Boston fitness and health analytics for athletes and coaches startup Whoop has raised around $6 million in funding, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The June 20th filing reveals that this round of funding comes from 14 investors. Atlas Venture Partner Jeff Fagnan sits on Whoop’s board of directors.
Other advisors to the startup include: Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab co-founder; Antonio Bertone, former Puma marketing director; Nicholas Christakis, Yale professor; and Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, among others.
The startup was founded by Harvard student Will Ahmed in 2012 out of the Harvard Innovation Lab with the goal of creating a wristband alternative to the classic chest strap monitor to continuously collect and analyze heart-rate data.
The company raised $3.38 million last summer, when it was still working under its original name of Bobo Analytics.
Whoop currently has a team of 11, and is looking to hire six more people full time.
