We track 5 organisations in this sector across 5+ countries.
5 entries.
GymBeam is the leading fitness and nutrition D2C brand in Central and Eastern Europe. It uses aggressive data analytics and direct-to-consumer distribution to launch, test, and scale new supplements and wellness products faster than traditional competitors. By 2026, GymBeam is a major ecommerce scale-up with exceptional revenue growth and a growing international footprint, positioning it as a potential IPO or strategic exit candidate.
Lassie is a digital pet-insurance company that combines coverage with preventive-care engagement. The app uses education modules and behavior incentives to reward owners for proactive pet health practices, linking prevention to premium outcomes.
LetsGetChecked is a Dublin-founded at-home diagnostics and virtual care company that ships regulated lab tests directly to consumers, processes samples through its own CLIA-certified laboratories, and wraps the results in physician review, prescribing, and follow-up care where appropriate. Founded in 2015 by Peter Foley, the company rode the pandemic-era shift toward home testing to a USD 1 billion Series D in 2021 and has since positioned itself as a full virtual-care platform covering sexual health, men's and women's health, wellness, colorectal screening, and medication adherence, selling both direct-to-consumer and as a corporate health benefit. It is one of the few European health-tech unicorns to successfully run end-to-end clinical infrastructure — labs, logistics, telehealth, and pharmacy — in the US market, and together with Kerecis and Sidekick Health it rounds out the directory's picture of how Irish and Icelandic health companies are building internationally regulated care businesses.
Biotech skincare startup developing bio-identical melanin from stem-cell-based processes to improve UV protection and skin health. The company focuses on long-duration photoprotection and alternatives to conventional sunscreen formulations.
Palta is a Cyprus-based venture studio focused on consumer health and wellness applications built around subscription economics. Rather than acting as a passive investor, it helps create and scale products by centralizing growth, product, marketing, and monetization capabilities that individual app teams would struggle to build alone in the early stages. That model is especially effective in mobile health categories where onboarding, retention, experimentation cadence, and paid acquisition are central to company outcomes. In the European ecosystem, Palta stands out because it applies venture-building discipline to consumer health software rather than to generalist B2B startups. It is therefore a useful counterpart to broader venture builders in the directory while also connecting to wearable and digital-health companies through its category focus. Palta expands the directory's picture of how consumer health businesses are incubated and scaled, especially when the core advantage lies in mobile growth systems rather than in proprietary hardware.