Last updated August 24, 2026

Adapted

Providing AI physical therapy support for athletes.

Physical therapySports healthHealth AI

Physical therapy is often limited by access, cost, and between appointments. Athletes are sent home with generic exercises and little feedback. The work addresses the injury rather than the underlying weakness behind it. Athletes then get hurt in the same place again.

Adapted is providing AI physical therapy support for athletes, available on iOS. It builds personalized and mobility programs around each athlete's sport, injury history and goals. Every exercise shows what it targets and why it was chosen. Sessions get harder, easier, or shift focus based on how the athlete responds.

Key Investor Signals

More than 1,000 athletes using the app

Adapted launched on the US App Store in April 2026 and passed 1,000 athletes across running, lifting, climbing, cycling, swimming, , and military training.

Shipped 25 releases in under four months.

Between 14 April and 6 August 2026, Adapted shipped 25 releases that added program generation, in-session exercise swapping, guided , and integration.

Selected for Y Combinator Winter 2024

Adapted joined 's Winter 2024 batch.

Other Positive Signals

  • Added Strava integration that automatically posts completed prehab sessions.
  • Founder spent six years engineering at Palo Alto Networks, , and Uber.

Team

Albert Jo

Founder

  • Sales engineer at from 2022 to 2023.
  • Software engineer at Uber from 2020 to 2022.
  • on granted US patent 10,810,042, a distributed job scheduler assigned to Rubrik, filed while he was a software engineer there from 2017 to 2020.
  • Software engineer at Palo Alto Networks from 2016 to 2017.

Product

Adapted is an iOS prehab and mobility app for athletes who are not currently injured. It creates personalized exercise programs designed to address weak or high-risk areas before they lead to injury. The company states that the app is not intended to replace treatment for an active injury.

Personalization

Onboarding captures the athlete's sport, training load, and injury history. Adapted uses this information to build a program covering the body regions most relevant to that athlete.

Adaptive sessions

Athlete feedback changes the difficulty or focus of the next session. Each exercise explains what it targets and why it was selected.

Delivery and pricing

Sessions last 10 to 15 minutes and mostly use bodyweight exercises. Adapted Pro costs $39.99 per year or $8.99 per month.

Market Overview

Sports injury prevention sits between clinical care and fitness software. Physical therapy is typically purchased after an injury, while fitness apps focus mainly on training and performance. Adapted targets athletes who are still active but want to reduce the risk of recurring or preventable injuries.

The commercial model is direct to consumer. Athletes already pay for rehabilitation and training subscriptions, but preventive exercise is rarely funded by insurers outside clinical care. Research suggests that prevention programs work when athletes complete them, making adherence the central challenge.

Annual US Sports Injury Episodes
8.6M

Estimated medically attended sports and recreation injury episodes each year in the United States.

Injury Reduction at High Adherence
47%

Lower injury rate among athletes who completed at least 84% of their prescribed prevention sessions.

US Physical Therapy Services Market
$52.31B

Estimated value of the US physical therapy services market in 2025, projected to reach $76.61 billion by 2033.

Global Fitness App Market
$13.9B → $33.6B

Projected market growth from 2026 to 2033, representing a 13.4% compound annual growth rate.

Comparable Outcomes

Digital musculoskeletal care

Hinge Health

IPO at ~$437M

built software-guided musculoskeletal care for acute injuries, chronic pain and post-surgical recovery. Patients exercise at home with support from a clinical team. Hinge went public in 2025 at $32 a share, raising about $437 million. It reported $213 million in Q2 2026 revenue, up 53% year over year.

Injury prevention software at scale

Catapult Sports

$140.7M in annual revenue

Catapult sells subscription software and wearable devices that help professional teams manage performance, recovery and injury risk. More than 5,500 teams across 40 sports use its products. It demonstrates that injury prevention can support a large recurring software business. Catapult generated US$140.7 million in revenue for the year ended March 2026, an increase of 19% from the previous year.

Consumer health app with a paid tier

MyFitnessPal

$475M acquisition

built a calorie and nutrition logging app with a large free user base and a paid premium tier. acquired MyFitnessPal in February 2015 for $475 million, when the app had roughly 80 million users.

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