This article showcases Pretty Progressives top picks for the best ‘Wellbeing’ startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating in the Wellbeing’ industry, but are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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1. Stress Factor
The idea behind this startup: Stress Factor is a diagnostic company that develops a diagnostics kit to measure the effects of real chronic stress.
Headquarters: Be’er Sheva, HaDarom, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Wellness
Founders: Idan Harpaz, Oren Markus
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2. FituUp
The idea behind this startup: FituUp is a virtual platform for sharing and participating in fitness classes with live instructor.
Headquarters: Be’er Sheva, HaDarom, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Virtual Reality, Wellness
Founders: Adi Stein, Chen Giladi, Karina Epstein
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3. VRsteps
The idea behind this startup: VRsteps is a platform that enables people to inexpensively conduct rehabilitation at home.
Headquarters: Beersheba, HaDarom, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Virtual Reality, Wellness
Founders: David Drabkin
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4. SensPD LTD
The idea behind this startup: SensPD is a platform for early and objective diagnosis of autism.
Headquarters: Bosmat Tivon, Hefa, Israel
Industries: Big Data, Health Care, Sensor, Wellness
Founders: Raphael Rembrand
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5. Brain1
The idea behind this startup: Brain1 is a health care company that offers brain related products.
Headquarters: Giv’atayim, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Life Science, Lifestyle, Wellness
Founders: Abraham Peled
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6. Newt
The idea behind this startup: Newt is creating an AI-powered personal sports nutritionist.
Headquarters: Haifa, Hefa, Israel
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Gil Kerbs
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7. Menso Mentis
The idea behind this startup: Menso Mentis develops innovative in-clinic VR platforms to help people with mental disabilities re-adjust to daily functions.
Headquarters: Haifa, Hefa, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Medical Device, Therapeutics, Virtual Reality, Wellness
Founders: Israel Dotan
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8. Fitit
The idea behind this startup: We offer a platform made ideally for connecting the trainers and trainees based on personal and unique filters.
Headquarters: Haifa, Hefa, Israel
Industries: Apps, Fitness, Personal Health, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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9. BioEye
The idea behind this startup: BioEye is a mobile eye-tracking application for monitoring cognitive state.
Headquarters: Hofit, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Health Care, Software, Wellness
Founders: Dovi Yellin
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10. Fitness Meal Planner
The idea behind this startup: Fitness Meal Planner software will plan out healthy meals with the proper portion sizes.
Headquarters: Israelândia, Goias, Brazil
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Software, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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11. Diagnoz.me
The idea behind this startup: Diagnoz.me develops a remote diagnostic tool for detecting and analyzing microbial content of body fluids.
Headquarters: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Wellness
Founders: Ariel Livne
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12. Do 4 Brain
The idea behind this startup: Do4Brain is a science-backed cognitive training program for brain researchers to improve concentration and memory.
Headquarters: Migdal, HaZafon, Israel
Industries: Apps, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Dr. Yossi Chalamish, Ramon Velleman
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13. Plasmatica
The idea behind this startup: Plasmatica uses a surgery technique to solve the problem of camera fogging in laparoscopic surgery.
Headquarters: Moshava, HaZafon, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Life Science, Medical, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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14. OutSense
The idea behind this startup: OutSensedevelops an IOT sensor for early detection of illness and as wellness monitoring tool.
Headquarters: Nahsholim, Hefa, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Wellness
Founders: Ishay Attar
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15. 270Surgical
The idea behind this startup: 270Surgical is a specialty laparoscopic system for wide cavity visualization.
Headquarters: Netanya, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Medical Device, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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16. Restore Medical
The idea behind this startup: Restore Medical develops and provides a device-based therapy for congestive heart failure.
Headquarters: Or Yehuda, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical Device, Wellness
Founders: Elchanan Bruikheimer, Stephen Bellemo
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17. 8400 – The Health Network
The idea behind this startup: 8400 The Health Network is a non profit that joined the Israeli healthcare & life science (HCLS) ecosystem.
