Whoop, which makes a fitness tracker and sells a subscription-based health coaching app, raises $200M from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $3.6B
Funding enables fitness tracker start-up to challenge tech giants in health monitoring business — Whoop, which makes a fitness tracker … Tweets: @dangraziano , @epaley , @micahjay1 , @scottbelsky , and @willahmed Tweets: Dan Graziano / @dangraziano : Wow! Seems extremely overvalued considering Fitbit sold to Google for 2.1B (a ~600M premium over it's market valuation) and has at least 29M active users and 500,000 paying Premium subscribers. I'm curious how many users Whoop has. They refuse to say... https://twitter.com/... Eric Paley / @epaley : Huge congratulations to you and the team Will for what you and the Whoop team have built and the many many people who benefit every day! https://twitter.com/... Micah Rosenbloom / @micahjay1 : Congrats to @willahmed and @whoop for insights around rest, recovery and performance - so much more to come. https://twitter.com/... Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky : Incredible to watch @willahmed & @whoop team push product and UX to help all of us push ourselves, and in the process bring the whole category to another level. It has been a wild journey, yet still early days... 💥 https://twitter.com/... Will Ahmed / @willahmed : BREAKING: @whoop has closed 200m Series F led by @SoftBank_Group. I am so grateful to Whoop members around the world who share our mission to unlock human performance. https://www.ft.com/...