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How to get onto Y Combinator's prestigious accelerator program, according to two founders who succeeded three weeks after launching their fitness gaming startup

The team behind fitness gaming startup Quell won a place on Y Combinator's prestigious accelerator program only three weeks after launching the startup.

At the beginning of 2020, Cameron Brookhouse and Lorenzo Spreafico started Quell, an interactive fitness game that uses a low-cost wearable made of smart resistance bands. The idea was part of Brookhouse's first-year solo project for RCA's innovation design engineering course, but soon grew into something much bigger.

The Quell team currently comrpises four people. As well as CEO Brookhouse and CPO Spreafico, serial entrepreneur Doug Stidolph is COO and Martin Tweedy, who has a PhD in sensor technology from Oxford University, has taken on the role of CTO. "We built on a lot of that for Quell. [Considering] how can we bring the things that make people love stuff like team sports at school into your living room," says Brookhouse.Y Combinator's accelerator program is notoriously competitive, which may discourage many new founders from applying. But Quell's success shows it's never too early to try.

 

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