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Gainful

Gainful is performance nutrition that unlocks your full potential. We provide personalized products and 1:1 Registered Dietitian support to empower active people to reach their unique goals by transforming their health. Founded in 2017, Gainful is backed by some of the world’s best venture investors (including Y Combinator, BrandProject, and Courtside VC). Our current products are Personalized Protein, Personalized Hydration, Personalized Pre-Workout, and our line of Performance Boosts (Collagen

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3883

Gainful is performance nutrition that unlocks your full potential. We provide personalized products and 1:1 Registered Dietitian support to empower active people to reach their unique goals by transforming their health. Founded in 2017, Gainful is backed by some of the world’s best venture investors (including Y Combinator, BrandProject, and Courtside VC). Our current products are Personalized Protein, Personalized Hydration, Personalized Pre-Workout, and our line of Performance Boosts (Collagen

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Gainful is classified as Healthcare from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Personalized ProteinPersonalized HydrationPersonalized Pre-WorkoutPerformance BoostsGainfulCollagenactive peoplepersonalized products
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Gainful

Healthcare · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 73

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shared product terms: active, found, 2017, back; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

LemonBox

match 70

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shared product terms: nutrition, personaliz, goal, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

UNISON

match 49

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shared product terms: found, people, back, some; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Shape (ShapeScale)

match 49

Shape is a health tech startup based in San Francisco, California. We are backed by Y Combinator and the company is led by experienced hardware serial entrepreneurs. Shape has designed a product called ShapeScale. ShapeScale is transforming the way we measure our health goals by enabling you to visualize yourself in 3D and see where you have been losing fat and gaining muscle.

shared product terms: health, back, combinator, transform; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

ZoneIn

match 40

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shared product terms: nutrition, hydration, personaliz, unique

Omega 3 Nutrition

match 32

Nutrition brand committed to enhancing brain health through the use of organic, brain-boosting ingredients.

shared product terms: nutrition, health, boost; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare