Gainful
Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that offers subscriptions to its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.
Series B+ ·
Amount not disclosed in a source on record.
All 2 rounds ↓Signals
X account@gainful · created Sep 5, 2016 (10 years old) · 708 followers
Website registeredApr 3, 2000 (26 years old)
Funding rounds
- Series B+ · amount undisclosedSource: fundraisingfox.com
- Winter 2018
YY Combinator · batch
Source: ycombinator.com - X account created
- Website created
Founders and team
JA
Jahaan Ansari CEO and Co-FounderLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comEJ
Eric Ji Sun Wu Co-FounderLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comJS
Jonathan Shin Head Of Finance
Investors
AAF Ventures
BBarrel Ventures
BBrandProject
CCourtside Ventures
DDistrict Ventures Capital
RRound13 Capital
YY Combinatoraccelerator
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Sources and API
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