A Fitness Startup Redefining Community Sweatpals, a fast-growing social-fitness startup founded in 2022, has secured a $12 million seed round led by Patron, a16z Speedrun, and HartBeat Ventures. The platform is built around one idea: fitness is more engaging when it’s social. According to Business Insider, Sweatpals now reaches more than 1 million monthly users, […]
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Crunch Fitness Joins the 2025 Inc. 5000 List
When a brand makes the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, it’s worth paying attention. Crunch Fitness, a name well known in the fitness industry, has landed on the 2025 list — and the numbers behind that achievement tell a story of focus, growth, and smart strategy. Over the last three years, Crunch […]
Leadership Fitness: Integrating Bodybuilding Concepts into Business
Alan Jernigan is a Business & Marketing Expert energized by an unwavering commitment fitness & bodybuilding. As someone who’s all-in in everything from working out to increasing capital, Jernigan often combines the two worlds of business and bodybuilding in a way that works for him. Here are some of the concepts he brings from fitness […]