JoGo

  • Gurgaon, India
  • RetailSocial Commerce, HealthcareHealth & Wellness, Health, Fitness, Mobile App, Mobile, Consumer Internet, E-commerce

Gamified One-Stop Health Fitness app platform to get fit, the fun way!

Founded:
2015
Stage:
Early Revenues
Market:
B2C

Startup Video

Featured

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JoGoApp- Top 5 Startups in India. Founder Top 5 Women Entrepreneurs in India | WEConnect International

JoGoApp & Founder, Pooja Kumar were rated Top 5 Indian Startups & Women Founders at the WEChallenge, 2016 hosted by WEConnect International & ThinkBig in Bangalore.

Nov 17, 2016

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JoGoApp on Yourstory | Yourstory

Positioned as a gamified one-stop health, fitness and wellness app, JoGoApp allows users to earn SweetSweats (reward points) for being active, and then redeem those as discounts against goods. Users can track activity via in-app Jogo tracker...

Oct 14, 2016

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JoGoApp- Top 10 Startups in India | Economic Times

JoGoApp was a Top 10 finalist at Conquest amongst 1200 applicants & was selected post an intensive scrutiny of 36 parameters.

Aug 17, 2016

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JoGo - App of the Month | AppStudioz

JoGo is not just a fitness app. It is an app that motivates you to stay fit,

Feb 04, 2016

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Need a new phone? Add an extra mile to your morning run | e27.co

The app awards you with points for each calorie burnt that can be redeemed at various e-commerce websites

Oct 22, 2015


Founded

Company Incorporated in India and product development kickstarted

May

2015
New Product Release

NewU App launched on iOS with 20+ App/Devices and 2000+ merchants integrated

Aug

Funding

First Angel Investment raised from Ravi Srivastava (Purvi Capital)

Sep

Media Coverage

e27 covers the NewU journey http://e27.co/need-new-phone-add-extra-mile-morning

Oct

New Product Release

500 Health, Fitness, Wellness Product & Service listings across 11 categories

Nov

Customer

Re-branded to JoGo

Dec

New Product Release

1000 Health, Fitness, Wellness Products & Service Listings across 17 categories

Dec

New Product Release

JoGo Android Launch

Jan

2016
Media Coverage

JoGo- Featured as App of the Month

Feb

New Product Release

1000 health, fitness, wellness services listed across 10 categories.

Feb

New Product Release

Fully battery optimized, app based auto tracker launched on Android devices

Mar

New Product Release

100,000 curated health & fitness products added across 10 categories

Mar

New Product Release

Launched Challenges feature on Android to target Corporates, Brands,Peer Groups

Mar

Customer

Crossed 5K users

Apr

Customer

1st Corporate Wellness Client

May

Media Coverage

Top 50 Finalists for TiE the Knot

Jun

Media Coverage

Finalist at Start Tel Aviv

Jul

Customer

1st Insurance Partnership

Aug

Media Coverage

JoGoApp's on Yourstory

Oct

Media Coverage

JoGoApp rated Top 5 Startups & Pooja, founder rated as Top 5 Women Entrepreneur

Nov

Jobs

Co-founder & CTO Software Engineer
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Gurgaon, India
Javascript , , Hadoop, CSS, HTML, php, 5+ Yrs of Experience, Ability to lead team, Android Apps, IOS

Job Description
Business Stage
We launched the beta version of the NewUApp a few months ago and the early product versions (already available on the Apple App Store) have received great consumer feedback, engagements and transactions.

We have also raised early Angel Investments are now looking to scale our young company to become a leading global mobile product company focused on the Health & Fitness space.

The founding team currently has expertise in the Mobile, Marketing and Consumer Apps domains and we looking to add a Co-Founder who would help build a winning product and team over the next few months and years. 

Compensation & Ownership
As we are an early stage start-up, please don’t apply in case you looking to get fat salary package.

We are actually looking for people who want to build a start up company with a globally successful product and are willing to sacrifice all/most of their current salaries to earn equity of a fast growing company . We believe that over time this equity will be far more valuable than your monthly salary cheque.

We are thus looking for a Co-founder who builds and leads the Product & Tech organization at minimum/nil salary and gets adequately compensated with equity ownership 

Skills/Experience/Qualifications Required
Minimum 5 years experience in Product Development/Coding/Back-end engineering roles in Mobile/Internet companies
Results-oriented with a roll up your sleeves and lead by example kind of attitude
Experience in launching and scaling products
Highly analytical and number driven individual with a creative bent of mind
In-depth knowledge of technologies like PHP, Ruby on rails or Python
Strong experience with CSS, HTML, XML, AJAX and JavaScript Libraries
Native Android/iOS App Development experience and demonstrated success in defining and launching mobile/web apps
Fast learner with the ability to acquire unknown skills
Hands-on full-stack development experience
In case you have passion for health & fitness, that will be a big plus
B.E/ B.Tech in Computer Science from top colleges like IIT/NIT/BITS etc.
Job Profile/ Key Responsibilities

Be part of the Co-founding team and help build the entire company, culture, team and products
Lead the product development from a technical standpoint, and take end-to-end responsibility for all things technical. This would include but not be limited to technology selection, architecture/hosting decisions, product design and more
Design and implement engineering best practices for scalability, sustainability, security, and performance of the mobile front end
Over a period of time build a strong team which values and further enhances the innovation first culture
Understand and identify the changing trends in technology and leverage them to create greater business success
Build back-end tools / leverage Open Source tools to automate business processes for driving marketing & customer engagement 

Team Summary

Pooja Kumar, CEO
JoGoApp is inspired by Pooja’s own struggle with weight & fitness issues. At JoGoApp she is applying her 10yr + startup experience to her passion - health & fitness & hoping to make large scale impact.
Founding team member at Eko (a fintech startup). Set up operations for Ujjivan (an urban MFI). Worked at American Express
Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics & Bachelors in Economics from Lady Shriram College, Delhi
LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/pooja-kumar-a481325

Rohit Srivastava, Technology Head
6 yrs. work experience in E-commerce (MySmartPrice.com) & Fin-Tech (Eko) Startups & at established companies like Oracle & Cisco Systems
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

Nishant Kalra, Manager- Business Development
Founded Stadorama- A Platform to connect amatuer sports enthusiasts & sporting facilites
University of Delhi), B.A.(H) Business Economics

Developers: Naveen (Android), Sundeep (iOS)
Advisors: Ravi Srivastava, Hetal Sonpal

Team


Product/Service Summary

JoGoApp is a gamified health, fitness, wellness mobile app/platform with a vision to, via gamification & easy access create a virtuous cycle for everyone to get fit, the fun way! Our mission is to make the sedentary active & the active, more active!

Product/Service Descriptions

JoGoApp

JoGoApp is a gamified one-stop health, fitness app to get fit, the fun way! It helps users seamlessly track physical activity via the proprietary JoGo auto tracker & partner tracking apps/devices. It motivates users to be active via SweetSweats (reward points) redeemable at 1000s of products. The Challenges feature, targeted to Corporates, Brands, Peer Groups adds social gamification & makes the experience engaging. It enables access to 100K+ health/fitness products/services across 20 categories