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How Freeletics Became The No. 1 Fitness App In Europe

NEW YORK — The ultimatum had been made by Daniel Sobhani and his handful of teammates at health and fitness app Freeletics: make money or move on. “We were very close to killing the project then,” recalls Sobhani of the Munich, Germany-based bootstrapped startup during a media tour. That was early 2013, when Sobhani — the company’s […]

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STYR Updates Nutrition App To Integrate Voice And Photo Recognition

Used to logging your meals manually into a diary or fitness app? Obsessed with posting pictures of your food to Instagram? Those habits can now come in handy with the introduction of STYR 2.0, the nutrition company’s updated app that integrates voice recognition and image capture. The new app gives consumers an easier way to […]

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Meet The World’s Smartest Golf Caddie, Powered By Artificial Intelligence

NEW YORK — Sal Syed admits it’s almost too good to be true. The first time he utilized the Arccos Caddie, golf’s first artificial intelligence-powered platform, he notched a hole-in-one. “My first experience was nothing short of remarkable,” says Syed, who is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Arccos, a golf tracking, sensor and […]

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Talk Human to Me: Your Best Workout Buddy Might Be Powered by A.I.

The following is an op-ed by Gaurav Mathur, who was diagnosed pre-diabetic a few years back and since then has been passionate about using technology to enable health and wellness. He is the founder and CEO of Electric Sheep, a young startup building Astro, a product aimed at using technology to improve personal health & […]

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