Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion

Most people today end up with scattered signals tracking their health. Their smartwatch shows sleep duration. A fitness app logs steps A nutrition app counts calories. Yet some tools help people understand how it all comes together.

BevelA New York-based startup, believes it’s the missing piece in the shift toward active health. The company has raised a $10 million Series A from General Catalyst to scale its AI health companion, which integrates data from wearables and daily habits into personalized insights across sleep, fitness and nutrition.

The investment follows a breakout year for the two-year-old healthtech company.

Bevel said it has grown more than eightfold in the past year and now reaches more than 100,000 daily active users, making it one of the fastest-growing health apps in the U.S. The company added that the average user opens the app eight times per day and retention is above 80% at 90 days, a rare number in a segment where people often fall short after reaching goals.

“We think of health as a continuous journey, not a phase,” said co-founder and CEO Gray Nguyen in an interview with TechCrunch. “Bevel meets you where you are, learns from your habits, and helps you make small changes that compound over time.”

But with numerous health companion brands, from oops from they are from eight sleepsWhy does the world need another?

According to the co-founder and CTO Aditya AgarwalMany of these health apps rely on accompanying hardware devices that customers must purchase and maintain Because such devices can be expensive, there is an opportunity to create a product that is entirely software-based, giving people the flexibility to use wearables they already own.

“A $500 ring or band is out of reach for a lot of people,” says Agarwal “We already generate a lot of valuable health data from our primary wearables and other everyday sources. We wanted to create something that was more accessible to a much larger population.” Bevel users pay $6 monthly or $50 annually.

Unlike typical fitness apps that focus on single areas like steps, sleep or nutrition, Bevel combines them into one experience. It integrates with the Apple Watch and other popular wearables through Apple Health, and syncs directly with continuous glucose monitors like Dexcom and Libre. Garmin and additional integrations are in development, the company said.

All this information feeds into the company’s core software Bevel Intelligence, which helps analyze key data and tailor recommendations for each user, learning how their body responds to stress, movement or nutrition.

Bevel’s story began with pain—literally.

Before launching the company in late 2023, Nguyen, who previously led product at the Sam Altman-backed Campus, and co-founder Ben Yang, who worked on machine learning at Opendoor, were building the stablecoin infrastructure for the venture. The demanding nature of early life meant Nguyen took little care of his health, developing chronic back pain that went undiagnosed for months despite using wearables and seeing regular doctors.

“Nothing pointed out what was actually causing my back pain, not even my doctors, which is crazy, right?” “That’s when the idea came,” he says. “Everybody’s life is very short. You do a lot of little things that pile on top of each other and create a chronic condition over time.”

Nguyen says she began aggregating her health data, tracking sleep, nutrition and steps, and realized that problems across these areas became more complex over time. Less movement from sitting too long, sleep problems due to her mattress setup, and a sodium-heavy diet that increases inflammation all played a role.

Similarly, Agarwal, formerly the CTO of Dropbox and an early engineer at Facebook, went through his own health overhaul after years of hard work burned him out. What helped was manually logging his data through spreadsheets and connected trackers to reconstruct his strength.

When he connects with Ben and Gray about what they are building with Bevel, he finds that they share the same vision and joins the team.

“We share the same North Star, which is helping people become smarter about their own health,” said Agarwal, who is also a partner in South Park Commons. The venture capital firm, along with General Catalyst, invested $4 million in Bevel earlier this year.

With new capital and no plans to venture into wearables, Bevel wants to grow its team and expand horizontally into more services and partnerships that make active health accessible.

“Bevel’s mission to democratize health through intelligence and design resonates deeply with us,” said Neeraj Arora, managing director of General Catalyst. “The level of engagement they’re seeing from users is phenomenal, and it’s become part of people’s daily lives – not just another app.” We are excited to support this team as they shape the future of personal health.”