NextStep.io

Going beyond wellness leaderboards, NextStep.io gives Fitbit superpowers to prevent diabetes with a social game that’s led by health advisors.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Healthcare Services
  • Location Cedar Rapids, IA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2012
  • Employees 4
  • Website NextStep.io

Company Summary

NextStep.io health advisors use data collected from activity trackers to create personalized plans based on the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program.
Habits are forecasted using a proprietary algorithm that eliminates the need for manual review, creating daily “steps” to improve activity, nutrition and stress. We sell the program as wellness education to Employers and Health Systems. 1 in 3 Adults are pre-diabetic, making the cost reimbursable by insurance and covered under community health education funding. Participants engage with advisors and content in a mobile game, that turns their activity into currency, getting rewarded for virtual and real world activities.

Team

  • CEO | Co-Founder

    While growing his last company to more than 50 employees, John Schnipkoweit worked with many data collection, communication and visualization challenges; supporting more than 20 million wireless Internet connections and users every year. In addition to developing custom network intelligence and monitoring tools, he built and launched a patent pending energy management system that performed machine learning on billions of data points every day.

  • CTO | Co-Founder

    John met Chris at a Startup Weekend and both share a passion for improving active lifestyles with technology. During the past three years, they have been working full-time on mobile solutions in the active lifestyle space. Prior to joining up with John, Chris built and deployed applications at a Fortune 500 aerospace company, ranging from low level embedded systems to api design.

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