Sweatpals
Hobbies & Leisure · Fitness
$29.3Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
2open roles
$12Mlatest round · Seed · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
3backers · Antler, a16z speedrun
Overview
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Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 2 open roles at Sweatpals. Sweatpals is headquartered in Austin, United States. It was founded in 2023. It has raised $29.3M in 2 funding rounds. The latest round is Seed of $12M, announced in 2025.
- Open roles
- 2Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Austin, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2023Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $29.3MSum of 2 equity rounds Alion knows
- Latest round
- Seed · $12M · Oct 28, 2025Press report · finance.yahoo.com
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 1 · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Sep 26, 2025
- Technologies in its job postings
- 29Named in its job postings
Official records
Funding and backers
Total raised
$29.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$12M
Seed · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Antler, a16z speedrun
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 28, 2025
Raised a round Seed $12M · led by Patron Capital · YahooFinance
May 1, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $17.3M · SEC Form D
2023
Founded
Jul 22, 2022
Released an app Sweatpals: Fitness Near You · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.08%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.9 ★
5.7k ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Oct 2025 | $12M | Patron Capital lead, Kevin Hart lead | YahooFinance |
| Venture round | May 2025 | $17.3M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | SweatPals Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Mandi ZhouExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Salar Shahini ShamsabadiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Antler 
a16z speedrun 
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Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$203k
Median offered salary
1
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Computer and information systems managers
1
In the register as SweatPals Inc., Buda, TX
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Sep 26, 2025 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
30/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
118 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
People
Mandi Zhou
Executive Officer
Salar Shahini Shamsabadi
Executive Officer, Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Sweatpals over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
93/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
FAISS
FastAPI
Sentence-Transformers
Transformers
Databases
PostgreSQL
Google BigQuery
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AI & ML
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Gemini
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News
Sweatpals: $12 Million Seed Funding Raised To Improve Social Connection Through Fitness
Sweatpals, the community-driven fitness platform pioneering social connection through movement, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Patron, a16z speedrun, and Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures. The funding will accelerate Sweatpals' expansion acros
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Sweatpals Secures $12M in Seed Funding from Patron, a16z speedrun, and HartBeat Ventures to Redefine Connection Through Fitness
Sweatpals, the community-driven fitness platform transforming how people build meaningful connections through movement, today announced it has raised $12 million in funding led by Patron, a16z speedrun, and Kevin Hart
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Sweatpals Secures $12M in Seed Funding from Patron, a16z speedrun, and HartBeat Ventures to Redefine Connection Through Fitness
/PRNewswire/ -- Sweatpals, the community-driven fitness platform transforming how people build meaningful connections through movement, today announced it has...
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This startup is betting on fitness events to help people find friends in the AI era -and it just raised $12 million
Sweatpals, a social fitness app, raised $12 million in seed funding from VCs like Patron, A16z Speedrun, and Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures.
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SweatPals Is Set to Tap Into the $22.4B Fitness Economy by Creating a 'Third Space' for Gen Z and Millennials
AUSTIN, Texas, June 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SweatPals, an established social fitness platform based in Austin, is expanding its offerings to support a growing trend in how people approach health and wellness. The app allows people to find and join lo
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Finding community through sweat and friendship: The story of SweatPals
When Salar Shahini and Mandi Zhou moved to the U.S., they faced intense challenges in adapting to a new culture and making friends. Shahini moved to Boston, Massachusetts from Iran in 2012. He said he...
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Austin
Austin
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing
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