Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion

Most individuals monitoring their well being immediately find yourself with scattered clues. Their smartwatch exhibits sleep length. A health app logs steps. A vitamin app counts energy. But few instruments assist individuals perceive how all of this matches collectively.

Bevel, a New York–based mostly startup, believes that’s the lacking piece within the shift towards proactive well being. The corporate has raised a $10 million Collection A from Normal Catalyst to scale its AI well being companion, which unifies knowledge from wearables and each day habits throughout sleep, health, and vitamin into customized insights.

The funding follows a breakout yr for the two-year-old well being tech firm.

Bevel says it has grown greater than eightfold throughout the previous yr and now reaches over 100,000 each day energetic customers, making it one of many fastest-growing well being apps within the U.S. The corporate additionally provides that the common person opens the app eight occasions per day, and retention stays above 80% at 90 days, uncommon numbers in a class the place individuals typically churn after reaching a short-term health objective.

“We consider well being as a steady journey, not a section,” stated co-founder and CEO Gray Nguyen in an interview with Trendster. “Bevel meets you the place you’re, learns out of your habits, and helps you make small modifications that compound over time.”

However with quite a few well being companion manufacturers, from Whoop to Oura to Eight Sleep, why does the world want one other one?

In keeping with co-founder and board member Aditya Agarwal, many of those well being apps depend on accompanying {hardware} gadgets that prospects should purchase and keep. As a result of such gadgets could be expensive, there’s a chance to create a product that’s purely software-based, giving individuals the pliability to make use of the wearables they already personal.

“A $500 ring or band is out of attain for lots of people,” stated Agarwal. “We already generate a lot helpful well being knowledge from our main wearables and different on a regular basis sources. We needed to make one thing that was extra accessible throughout a a lot bigger set of individuals.” Bevel customers pay $6 month-to-month or $50 yearly.

In contrast to typical wellness apps that target a single space resembling steps, sleep, or vitamin, Bevel combines them into one expertise. It integrates with Apple Watch and different widespread wearables by way of Apple Well being and instantly syncs with steady glucose screens like Dexcom and Libre. Garmin and extra integrations are in improvement, the corporate stated.

All this info feeds into Bevel Intelligence, the corporate’s core software program, which helps analyze key info and adapt suggestions to every person, studying how their physique responds to emphasize, motion, or vitamin.

Bevel’s story began with ache — actually.

Earlier than beginning the corporate in late 2023, Nguyen, who beforehand led merchandise at Sam Altman–backed Campus, and co-founder/CTO Ben Yang, who labored on machine studying at Opendoor, have been constructing stablecoin infrastructure for enterprises. The demanding nature of startup life meant Nguyen took little care of his well being, creating power again ache that went undiagnosed for months regardless of utilizing wearables and seeing docs recurrently.

“Nothing identified what was really inflicting my again ache, not even my docs, which is loopy, proper?” he stated. “That’s when this concept got here up. Everybody’s life is so nuanced. There are such a lot of small stuff you do this stack on one another and, over time, create a power situation.”

Nguyen says he started piecing collectively his well being knowledge, monitoring sleep, vitamin, and steps, and realized that points throughout these areas had compounded over time. Low mobility from sitting too lengthy, sleep issues attributable to his mattress setup, and sodium-heavy meals that elevated irritation all performed a task.

Equally, Agarwal, previously CTO at Dropbox and an early engineer at Fb, had gone by way of his personal well being overhaul after years of intense work left him burned out. What helped was logging his knowledge manually, by way of spreadsheets and linked trackers, to rebuild his vitality.

When he linked with Ben and Gray about what they have been constructing with Bevel, he noticed that they had an identical imaginative and prescient and joined the crew.

“We shared the identical North Star, which helps individuals change into extra clever about their very own well being,” stated Agarwal, who can also be a accomplice at South Park Commons. The enterprise capital agency, alongside Normal Catalyst, invested $4 million into Bevel earlier this yr.

With recent capital and no plans to enterprise into wearables, Bevel intends to develop its crew and increase horizontally into extra companies and partnerships that make proactive well being accessible.

“Bevel’s mission to democratize well being by way of intelligence and design deeply resonates with us,” stated Neeraj Arora, managing director at Normal Catalyst. “The extent of engagement they’re seeing from customers is exceptional, and it’s change into a part of individuals’s each day lives — not simply one other app. We’re excited to help this crew as they construct the way forward for private well being.”