LeKe

LeKe Sports, founded in Hangzhou in 2015, is a leading sports and fitness empowerment platform. With the mission of allowing everyone to equally enjoy sports and health resources and rights, and the vision of responding to 100 million people's sports and health needs daily, it pioneered the "24-hour", "monthly payment", "smart", and "no sales pitch" gym model. Relying on the core concepts of "coach disintermediation" and "venue sharing", it uses "internet thinking", "big data algorithms", and "IoT technology" to empower coaches and venues as well as other social public resources, achieving supply-side reform in sports and fitness scenarios and services. It is committed to building a 1-kilometer fitness circle, providing consumers with convenient, cost-effective, personalized, warm, and joyful sports and fitness services.
The founding team of LeKe Sports includes top technical experts from internet companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, NetEase, and Helijia, senior executives from retail industries like Decathlon, Wanda, Intime, Starbucks, and Tsutaya Books, and leading experts from Asia Fitness Academy, ComfortZone, Japan's Joyfit, and Taiwan's Alexander. Since its establishment, it has successively obtained a $3 million Series A funding led by IDG and Xintianyu; a 100 million RMB Series B funding led by Ttoutou Shidao and Huaxing New Economy Fund with IDG Capital following; and a 300 million RMB Series C funding led by Hillhouse Capital with Huaxing New Economy Fund, IDG Capital, and Yongchuang following.
As of now, LeKe has over 3.2 million registered users and 6,000+ contracted coaches, with an average daily active users per store of 300-500 person-times and a monthly service radius of nearly 20,000 person-times. In terms of store layout, it has entered 8 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Jinan, with a total of 410 stores, and will expand to 1,000 stores by the end of 2018.