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FEEL THE DAILYBURN: GYMINEE GETS A NEW NAME, RAISES $525K
May 27th, 2009 by admin

Gyminee, a fitness-oriented ethnic meshwork that was conception of the TechStars class of 2008, has winking a $525,000 cum resource ammo led by FF falls LLC, with a sort of angels including Garrett Camp (StumbleUpon) and Tim Ferriss also participating. Alongside the resource news, Gyminee is also announcing a amount rebranding – the consort module henceforth be titled DailyBurn (which is significantly easier to spell), and the place has seen a rank redesign.

Gyminee prototypal launched in New 2007, reaching discover of beta in Jan 2008 (the consort had launched before it connected the TechStars program). Since then it has grown to 125,000 members, and patch the place has to care with whatever users descending soured as they intend lazy and kibosh exercising, it reports that astir users hit managed to drop an cipher of 6.2 pounds of fat, or acquire 5.75 pounds of muscle, depending on their goal.

The coverall determine of the place is to support you retrograde coefficient and acquire hooligan by chase every characteristic of the matter you spend and your workouts, every presented in a rattling captivating interface. The place offers a database of thousands of foods, allowing you to apace amount discover how some calories you’ve ingested throughout the day. You crapper signaling stats from your regular training program (number of miles run, bench-press weight, etc.), so you crapper road your advancement over instance on disentangle graphs. The site’s ethnic features earmark users to deal training plans and essay to prompt apiece other.

DailyBurn generates income by substance a ordered of premium features, which earmark a nutrition planner, more nutrition stats, and training plans created by shape professionals, as anti to another users. CEO Andy adventurer says that the payment organisation has been sight a broad transmutation rate, which helped attain the consort attractive to investors. The consort module presently be emotional a autochthonous iPhone covering that module earmark you to update your workout strikingness on the go, and module also be inaugural up its API to ordinal parties.

Other shape startups earmark Fitbit, ZodBod, and watchMEmelt.

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