WELLNOW IN A NUTSHELL
wellnow (formerly massagio) delivers high-quality massages on demand via web or app. No matter if you want to relax at home, at work or during travel in a hotel, wellnow makes it simple to instantly book & enjoy a delightful mobile massage within a few hours.
BUSINESS SUMMARY
wellnow is a curated online marketplace enabling consumers easy and flexible booking of high-quality mobile massage services via web or app. Through a pool of professional therapists, wellnow guarantees a high availability and fast delivery of massage services within a few hours. The matching technology automatically chooses the best-suited massage therapist for each booking (availability, distance, customer requirements, etc.) from a network of massage professionals enabling them to efficiently utilize capacities and optimize costs. The therapists are licensed, experienced and quality-checked. wellnow establishes a unified brand and equips therapists with technology and materials needed (app, branded shirts, towels, massage oil) to deliver a timely, consistent and delightful massage experience at standardized prices. wellnow also plans to offer companies, hotels and insurances access to our platform and pool of therapists to easily manage and offer massages to employees (corporate health management), guests and clients/patients.
BACKGROUND OF THE TEAM
The founders of wellnow have been friends for years and successfully launched and sold a previous wellness marketplace startup called wellmio to an international competitor in 2014. wellnow then was created as an offspring of the previous startup and because the founders saw more potential to disrupt the wellness space. Alexander, one of the founders and the CEO of wellnow, completed the Mannheim Master in Management program and graduated from the University of Mannheim in 2012. During his studies he was already active in Entrepreneurial studies with several courses at the ifm Institut für Mittelstandsforschung, where he took part in a business plan course. Together with his team members he created the product ROLLERINAS during the 6 months phase, which resulted in an award and 1st prize from the NewBizCup 2.0 for the best business plan. After finishing his studies Alexander joined a strategy consulting firm in Munich, before he went on to start his own company.
Check out their service at www.wellnow.de !