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Lenus Bet €78 Million That Great Coaches Need a Back Office, Not Another Fitness App
The Copenhagen healthtech built software, sales support and an academy around a simple constraint: one good coach has only so many hours. After a costly expansion, Lenus is learning that scaling the people behind personal health takes more than an app.
Vagaro
Vagaro is a Pleasanton, California SaaS company that runs the back office for salons, spas, fitness studios, and wellness businesses. From a single dashboard, owners book appointments, take payments, manage staff and inventory, run marketing, and get discovered on a consumer marketplace and app. Founded in 2009 by Fred Helou, it now serves more than 83,000 businesses across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021, and bundles scheduling, point-of-sale hardware, embedded payments, and AI tools into one subscription.