dacadoo ag - Digital health and wellbeing
Keeping healthy can be a challenge. Some lack the motivation to do sports, others fail to make sense out of the huge amount of data that fitness tracking apps, pedometers and digital scales provide. dacadoo offers a holistic solution for tracking, managing and testing one’s health in an easy, entertaining way.
The innovative, award-winning Swiss health engagement software company was founded in 2010 by Peter Ohnemus, who had sold his previous company the year before and had decided to take some time off to recuperate mentally and physically by ski mountaineering. In the beginning, Ohnemus struggled to walk up the mountain, but over the course of days and weeks, climbing heights became easier. This sparked the idea of tracking his physical progress in real time and visualising the effect the training has on his health and wellbeing in a simple, straightforward way. Thus the Health Score was created, a single number from one to 1,000, wh