NZ New ZealandWellness tech, pre-seed2026
Wakelight
A recovery-tracking MVP for a New Zealand sports-science startup, built to validate the product with semi-professional rugby clubs.
MVP Development →The challenge
Wakelight's founder, a former sports scientist, had validated the underlying methodology in academic research but had never shipped software and needed something real to show club physios.
Our approach
- 01
Built a simple daily wellness check-in flow for athletes, feeding a single readiness score physios could act on
- 02
Skipped wearable integration for the MVP, using manual entry to prove the scoring model before adding hardware complexity
- 03
Piloted with two semi-professional rugby clubs over a full season to get a real dataset, not a short trial
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