# Black Lab Sports

> Black Lab Sports is a VC fund in Boulder backing Wellness and Health Care. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blacklabsports/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/blacklabsports
- Website: http://www.blacklabsports.com
- Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/pg/blacklabsports/

Black Lab Sports is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Wellness and Health Care. At Black Lab, we are on a passionate quest to create the future, live a life of meaning, and provide all those around us with boundless possibility. We’re a venture capital firm. We invest in Thinker Doers. We incubate technology and invest in businesses that unleash human potential - Mind, Body, and Energy. To bring these technologies to market,we built an innovation hub and commercialization platform - at the intersection of business, human performance, and creativity.Our flagship location in the heart of Boulder, CO, is centered around an ethos of unleashing greatness, building connections, and doing meaningful work.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wellness | 2 | 50% |
| Health Care | 2 | 50% |
| Sports | 1 | 25% |
| Fitness | 1 | 25% |
| mHealth | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Powell | Managing Director | 0 | — |
| JP O'Brien | Founder, CEO, and Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Aaron Beach | COO | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| svexa | Svexa is an intelligence company working to optimize performance and health. The company work in three areas: consulting, algorithms (development and licensing), and software development. Their products provide a unique integration of sports training, performance and recovery data with biological and psychological profiles. The integratedanalytical and AI approach consolidates the myriad data points from elite athletes into real-time, individualized readiness metrics, so professional teams, athletes and coaches can optimize their training regimes and recovery strategies to help keep the athletes on the field, and even more importantly perform at the optimal level. Svexa is a science driven company with with close ties to Stanford University and Karolinska Institutet. It is a distributed company based in Menlo Park, CA, and with additional locations in Stockholm, Sweden and Gdansk, Poland. | $2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Uplift Labs | Uplift Labs specializes in helping people move better. Its AI-powered technology provides analytics to improve performance while minimizing injuries in sports, fitness, and our everyday lives. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquarters in Palo Alto, California. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 19, 2022 |  |
| svexa | Svexa is an intelligence company working to optimize performance and health. The company work in three areas: consulting, algorithms (development and licensing), and software development. Their products provide a unique integration of sports training, performance and recovery data with biological and psychological profiles. The integratedanalytical and AI approach consolidates the myriad data points from elite athletes into real-time, individualized readiness metrics, so professional teams, athletes and coaches can optimize their training regimes and recovery strategies to help keep the athletes on the field, and even more importantly perform at the optimal level. Svexa is a science driven company with with close ties to Stanford University and Karolinska Institutet. It is a distributed company based in Menlo Park, CA, and with additional locations in Stockholm, Sweden and Gdansk, Poland. | $2.8M | Seed | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Dynepic | Dynepic is powering corporate digital innovation, training, and engagement with its DX-Platform technology. The DX-Platform is a fully immersive app and training creation, distribution, and management platform. Founded originally as a product design firm in 2011, Dynepic had the pleasure of developing a number of products for clients, helpingtake them from a seed of an idea to released products. In the course of this work, Dynepic even reinvented the common handle and spun out its patented Spiral Strength grip technology to Dynepic Sports, LLC where it is the basis of a number of sporting good products. | $675K | Seed | Jun 19, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Yamaha Motor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yamaha-motor-ventures-laboratory-silicon-valley) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anthropy Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthropy-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ATMA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atma-capital-fa56) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Charleston Angel Partners — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Deepcore](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepcore) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ethos Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethos-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Black Lab Sports invest in?

Black Lab Sports invests primarily in Wellness, Health Care and Sports startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Black Lab Sports?

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### Who are the partners at Black Lab Sports?

The team at Black Lab Sports includes Bill Powell (Managing Director), JP O'Brien (Founder, CEO, and Managing Director) and Aaron Beach (COO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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