

We’re moving into a space in Midtown (Manhattan), to be able to launch these live classes, as soon as this fall. “First up is launching live classes, and we just signed a lease.

“All of this capital is really about us hyper growing the company in the ways we know our consumers want us to grow,” founder and CEO Helaine Knapp tells TechCrunch. In 2015, Vince and 3 other co-founders, Nick Daniel, Roger Crandall, and Kevin Pearn, set out to build solutions for people who don’t have endless money and time to spend on their fitness. The company says it has a number of plans for the money, but first and foremost is the addition of livestreaming classes to its current on-demand content selection. Yes, an interesting name, but also a mega-ripped social media viral star known by many as the V Shred guy.
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Today, it’s announcing that it has raised a $12 million Series A, led by JW Asset Management, with help from Sol Global and K2. Of course, things have been trending that way a while, but 2020 accelerated home fitness in ways few thought possible.ĬityRow says it experienced a 375% revenue growth last year, largely on the strength of rowing machine sales and platform subscriptions. A federal judge on Monday eviscerated nearly all of Steve Bannon’s defenses against a charge that he criminally defied a. The New York-based company launched a digital platform in 2018, two years before the pandemic completely transformed the way many of us work out. Founded in 2014 as an in-person rowing studio, CityRow was relatively early to adopt the at-home connected model.
