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The Fitness Company That Runs Your Treadmill For You
iFIT turned a decades-old treadmill maker into a subscription platform where a trainer in Patagonia can change your machine's incline from 3,000 miles away. Here is how the Logan, Utah company built connected fitness on its own terms.
Valence
Valence builds Nadia, an enterprise AI coach deployed across the Fortune 500 to give every employee always-on, personalized leadership and performance coaching. Founded by Parker Mitchell, the New York company pivoted from team-performance software to generative AI coaching after the release of ChatGPT, and now runs 50+ global deployments and more than one million coaching conversations with NPS scores consistently above 90. It raised a $50M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in September 2025.
Nooks
Nooks is an AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) that automates the grind of outbound sales - parallel dialing, prospect research, call coaching, and follow-up - so reps can spend more time having real conversations and less time leaving voicemails. Founded by three Stanford classmates in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has raised $70M, including a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, and counts Seismic, Greenhouse, Brex, Deel, and HubSpot among its customers.
Tempo
Tempo is a San Francisco-based connected fitness company building an AI-powered home gym. Its flagship Tempo Studio uses 3D infrared sensors and computer vision to track form in real time, coach lifters through strength workouts, and adapt programs to each user. Founded in 2015 by Moawia Eldeeb and Josh Augustin, the company has raised over $316M, including a $220M Series C led by SoftBank in 2021.
vidIQ
vidIQ builds AI-powered software for YouTube creators - analytics, keyword research, thumbnails, scripts, and an AI Coach trained on channel data. Founded in 2011 by veterans of Viddler, the San Francisco company helps more than 20 million creators figure out what to post, why it works, and what to do next.