A Boulder company operating in the fitness tech realm was acquired this week by Minnesota-based Human Powered Health, a performance lab for athletes.
Humango is an app that helps people create a sports-life balance and train more effectively, regardless of where they are along their training journey. It offers artificial intelligence-enhanced training plans customized to each user. It also analyzes a user’s workout and tracks their activity and health data.
Human Powered Health uses advanced sports science and analytics to measure each user’s physiology and create personalized, comprehensive goals centered around movement, recovery, nutrition and mindset.
Having acquired Humango, Human Powered Health adds AI tech and adaptive capabilities, including dynamic training plans and coaching, to its list of offerings. Dan Cohen, chief performance officer of Human Powered Health, said this acquisition will also allow the company to offer digital capabilities beyond the walls of its lab.
“Combining Humango and Human Powered Health enables us to provide a holistic profile to every athlete that seamlessly integrates one’s data into a dynamic coaching and training plan, personalized to the individual’s goals and adaptive to their life,” Eric Abecassis, Humango CEO and founder, said in a statement.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The two companies decided to partner after meeting at a conference earlier this year.
“Human Powered Health was on the hunt for an adaptive platform that could complement the HPH lab experience,” Cohen said in an email to Colorado Inno. “After a few more discussions, it was clear our organizations were aligned and focused on the same mission.”
Humango was founded in 2019 by Abecassis, who was struggling to balance his time between family, work and working out. He thought about ways to use technology to make training fit into his life while also staying on track with his endurance goals. The outcome was Humango.
The Boulder-based company is made up of a team of experts in AI, machine learning, training and recovery. These 10 team members joined the Human Powered Health organization, bringing the company’s total headcount to about 40.
Humango will continue to operate under its name, and Abecassis will remain as Humango’s CEO.
The AI-enabled offering will be available for all Human Powered Health users later this year.
“As a former professional athlete and coach, I know how critical it is to understand an individual’s unique physiology to ensure that they are training as efficiently and effectively as possible,” Cohen said in a statement. “To integrate that kind of data effectively into one adaptive training plan is a game-changer.”
Human Powered Health will continue to build and scale its footprint across the U.S., starting with opening two physiological assessment labs in Boston.
