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The Company Behind the Stretchy Band Every Physical Therapist Owns
One rubber band changed how the world does rehab. Performance Health has spent the decades since turning recovery into an inventory - roughly 2,000 employees, $700 million in revenue, and a catalog that reaches from the training table to the VA hospital.
UFIT Health, Fitness & Sports
UFIT is Singapore's largest independently owned health, fitness and sports community, combining personal training, group classes, physiotherapy, sports medicine, nutrition, podiatry and corporate wellbeing under one integrated roof. Founded in 2011 as an outdoor bootcamp in Fort Canning Park, it now runs multidisciplinary hubs across the city where coaches and clinicians collaborate through its 'Circle of Care' model to treat everyday clients like athletes in their own lives.
Betterguards Technology
Betterguards Technology is a German-engineered sports-tech company that builds adaptive ankle braces using a patented micro-hydraulic piston. Unlike rigid braces or taping, the BetterGuard moves freely with the athlete and stiffens only at the instant of a dangerous ankle roll, reacting several times faster than the human body. Founded in Berlin/Hennigsdorf and now with a New York operation, the company sells direct-to-consumer and has been adopted by athletes across the NBA, NFL, MLS, MLB, NCAA and Olympic programs after joining the 2022 NBA Launchpad cohort.
Springbok Analytics
Springbok Analytics is a Charlottesville, Virginia AI company spun out of the University of Virginia that turns standard 2D MRI scans into precise, interactive 3D maps of the musculoskeletal system. Its FDA-cleared platform quantifies up to ~140 individual muscles - measuring volume, fat infiltration, asymmetry, scar tissue, edema and tendon morphology - to create a 'digital muscle twin' used by elite sports teams, clinical researchers, and longevity programs to assess injury risk, track rehab, and monitor age-related muscle change.