USA – Playbook, a NYC-based mobile marketplace enabling top instructors in fitness and athletics to turn their iPhone content into a subscription income, raised $3M in seed funding.
Backers included Giphy Founder Alex Chung, StyleSeat Founder Melody McCloskey, EventBrite Co-Founder Renaud Visage, Seventh Generation Founder John Replogle, Ed Baker, former Head of Growth at Uber, Daniel Graf, former Head of Product at Uber, and Brendan O’Driscoll, Head of Growth at Bird, Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Uphonest Capital. Co-founded in 2017 by Jeff Krahel, Michael Wojcieszek, and Kasper Odegaard, Playbook provides an app that now features over 150 fitness instructors who have published a total of more than 40,000 workouts on the platform. Top instructors include Magnus Lydgback, Don Saladino, Boss Everline, Hannah Bower, and Morgan Tyler. The platform is continually adding new instructors and programs. 18/06/2020
