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Gainful: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that provides subscriptions for its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.

gainful.com LinkedIn San Francisco, United States 51-100 employees
Dietary Supplements Health Care Personal Health Wellness B2C
Total raised
$7.5M
Rounds
2
Latest
Series B
Sep 2024

Gainful has raised $7.5M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series B announced in Sep 2024.

Gainful Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$7.5M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
1 with no disclosed amount
Latest funding round
Series B
Sep 2024
Employees
51-100
reported band
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States

Latest funding round on record: Sep 2024.

Gainful Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series B
Undisclosed
Series A
$7.5M

1 of 2 rounds was announced without a disclosed amount and is excluded from the total.

Gainful raised $7.5M in a Series A announced in Jan 2021.

3.7 years later, a Series B was announced in Sep 2024 with no disclosed amount.

Gainful Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Jahaan Ansari
Founder
—
Dean Kelly
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Gainful team: 1 of 2 have an email address on file.

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Gainful Funding Compared to Other Food and Beverage Startups

Segment
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Median round
30,234
$7.6M
4,401
$31M

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Gainful Funding FAQs

What does Gainful do?

Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that provides subscriptions for its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.

How much funding has Gainful raised?

Gainful has raised $7.5M across 2 rounds on record.

When did Gainful last raise funding?

Gainful's most recent funding round on record was announced in Sep 2024. The amount was not disclosed.

Who founded Gainful?

FundedIQ lists Jahaan Ansari (Founder) at Gainful.

Who is the CEO of Gainful?

Dean Kelly is listed as CEO at Gainful.

Where is Gainful headquartered?

Gainful is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How many employees does Gainful have?

Gainful is in the 51-100 employee band.

About FundedIQ's Gainful Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Gainful is left off this page rather than filled in.

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