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Vishal Gondal’s GOQii Launches Fitness Tracker Paired With Human Coaches

Vishal Gondal who left Disney India last year after selling Indiagames to Disney as part of the UTV acquisition in 2011, has launched GOQii, a fitness tracking solution coupled with human coaches. The company is backed by angel investors like Google's Amit Singhal, Dell's Kanwaljit Bombra, Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit-Nene and her husband Dr.Shriram Nene, Indix's Sanjay Parthasarthy and Microsoft's Taher Khorakiwala and Vijay Vashee among others. Interestingly, Bharat Vasan who is the co-founder and COO of a competing product Basis is also an angel investor in GOQii. Re/Code says the company has raised several million dollars in angel investment. The company is based in California with offices in Mumbai and Shenzhen. What does GOQii offer? The solution comprises of: - A water-resistant fitness tracker GOQii Band which has features like full touch display, a vibrating alarm and automatic wireless syncing via Bluetooth LE. It also has a watch and a motion sensor which can track steps, calories, distance and active time. The company says GOQii coaches will also have the ability to remotely vibrate the band to motivate users. - GOQii Coach, a team of people selected from various areas of fitness, sports, nutrition and behavioral science who have apparently been trained to analyze the data generated by the tracker and recommend changes to users for a better lifestyle. These coaches will be available on-demand through a mobile app and pre-scheduled monthly video or audio calls. - GOQii Experts which is a group of health, fitness and habit experts who will help users make sense of the data and also train coaches on motivation, nutrition, fitness and habit development techniques. The team includes Dr. Shriram Nene, Dr. Kendra Markle…

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