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Housejoy Acquired Orobind, a Personal Fitness Tech Startup

17Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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Housejoy Acquired Orobind, a Personal Fitness Tech Startup

Keeping success efforts up, housejoy have now extended its dominance in the industry by acquiring Orobind, an ‘at-home’ personal fitness tech startup. This move helps housejoy to further strengthen our fitness offering and offer a highly differentiated experience to its customers. Orobind, founded by Satya Vyas and Shubhanshu Srivastava in December 2014, has been a leader in the ‘at-home’ personal fitness space and is serving more than 1000 customers in Bangalore alone, with around 135 active personal trainers on the platform. As a part of this deal, Housejoy acquired the trainers of Orobind, its customer base and the technology. Talking about the acquisition, CEO & Founder Housejoy, Saran Chatterjee, said, “The acquisition is a part of our strategy to become leaders in thi...

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