Kapoor was an investment banker at Moelis & Company, where she covered consumer and retail companies and built one of Wall Street’s first coverage platforms focused on the health and wellness industry. Kapoor was a senior investment banker at Goldman Sachs, where she built out the firm’s coverage of leisure, lifestyle and wellness companies and led the new disruptive growth coverage effort within consumer and retail investment banking. Prior to joining VMG Consumer Acquisition Corp.
Kapoor is a seasoned financial services executive with 14 years of experience in investment banking, spending the majority of her career covering high-growth consumer and retail companies across both M&A and capital markets transactions. Aarti Kapoor, CEO, VMG Partners Consumer Acquisition CorpĪarti Kapoor is Chief Executive Officer of VMG Consumer Acquisition Corp., a consumer and retail focused SPAC sponsored by VMG Partners. Francesca Schuler, Board Member & Co-Founder, California Fitness Alliance, and former CEO, In-Shape Health Clubs Tips and tricks to gain investment as a Female Founder APPLY HERE Fostering diverse a diverse & inclusive talent pool Starting a business as a Female Founder, lessons learned along the way. The boardroom will be interactive, key topics include: Our aim is that this Boardroom & Community will foster greater levels of diversity, inclusion, investment, mentorship, and innovation within this ecosystem. Our key aim is to provide a dedicated forum for our female network to meet with and learn from each other, to connect female CEOs, founders, and to foster investment and innovation across female-led businesses in this ecosystem.
The Women in Connected Health Boardroom will bring together senior leaders across fitness and wellbeing. Fitness, Health and Technology continue to be male-dominated industries, and whilst 2021 was a record year for VC investment in women-led start-ups, it is clear that more work needs to be done in order for this industry to reach parity. This International Women’s Day, we are delighted to launch our inaugural Women in Connected Health Boardroom.
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Join us at the 3rd Connected Health & Fitness Summit (formerly known as Fitness & Active Brands) to find out how to future-proof your company, position for growth, explore new business models and attract, engage and retain your customer base, throughout 2022 and beyond. Our Expanded Content for our 2022 Spring Flagship covers: How can these start-ups differentiate themselves from their competition, and encourage customer engagement, retention, and investment? How can they work with physical gyms to ensure customers are taken on an omnichannel journey? How this new type of consumer chooses to engage with fitness tech companies and gyms alike will determine the future successes, and failures, of these interconnected industries.Īgainst this backdrop, in the past 18 months there has been a flood of investment into Fitness Tech whether this be in the form of smart-fitness devices, fitness videos and tutorials, connected at-home fitness, or daily trackers and wearables. If 2020 was the year of the rise of at-home fitness and fitness technology investments, and 2021 was the year of ongoing economic and industry -wide uncertainty about how, if, and when clients would return to physical gyms, 2022 and beyond will be typified by the omnichannel consumer, and the “New, New Normal”. Covid has accelerated digital transformation within the fitness industry by at least a decade, and there isn’t a physical fitness brand or business on the planet that hasn’t been forced to adapt or to pivot to digital in some capacity in order to survive (many sadly have not). The world of fitness has changed drastically in the past 18+ months.