Headquarters: Ra’anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Daphna Murvitz
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18. Lensfree
The idea behind this startup: Lensfree is develops a novel acquisition technology that allows reduced radiation dose per exam and improves image quality.
Headquarters: Ra’anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
Founders: Doron Avraham, Zeev Zalevsky
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19. IMNA Solutions Israel
The idea behind this startup: IMNA Solutions is a software development company.
Headquarters: Ra’anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Software, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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20. Spirugar
The idea behind this startup: Spirugar is a technological solutions for diabetic management.
Headquarters: Ra’anana, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Judith Seligman
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21. Excellent Brain
The idea behind this startup: Excellent Brain develops innovative brain training solutions based on BCI and Neurofeedback.
Headquarters: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Neuroscience, Training, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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22. ANeuSTART
The idea behind this startup: ANeuSTART is a nutrient-based personalized action plan for children with autism spectrum disorder.
Headquarters: Rehovot, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Child Care, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Nutrition, Wellness
Founders: Maya Lebow, Yael Kuperman
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23. ShrinkMeApp
The idea behind this startup: ShrinkMeApp is a weight loss and dieting app that provides a personal dietician.
Headquarters: Sde Yaakov, HaZafon, Israel
Industries: Apps, Health Care, Mobile, Wellness
Founders: Gitit Lahav
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24. Missbeez
The idea behind this startup: Missbeez is a mobile app that connects busy women with professionals that deliver beauty & lifestyle services to your doorstep, 24/7.
Headquarters: Shefayim, HaMerkaz, Israel
Industries: Beauty, Lifestyle, Mobile Apps, Service Industry, Wellness
Founders: Gil Bouhnick, Maya Gura
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25. SOLVEAT
The idea behind this startup: SOLVEAT develops Functional Foods – medicinal and disease-preventive foods, enriched with active ingredients from medicinal plants.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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26. Steps&
The idea behind this startup: Steps& has developed a system that enables physical therapists to monitor, encourage, and track their patients’ performance.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Shirley Baumer
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27. realizeMD
The idea behind this startup: Predictive visualization for Medical Aesthetics
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Cosmetic Surgery, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Alon Gat, David Rapoport, Stas Khirman, Uri Neeman
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28. GGTUDE
The idea behind this startup: GGTUDE is a personalized training application for mental wellness.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Mobile Apps, Software, Training, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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29. PainPal
The idea behind this startup: PainPal is a telebehavioral health platform that provides personalized, gamified and on-demand behavioral and cognitive counseling.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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30. BeexOS
The idea behind this startup: Beex provides a centralized location for employees to access and interact with the events and programs.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Apps, Human Resources, Wellness
Founders: Hayut Yogev, Ran Hadary, Tzur Barak
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31. Effectivate
The idea behind this startup: Effectivate is an innovative web-based neuro-wellness application.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Shai Granot
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32. FitNutsPro
The idea behind this startup: FitNutsPro is an online platform for advanced fitness and nutrition.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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33. Mind Innovations
The idea behind this startup: Mind Innovations develops and integrates digital health solutions in the field of clinical psychology.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Health Care, mHealth, Wellness
Founders: Nimrod Levine
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34. HeroKi
The idea behind this startup: HeroKi creates kidney shield wearables.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Wearables, Wellness
Founders: Unknown
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35. TailorMed
The idea behind this startup: Reinventing financial navigation
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Fitness, Health Care, Wellness
Founders: Adam Siton, Srulik Dvorsky
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36. Hyfit
The idea behind this startup: Hyfit is a company that develops and markets smart workout gear devices integrated with AI software platform into a personalised data.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Fitness, Health Care, Internet of Things, Sports, Wellness
Founders: Ali Erciyas, Dan Strik, Elad Elkalai, Guy Bar
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37. mySuperBox
The idea behind this startup: mySuperBox – Superfood based healthy snacks box to improve your snacking habits.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Food Delivery, Nutrition, Organic Food, Snack Food, Wellness
Founders: Lilya Yarlin Yur
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38. Reliqua
The idea behind this startup: Reliqua offers a herbal formula dietary supplement for alleviating symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Industries: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
Founders: Adam Ruimi, Nadav Kately
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