Trend: The Wellness World Begins to Teach “Relational Fitness” With our social skills atrophied, the wellness world is doing something new: teaching people to communicate, connect and empathize more deeply–from the new Peoplehood, a group conversation model built upon “active listening” to compassion-building techniques, whether loving-kindness meditation or freudenfreude training Our 2023 trend, “Wellness Comes for the Loneliness Epidemic,” is about how the most powerful…
GoFrendly raises $1.3 million for women’s social networking app Stockholm’s Gofrendly, a social networking app that allows women to find like-minded people to meet up, has obtained $1.3 million in funds led by Swedish VC JNE Invest. The cash supply provides a platform for Gofrendly to expand overseas, starting in the UK, while also doubling down on its underlying product offer. Read More from the…
Issue No. 223: Apple’s Metabolic Health Moonshot Apple is pursuing a metabolic health moonshot. Pushing deeper into healthcare, the tech giant is developing a needleless system for tracking blood glucose. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
BetterNight Raises $33M Growth Financing Round led by NewSpring. PRNewswire/ — BetterNight, a leading provider of comprehensive sleep care through its virtual care platform, announced today $33 million in growth funding led by . The financing round includes participation from existing investors HCAP Partners and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) via its Impact Fund II and other accounts managed by the firm. Read More from the…
Unyoked snaps €18M to expand its sustainable wellness cabins across Europe – TFN After operating in Australia and New Zealand, Unyoked, a nature-focused hospitality startup has kept its eye on the United Kingdom as it looks to expand Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
The top 10 most innovative companies in wellness of 2023 Wellness companies—including Eight Sleep, Whoop, and Conceive—are finding innovative ways to bring mind and body together. Read the article on Fast Company > Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
A place to exercise your brain? Introducing mental health gyms When 42-year-old David McCullar thinks back to the early 2000s, a chapter in his life marked by rapid changes, he recalls palm trees, sunny beaches – and panic attacks that made him ill. “I was throwing up every day,” Mr McCullar said. In 2001, the company he worked for went bankrupt. Read More from the…
Top 2023 Wellness Products And Trends From Design & Construction Week Corrections: One of the shoe cleaning system manufacturers was incorrectly labeled as Signature Kitchen Suites; it was actually the company’s sister brand in the same booth, LG. Kohler’s kitchen faucet is Purist Suspend, not Suspense. Design & Construction Week is likely the largest gathering of homebuilders, interior designers, remodeling contractors and kitchen and bath…
Consumer Biotech Company Tally Health Launches a New Platform Aimed at Extending Longevity David Sinclair, a genetics professor at Harvard University, has spent his career researching the aging process and how it can be reversed using epigenetic modifications. Sinclair’s lab recently published a model that explains how aging works and how it can be reversed. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Emotional fixtures Ikea unveiled a sculptural light design collection with designer Sabine Marcelis in February. The VARMBLIXT collection is part of Ikea’s “long-term goal… to encourage a shift in the perception of lighting as simply functional to lighting as emotional,” the company stated in a press release on their website. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
