GROWL

Today's AI is trapped behind screens and text boxes. Reduced to a voice in your ear. Locked in a cage. For that intelligence to matter in fitness and wellness, it must take physical form. Meanwhile, the most powerful engagement medium ever invented, the human being, does not scale: a personal trainer costs $175 an hour, for one person, which is why most people who want one never get one. Two curves are converging: AI that can finally see, reason and converse like a human, and record willingness to pay for real coaching. What's missing is the body.

We give it one. Emma is a life-size, human-like coach who is physically present in your home: she sees you, hears you, talks with you, and reacts to every rep, every strike, every subtle shift in form, in real time. She knows each member of the family, and she gets better at the speed of software. For 60 years, at-home fitness has meant distributing the same pre-recorded class to five people or five million. GROWL replaces distributing content with distributing companionship: dynamic, 1-on-1 coaching for the whole family. Fitness is our wedge to bring Physical AI into the home. It is the one category that demands physical presence, creates daily engagement, and commands premium retention. Whoever owns that daily ritual owns the launchpad for everything else in wellness.

GROWL generated $570K in pre-orders within 30 days on Kickstarter, landing in the top 2% of campaigns ever, with 70% live-campaign conversion at 3x ROAS and no refund guarantees — achieved with only a prototype and a small team. The average pledge was $2,514, and 92% of backers were families averaging $200K+ in household income: exactly the target market. The company has raised $4.75M in Seed funding to date, led by Skip Capital. Product R&D is complete, industrialization is underway with Compal, a Tier-1 manufacturer, and the core system is protected by granted utility patents in the US and Europe. Emma, GROWL's generative AI coach, is running on-device today. GROWL is now raising an $8M Seed+, with $5.5M committed and ~$2.5M remaining to close.

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  GROWL: Connected Fitness Company Raises $4.75 Million - Global Wellness Summit

  Global Wellness Summit · Dec 11, 2024

  GROWL: Connected Fitness Company Raises $4.75 Million (Seed) Connected fitness company GROWL emerged from stealth to launch a groundbreaking product: a boxing bag transformed into a personal, at-home boxing & fitness coach. And GROWL’s product reveal is backed by $4.75 million in seed funding from a notable group of investors, including lead investor Skip Capital, along with Kima Ventures, Teampact Ventures, and former UFC Heavyweight…

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  Growl Raises $4.75M for Boxing Bag That Puts a Coach in Your Living Room

  Athletech News · Dec 4, 2024

  French-American startup Growl is on a mission to bring the benefits of boxing fitness to the masses through virtual coaching and gamification.

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  GROWL Raises $4.75M to Launch the World’s First AI-Powered, Life-Sized Interactive Boxing & Fitness Coach for the Whole Family

  Yahoo Finance

  This one-of-a-kind AI-enabled product merges at-home fitness, advanced tech and gamified workouts to inspire confidence, resilience and fun for the whole familyAUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, connected fitness startup GROWL emerged from stealth to unveil a groundbreaking product: a boxing bag transformed into a personal, at-home boxing & fitness coach. The product goes beyond traditional fitness devices, offering an immersive, gamified and AI-enabled experience designed f

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  Growl launches with $4.75M seed round for its tech-powered at-home boxing workouts

  Sports Business Journal

  The startup plans to marry a full-sized boxing bag with various tech enhancements: a life-sized projection of a coach on the bag for guidance, gamified workouts and AI-powered feedback on workout technique through a 3D motion tracking.

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  GROWL Raises $4.75M to Launch the World’s First AI-Powered, Life-Sized Interactive Boxing & Fitness Coach for the Whole Family

  GlobeNewswire News Room

  This one-of-a-kind AI-enabled product merges at-home fitness, advanced tech and gamified workouts to inspire confidence, resilience and fun for the whole...