistic mental health care that combines conventional psychiatric treatment with functional and naturopathic approaches, including nutritional therapy, psychotherapy, psychedelic- and ketamine-assisted therapy, neurofeedback, and mindfulness. It serves both adult and pediatric patients using biomedical assessments such as blood work, genetic testing, and brain-mapping, with care delivered by a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, naturopathic doctors, and therapists.

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Wholyme sells natural personal-care products for muscle and joint relief and skin nourishment, including bath salts, relief balms, and pregnancy oils. It markets these consumer wellness products directly to individuals seeking everyday comfort and recovery.

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WICKED sells clear whey isolate protein powders in multiple fruit-flavored varieties sold directly to consumers online. All products are Clean Label Project certified and lab-tested for contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, and plastics.

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Wider Circle builds neighborhood-based peer support groups that connect members to help them manage their health, address social determinants of health, and access care. Its community-driven model serves health plan and provider partners in the US, aiming to improve member experience and lower healthcare costs.

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wikimove provides a platform for urban mobility management that enables cities to coordinate and optimize multiple transportation options. The solution serves municipalities and city planners seeking affordable, interoperable mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) infrastructure built on open standards.

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Wild Nutrition makes Food-Grown women's nutritional supplements covering life stages and health goals such as fertility, pregnancy, energy, sleep, gut health, and beauty. It also offers free consultations with registered clinical nutritional therapists and sells direct to consumers.

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Willie's Remedy is a CBD and hemp brand inspired by musician Willie Nelson, offering a line of hemp-infused coffees and teas, hemp-oil tinctures, and balm sourced from American farmers using organic growing practices. It sells wellness-focused consumer products directly to shoppers.

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Wink Health provides remote diagnosis and treatment for sleep apnea through a smartphone app for initial screening, virtual doctor consultations, and home delivery of medical equipment. The service addresses the gap where most sleep apnea patients remain untreated by reducing traditional barriers to care.

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WINPRO sells plasma-based functional supplements for dogs and cats, formulated with ingredients like taurine, theanine, and glutamine to support inflammatory response, joint, digestive, and immune health. It markets these direct-to-consumer chews to pet owners as part of everyday pet wellness.

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Wisear develops neural-interface solutions that use biosensing to read and interpret bioelectrical activity, with the goal of integrating this technology into consumer devices such as earphones and AR/VR hardware. The company targets both everyday device manufacturers seeking human-machine interface capabilities and consumers looking for wellness and medical applications.

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Within was a virtual reality company that built an app for distributing immersive VR films and interactive stories from creators worldwide, later pivoting to Supernatural, a VR fitness and wellness experience for Meta Quest that guides users through workouts in scenic destinations with coaches and music. The company now focuses exclusively on Supernatural, and the original Within app was shut down in February 2023.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[{"full_name": "Chris Milk", "title": "Co-founder"}, {"full_name": "Aaron Koblin", "title": "Co-founder"}]

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WithU is a fitness and wellness app that uses AI to create personalized workout plans based on a user's goals, fitness level, available equipment, and schedule. It offers expert-led workouts for all levels and an AI assistant that adjusts plans and answers fitness and wellness questions.

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WM Partners is a private equity firm that invests in and operates lower-middle market companies in the health and wellness sector, providing strategic and operational expertise. It focuses on acquiring and building consumer health and wellness brands.

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Wonder Beauties is an online store selling skincare and beauty products across multiple brands, offering skincare consultations provided by its pharmacists. It operates as an e-commerce retailer in the beauty and personal care category.

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Wondermind is a mental health platform providing journaling exercises, focus tools, and community conversations to help users practice mental fitness. The service targets individuals seeking accessible mental health support outside of traditional therapy.

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Woojer makes wearable haptic devices that convert audio into physical vibrations felt on the body, using its patented Osci oscillating-frame technology for gaming, VR, music, movies, and wellness. Its products connect to any audio device via Bluetooth, USB-C, or 3.5mm jack and are sold direct to consumers as well as through retailers like Best Buy and Costco.

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Work& provides private, compliant lactation and wellness rooms for workplaces, offering turnkey management and design services for employers and landlords. The company serves organizations of all sizes seeking to support working parents and employees during key life moments.

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Woven Science backs, incubates, and builds companies in the psychedelic and wellness space, operating across drug development, health technology, and plant-medicine product development and distribution. It also runs El Puente, an initiative focused on access and benefit-sharing between psychedelic companies and indigenous peoples.

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Wovenly provides dementia support programs that integrate with health care providers and existing clinic care teams, offering a 24/7 family support center, care coordination, home and community integration, and respite services. Delivered under Medicare's GUIDE Model, it serves families and patients living with dementia.

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WRAY operates direct-to-consumer brands focused on self-care and loungewear for women, including skincare, inner care, femcare, haircare, and lounge wear products. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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WTF Gyms operates physical fitness centers offering gym facilities, group classes, and certified trainers, paired with an AI-powered mobile app that provides personalized workout and diet plans, body composition analysis, and progress tracking. It serves individual fitness members across multiple gym locations in India.

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XENA provides 3D surgical roadmaps generated from standard MRI scans to guide soft-tissue surgeries, particularly gynecological procedures like endometriosis, fibroids, and adenomyosis cases. The platform uses automated organ segmentation to create pre-operative 3D maps with disease visualization and intraoperative guidance displayed in the operating room.

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xHood is an online community built for Black queer people who are forming or raising families. It provides a space for members to connect around parenting, family life, and mutual support.

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小鹿中医 operates an internet-based traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospital platform, connecting patients with over 20,000 doctors for remote consultations via text, voice, and phone, along with online prescriptions and health management. It works with medical institutions to build internet healthcare platforms serving patients in China, including underserved areas such as Qinghai.

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