Terra API Podcast - Stay Fit, Stay Connected

In this engaging podcast, Daniel, a passionate cyclist and co-managing director of Rapha, discusses his journey from everyday commuting to joining the global cycling brand. He talks about Rapha's humble beginnings and its expansion into a global community. Daniel gives insights into Rapha's product lifecycle and their collaboration with elite cycling teams like EF Education-EasyPost and Team Sky. ...

In this video with spoke with John Coogan, Co-Founder of Soylent and Lucy, building a viral YouTube channel, and recently joined Founders Fund as an Entrepreneur in Residence. John shared some interesting insights into how to grow your audience on YouTube with storytelling and appealing to a broader audience.                       Moreover, John takes us through his journey of how he started his Y...

In this podcast, we connected with Ryan DeLuca, Co-founder of BodyBuilding.com and Black Box VR. Below are some highlights of the conversation. 

Anthony, a former Marine, shares his journey from a focus on fitness to a broader concern for health, triggered by his father's struggle with brain cancer. Following his service, he needed to support his family and turned his passion for fitness into a means of income. This led him to co-found Fitt Insider, one of the best media companies in the space of fitness, which started as a newsletter. Ant...

We had a fascinating discussion with Eric Min, CEO and co-founder of Zwift. In the discussion, he shares his journey in building the most successful fitness and metaverse platform that has raised $620 million in funding to date. Eric discusses the origins of Zwift, its transformation from a side project to a full-time venture, and the importance of community in the company's success. The conversat...

In this insightful podcast, Robin Thurston, the CEO of Outside, shares his journey from founding MapMyFitness to joining Under Armour and eventually leading the charge at Outside. Thurston highlights the importance of being resilient in entrepreneurship. He emphasizes the need to focus on three main decisions once you take institutional funding: going bust, selling to a strategic partner, or going...

We had this podcast with the co-founder of Strava, and the Executive Chairman, discussing the company's growth over the years and its vision for the future. Gainey shared how Strava evolved from a basic performance-tracking platform to a community-driven fitness platform. He also discussed the importance of balancing fun and data analytics to keep users motivated.   Gainey highlighted the importan...

The discussion between the CEO of Terra - Kyriakos, and the CEO of Moxy - Roger, revolved around using SMO2 (muscle oxygenation) sensors in sports training and performance.  Roger explained how the sensor works by measuring the amount of oxygen in the muscle tissue and how it can optimize training by providing real-time feedback on muscle oxygenation levels.  It can also be used to monit...

In this video, we had the chance to chat with Jay, the CEO of Genopets, a blockchain-based gaming platform that combines the concept of NFTs and gaming. Jay shared with us his experience in the space, starting as one of the first employees at EOS, a layer 1 protocol that was popular then.    He worked on the marketing side, building community, and it was his first foray into web 3 commun...

For this week’s spotlight, we connected with Ivan Vatchkov , founder and CEO of Kalibra , the platform that turns health data into action. Kalibra is a platform that turns health data into action.

In this Podcast, we connected with Jordan Kobert , co-founder and CEO, and Christian Vande Velde - world-renowned Olympic athlete, and co-founder of The Breakaway , the motivational coaching app for digital fitness. They have a fascinating story, starting from the Tour de France, to Y-Combinator, and raising funds from some of the best VCs in the world. Some quotes and highlights: 00:00 — Introduc...

For this podcast, we connected with Anthony Diaz, founder and CEO of Health Hero .  Health Hero is the platform that enables people’s lifestyles to cover their basic needs, providing utility tokens as they make healthy decisions.   Some quotes + highlights:  00:00 — Introduction  01:32 -- How the idea started  06:00 -- 'Just make sure it's super rewarding, super recognizin...

For this podcast, we connected with Cyndi Williams , founder and CEO of Quin  — the platform designed to support people with diabetes and their 24x7 self-management needs. Quin builds complex rich models of personal behaviour, physiology and psychology to make tailored recommendations for its users. Terra is an API that makes it easy for apps to connect to wearables Some quotes + highlights: 00:00...

Ultrahuman is one of the biggest innovators in the world, in the space of Metabolic Fitness.  Based on your glucose data, they provide recommendations to improve your nutrition and training.   They have raised more than $25m until date, and we've been working together to make it super easy for all their users to connect their wearables, through Terra.   In this conversation with Mohit and Vatsal,...

Territory Foods is one of the most successful health meal delivery services in the US. They prepare and deliver your meals to your door, on a weekly basis, and they have raised $42m in the process    One of the most interesting applications of Terra , comes from Territory. They aggregate your wearable data, such as your activity, training and sleep, and they fully customise and deliver t...

Kieran is one of the most successful football players, having started his career from Arsenal, playing as a Left back.   He then joined West Bromwhich Albion, and now is playing in the US, at Inter Miami   We got to discuss with him about his early days, how he started playing football, his relationship with Arsene Wenger, his thoughts on team culture, and investments in startups and blockchains....

David is the head of Samsung NEXT and EVP at Samsung   David started as an early employee at Google, then lead SV Angel with Ron Conway, was in the Forbes Midas List, and is now leading Samsung's NEXT fund.   We got to discuss with him about his early days, SV Angel, Samsung NEXT, Wearables and Data, investing in startups, company culture and Terra  - the API that makes it easy for apps to connect...

Matteo is the co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep    Eight sleep is one of the most successful fitness startups in the world, having been through Y-Combinator, and raised almost $200m in investment, from funds such as Khosla, Founders Fund and Valor Equity Partners.   We got to discuss with him about Miami, Sleep, the story of Eight Sleep, Wearables and Data, and investing in startups.  Today we dis...

Lance has been a legendary figure in professional cycling, having won numerous awards, and amongst them 7 consecutive Tour de France titles - but also controversial due to using performance enhancing drugs. He is also an active investor in Startups in the fitness and health space, with his fund NEXT Ventures. Today we discussed with him amongst others, about his early days, training optimisation,...