Wellness & Fitness Startups

KÄÄPÄ Mushrooms cultivates and processes functional mushrooms (Lion's Mane, Chaga, Reishi, Shiitake) in Finland, selling organic liquid extracts, powders, and elixirs to consumers for wellness. Products use the company's proprietary NordRelease extraction process and offer batch-level traceability via QR codes, with distribution in Finland, Europe, and North America.

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Kagayaku Cosmetics develops and sells a range of skincare and haircare products, including moisturizers, UV/dark-spot care lines, all-in-one gels, and hair care for various life stages. Founded in 1984, the company sells through consumer cooperatives (seikyo) in Japan and maintains its own quality and safety standards.

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Kai Kombucha is a Taiwanese kombucha brand that brews naturally fermented drinks using fair-trade and organic ingredients along with local Taiwanese tea leaves and fruit, applying North American fermentation techniques. Founded in 2019, it sells its kombucha flavors direct to consumers in mix-and-match packs of 6, 12, or 24 bottles.

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Kairo is a mobile app that guides athletes through mental visualization exercises to build confidence, resilience, strength, and motivation. It targets athletes across sports such as running, tennis, and basketball as a mental training tool.

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Kaiya provides peer-led support groups for teenagers focusing on mental wellbeing, offering evidence-based skills training and emotional support through trained peer support workers. The platform offers affordable group sessions starting at $19 and operates as a public benefit corporation serving teens across the United States.

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Kama is a science-based mobile and web app offering guided breath, body and touch practices for desire, arousal, pleasure and connection, along with interviews on topics like libido, shame and intimacy. It is aimed at individuals and couples for use solo or with a partner.

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Kamleon develops the S-Urinal, an AI-powered smart urinal that performs reagentless urinalysis to deliver real-time hydration insights via a cloud-connected digital platform. It serves sports teams, gyms, workplaces, and public facilities, positioning its data as consumer-grade wellness information rather than medical diagnostics.

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MACRO MEALS is a digital recipe book (in Hebrew) offering high-protein meals with at least 45 grams of protein per serving and exact gram-by-gram ingredient and calorie measurements. It targets people on cutting or dieting programs, providing batch-cooking recipes designed for meal prep, portioning, and freezing.

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Keiken is a marketplace platform that connects health and wellness professionals with companies and employees seeking wellness services. The platform offers both in-person and online options across categories including alternative therapies and occupational health.

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Keiron Interactive designs and develops immersive products and services using virtual, augmented and mixed reality along with gamification, handling projects from ideation and concept to development and business modeling. It has worked across sectors including entertainment, fitness and wellness, edutainment, and health.

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Kensing manufactures plant-based, high-purity ingredients including natural vitamin E (tocopherols), sunflower-derived phytosterols, biosurfactants, and specialty esters. Its products serve the nutraceutical/dietary supplement, personal care, home care, and cosmetics industries, with an emphasis on clean-label, sustainable, and upcycled sourcing.

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Kēpos makes a daily gut-health supplement built on human milk bioactives (kpHMO™), lab-made prebiotic fibers designed to be molecularly identical to those in human milk to rebuild the gut microbiome. Sold direct-to-consumer, the product targets bloating, irregularity, gut-barrier issues, and food sensitivities.

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Khyaal is a mobile app that serves seniors in India with a community platform offering events (music, games, yoga, meditation), financial products (digital gold and SIPs), curated products through a marketplace, and organized senior-friendly domestic and international tours.

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Kiddo is a connected care platform for pediatric healthcare that captures biometric health data and behavioral health information for children with chronic conditions. The platform enables care teams and families to track health trends and improve outcomes through AI-augmented insights and care coordination.

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Kidokit is a mobile app for parents that helps them plan and track their child's daily development through age-specific activity videos, weekly articles, development assessments, and daily plans. It also offers a parent forum and access to experts such as pediatricians, occupational therapists, psychologists, dietitians, and dentists.

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MyKidsLink is a family app that offers a private social stream for sharing parenting moments, an automatic storyboard to save children's milestones, a secure vault for documents like insurance and report cards, and reminders tailored to each child's safety, wellness, and development. It is aimed at parents managing their children's information and memories.

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KidStrong is a children's development program offering a curriculum built with child development experts to help kids build physical strength, confidence, and key skills. It operates as a franchise business with more than 160 locations serving over 65,000 kids per week across the US and Canada.

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KinCapsule builds a platform for preserving and sharing family stories, memories, and personal legacies. The product is framed around capturing family history before it is lost, motivated by the founders' own experiences with aging relatives.

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KinderFarms makes clean over-the-counter healthcare products for children under the KinderLyte and KinderMed brands, including electrolyte solutions and children's medicines that use real active medicine with cleaner inactive ingredients such as non-GMO dextrose and fruit/vegetable-based coloring. Its products are sold direct to consumers as family healthcare staples.

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KindKatch is a personalized video messaging platform that lets staff record short videos and deliver them via text or email to build relationships, drive engagement, and improve retention. It serves small businesses, health and wellness/fitness studios, nonprofits, and enterprises, and also offers a human growth specialist service for outreach and lead follow-up.

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Kindly Human offers a peer support platform that connects employees with trained peers who share lived experience, aimed at improving well-being, retention, and engagement. It is sold to organizations as an employee benefit that integrates into existing workplace ecosystems.

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Kinto provides personal care coaching to family caregivers looking after a loved one with dementia, pairing them with a designated Care Coach and offering a curriculum with personalized action plans. It also runs group learning sessions for peer support among caregivers.

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Kinumi provides a personal concierge service for active older adults, helping them achieve health and lifestyle goals through coaching for physical, mental, and emotional wellness, while enabling social connection and community engagement.

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Kiplin offers a mobile app and gamified programs (walking, cycling, running, quizzes, team challenges, well-being workshops) to promote physical activity, team cohesion, and workplace quality of life (QVT/RSE) for employers. It serves companies, local governments, and healthcare institutions of all sizes, handling internal communication, program animation, and reporting for HR teams.

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