Most people tracking their health today end up with scattered clues. Their smart watch shows the duration of their sleep. A fitness app tracks steps. A nutrition app counts calories. However, few tools help people understand how it all fits together.
Bevela New York-based startup, believes this is the missing piece in the shift to preventative health. The company has raised a $10 million series round from General Catalyst to scale its AI health companion, which unifies data from wearables and daily sleep, fitness and nutrition habits into personalized insights.
The investment comes after a breakout year for the two-year-old health technology company.
Bevel says it has grown more than eightfold in the past year and now has 100,000 daily active users, making it one of the fastest-growing health apps in the US.
“We think of health as a continuous journey, not a phase,” said co-founder and CEO Gray Nguyen in an interview with TechCrunch. “Bevel meets you where you are, learns from your habits and helps you make small changes that compound over time.”
But with so many brands of health companions, from Whoop to Oura to Eight Sleep, why does the world need another one?
According to the co-founder and board member Aditya Agarwalmany of these health applications rely on accompanying hardware devices that customers must purchase and maintain. Because such devices can be expensive, there is an opportunity to create a product that is entirely software-based, giving people the flexibility to use the wearables they already own.
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“A $500 ring or band is out of reach for a lot of people,” Agarwal said. “We already generate so much valuable health data from our primary wearables and other everyday sources. We wanted to make something that was more accessible to a much larger set of people.” Bevel users pay $6 monthly or $50 annually.
Unlike typical wellness apps that focus on a single area, such as steps, sleep or nutrition, Bevel combines them into one experience. It integrates with Apple Watch and other popular wearables through Apple Health and syncs directly with continuous glucose monitors like Dexcom and Libre. Garmin and additional integrations are in the works, the company said.
All of this information is fed into Bevel Intelligence, the company’s core software, which helps analyze key information and tailor recommendations to each user by learning how their body responds to stress, movement or diet.
Bevel’s story began with pain — literally.
Ahead of the company’s launch in late 2023, Nguyen, who previously served as head of product at Campus with support from Sam Altman, and co-founder/CTO Ben Youngwho worked on machine learning at Opendoor, were building stablecoin infrastructure for enterprises. The demanding nature of startup life meant Nguyen didn’t take good care of his health, as he developed chronic back pain that went undiagnosed for months despite wearing mobile devices and seeing doctors regularly.
“Nothing pointed out what was really causing my back pain, not even my doctors, which is crazy, right?” he said. “That’s when this idea came up. Everyone’s life is so colorful. There are so many little things you do that pile on top of each other and, over time, create a chronic condition.”
Nguyen says he started collecting his health data, tracking sleep, diet and steps, and realized that problems in these areas had worsened over time. Low mobility from sitting too much, sleep problems caused by his mattress adjustment, and high-sodium meals that increased inflammation all played a role.
Similarly, Agarwal, former CTO at Dropbox and first engineer at Facebook, had undergone his own health review after years of intense work left him exhausted. What helped was manually recording his data, through spreadsheets and connected trackers, to rebuild his energy.
When he connected with Ben and Gray about what they were building with Bevel, he saw that they had a similar vision and joined the team.
“We shared the same North Star, which is helping people become smarter about their health,” said Agarwal, who is also a partner at South Park Commons. The venture capital firm, along with General Catalyst, invested $4 million in Bevel earlier this year.
With fresh capital and no plans to venture into wearables, Bevel intends to grow its team and expand horizontally into more services and partnerships that make preventive health accessible.
“Bevel’s mission to democratize health through intelligence and design resonates deeply with us,” said Neeraj Arora, CEO of General Catalyst. “The level of engagement that users are seeing is remarkable, and it’s become part of people’s everyday lives — not just another app. We’re excited to support this team as they build the future of personal health.”
