Our company is growing and growing. We hope WorkSmart Labs grows to be the greatest
company in fitness technology and continues to have an energetic working environment.
Here, the story begins...
2011
December
- WorkSmart Labs is now Noom Inc.!
June
- Noom Weight Loss (Android) passes one million users in less than 30 days, breaking our
record for new users in such a short amount time.
- Noom and CardioTrainer users have lost a total of half a million pounds of fat,
burning over five billion calories. Our users burn over 16,000 calories/minute
exercising.
- WorkSmart Labs apps have appeared in the hands of over 6 million users.
- Artem gives the keynote speech at the Mobile Health Expo 2011 at New York City.
May
- Noom Weight Loss is launched on the Android Market.
- Daesang, a food giant in Korea, licenses Calorific on the Korean market for one
year.
- The Uplinq 2011 conference invites Artem to be a panelist on the topic of Wireless
Health Technology.
- John Edwards (not the Senator) joins us as a Technical Communications Specialist.
April
March
- Gennadiy Shafranovich, an amazing engineer with a wealth of industry experience,
joins WorkSmart Labs. Gennadiy brings a wealth of product and engineering expertise,
quickly becoming a force multiplier for the team.
- WorkSmart users burn over 7000 calories/minute exercising.
February
- We are invited to attend the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona,
Spain by the Google Android team. We demo CardioTrainer, Calorific to the rest
of the world.
January
- WorkSmart Labs passes 4 million users.
2010
December
September
- WorkSmart Labs passes 2 million users.
- CardioTrainer integrates with
Google Health. We became the largest data feeder of Google Health.
July
- We move into a dedicated office in Chelsea, transforming two former gallery spaces
into an engineering office.
- Calorific Food Tracker is launched.
- Johannes Krämer joins WorkSmart Labs with a background in game design and
computer science to help us make weight loss more fun and addictive.
May
- Vera Kern, a computer science expert pursuing her PhD in art history, relocates from
Germany to join our engineering staff. Her passion and expertise allows us to execute
even faster.
- We are invited to attend Google I/O 2010 to demonstrate our CardioTrainer in the
Sandbox; we meet many amazing engineers.
April
- CardioTrainer (Android) passes 1 million users.
March
- Motorola invites us to CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas to demo CardioTrainer in the MotoDev booth.
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NTT Docomo announces our partnership and CardioTrainer Japanization at CTIA.
January
- Jane Sakong joins as our new Executive Chef. Her delightful energy is the secret sauce
in each tasty meal.
- Charlie Sneath joins as our new Communications Director, focusing on making sure lines
of communication are always open with our users and business partners.
2009
November
- Google invites us to demonstrate CardioTrainer as one of four “Best Android Apps” at
the Open Mobile Summit 2009 San Francisco, CA.
October
- Motorola launches the Droid with joint marketing support from Google. CardioTrainer is
featured in most major media releases, and our user base grows steadily.
June
- We raise more angel funds from a handful of Googlers and are very happy to have such
strong support.
Bernhard Seefeld, a senior Senior Product Manger from Google Map, becomes
one of our mentors.
March
- We raise the second round of Angel investment from Korea.
- We launch our first paid application on the Android Market, the Race Against Yourself
module for CardioTrainer. We celebrate the first earnings by buying a bottle of wine
with the money.
2008
December
- CardioTrainer users get a Christmas upgrade: bug fixes, richer statistics and voice
output.
Download numbers get a big Christmas spike.
- We complete our first mobile hardware prototype in collaboration with Pocobor.
November
- Artem quits Google to dedicate his efforts full-time to WorkSmart Labs.
- First beta version of CardioTrainer (0.9.0) is released on the day when Android Market
opens. It quickly becomes the top rated fitness application on the Market.
- WorkSmart Labs forges a strategic partnership with
Pocobor, a team of world-class
mechatronics engineers.
September
- After an extensive and delicious screening process, we hire Soojin Kim as our Chef.
We give her the title Chief of Tasty Operations.
- We decide to enter the area of Mobile Fitness and start to develop CardioTrainer.
August
- We relocate the office to a brand-new penthouse in Harlem. We call it our
"Kingdom".
- Mark & Ketill quit their Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin to work full-time at
WorkSmart.
July
- We develop prototypes for motion tracking technology for free-weight exercise,
and work on prototypes for cable-based weight machine exercise.
March
- WorkSmart Labs raises the first round of Angel investment from Korea.
- Michael DiSanto (Reed Smith LLP) joins WorkSmart Labs as legal counsel.
2007
November
- We improve the Cardio Entertainment prototype, add TV capabilities, and permanently
install it at a local gym. It lasts 6 months without any maintenance.
- WorkSmart Labs, Inc. is established as a C-Corporation.
Mr. Jin W. Park becomes the first WorkSmart Labs Inc. financial advisor.
August
- First Cardio Entertainment prototype is completed and installed at a local gym for
several days for field testing and market research.
Gym members age 9 to 65 give great feedback.
May
- WorkSmart Labs hires its first two full-time employees,
and we start operations in our first headquarters in an apartment in Astoria, Queens.
Our summer adventure begins!
2006
- After many late nights and long weekends, WorkSmart Labs is born.
Saeju and Artem draft the business plan, and start to look for additional
engineers to join the project.
2005
- Artem gets the initial idea to use sensor technology to make cardio and weight
exercise interactive and fun, and begins a long period of product research &
prototyping.
- Artem meets Saeju, and they soon realize their complementary strengths will make them
a great team for this project. They name it "Humantra" for "Human Training".
