Dailyburn, formerly known as Gyminee, a social network for fitness and diet tracking, online accountability, and motivation, has been sold. IAC has acquired a majority stake in the company for an undisclosed sum.
DailyBurn will become part of IAC’s Mindspark Interactive Network, which is also is home to social and entertainment destinations like Zwinky, IWON and Girlsense, personal interest sites such as Life123 and Excite, and interactive products such as Webfetti and My Fun Cards.
From our earlier DailyBurn review:
The overall purpose of the site is to help you lose weight and gain muscle by tracking every aspect of the food you consume and your workouts, all presented in a very attractive interface. The site offers a database of thousands of foods, allowing you to quickly figure out how many calories you’ve eaten throughout the day.
You can input stats from your daily exercise regime (number of miles run, bench-press weight, etc.), so you can track your progress over time on slick graphs. The site’s social features allow users to share exercise plans and try to motivate each other.
DailyBurn currently has about 500,000 members.
The company was launched as Gyminee and debuted publicly at TechStars’ Demo Day In August 2008. The startup went on to raise $525,000 more in seed funding in a round led by FF Angel (Founders Fund), with a number of angels including Garrett Camp (StumbleUpon), Matt Mullenweg (Automattic) and Tim Ferriss participating.
For TechStars, DailyBurn marks the fifth significant exit after Socialthing (AOL), Intense Debate (Automattic), Brightkite (Limbo) and Filtrbox (Jive Software).
Dailyburn (formerly known as Gyminee) is a fitness social network for detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation. DailyBurn motivates both health seekers and fitness enthusiasts to achieve better fitness results in less time. DailyBurn’s “platform for fitness” includes a social web application for tracking exercise and nutrition, mobile tracking applications for iPhone and other mobile devices, and an API that allows third-party fitness sensors to push fitness data automatically.
IAC is a media conglomerate with a wide range of online assets. In November 2007, announced they would be separating IAC into 5 public companies. IAC will consist of: Ask.com, Bloglines, CitySearch, Evite, Excite, InsiderPages, iWon, My Fun Cards, My Way, Popular Screensaver, Smiley Central, Match.com, chemistry.com, ServiceMagic, Shoebuy.com, BustedTees, CollegeHumor, Garage Games, Gifts.com, Green.com, Instant Action, Very Short List, Vimeo, 23/6. IAC is also an investor in Active.com, Brightcove, FiLife, Medem, Merchant Circle, OpenTable, Points.com and SHOP channel....
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