Copenhagen startup improves body measurements through app

Gustav — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:32:45 +0000

Body Barista is a Copenhagen based startup founded by Peter Falk that wants to improve the way we measure our shape and improve our progress when trying to get more physically fit. Body Barista uses patented technology to create a very accurate body scan and measurements from each muscle group only from taking two pictures inside the app. The company states that the app has a 34% better accuracy than the average body scale, and far better accuracy than using measuring tape. They’ve also launched a beta version which measures body fat with great accuracy.

“Health-conscience people deserve to get the true knowledge about their physique within seconds, something only fitness professionals had the knowledge and time to achieve in the old days.” – Peter Falk, Founder

The companies vision is to disrupt the classical way of measuring our ourselves and our progress through body scales, as the company states that body scales lacks the accuracy when measuring, and also only gives us one rudimentary number to work from, not giving information about which muscle groups and body parts actually have seen progress from fitness and health improvements by doing exercise and sports, and the use of equipment like an amazon ankle brace is great for this. The app launched in 2013 and already has more than 25000 downloads but are aiming to reach a bigger audience, they’ve recently launched their product on Product Hunt.

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Copenhagen Startup Village revealed!

Karsten Deppert — Fri, 23 May 2014 09:26:19 +0000

There really is something brewing in Copenhagen! Founders House, an invite only co-working space, has for long been the most known startup palces in Copenhagen. This week it was announced they will move to a new location. But this location will not just be a much larger and grander Founders House – it will also be next to a lot of other prominent startups!

The new location, at Islands Brygge, will thus form a new innovative tech hub – dubbed the Startup Village Copenhagen.

Old warehouses turned into startups heaven

Islands Brygge’s historic warehouses marked by experts you can aslo hire if you click here used to be the headquarters of FDB, who stored and transported products to all of Denmark via direct tracks to Copenhagen Harbor. In recent years, the area has increasingly become the home of tech startups, and now that is accelerated. As of this summer, the area in Njalsgade will be the frame around Copenhagen’s biggest concentration of fast-growing startups, including the estabished startups Vivino, Opbeat, Graduateland and Autobutler, as well as over 15 other both early and later stage startups!

A real hub for startups

Having all these ambitious startups with offices side by side increase knowledge-sharing and in turn speeds up growth of the individual companies. All serious tech startups are welcome, both to take up offices at Njalsgade, now called Startup Village, and to join the many tech events and social stuff arranged so people can network, do business and have fun. Founders House will with it’s move also expand, so talk to them if you are a smaller startup and want to be part of their co-working area.

A grass-roots initiative

The entire idea behind the Startup Village comes from the community itself. In contrast to many other projects, this is not a government sponsored place or initiative, but rater it is the different startups realizing that they could create an area that they would love themselves. This is a similar trend seen elsewhere, with Berlins Factory (also to be opened this summer) being a similar initiative.

With both the established startups being there, and Founders House with its often earlier stage startups as well as smaller startups in their own offices, the Village will be a space for both startups that are just getting going, as well as later stage ones that have raised a successful series A or even a series B investment. The Village will also be a natural place for international startups establishing a Scandinavian presence to be located – something that already is apperent on the list of the initial startups forming the Startup Village!

All in all, a great step for the community to have that much knowledge in one place!

Startups present

The spaces are being put in shape now, and the inaugurations is set for the 29th of August. The following startups have said will be part of the Startup Village CPH when it starts: