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73rd percentile
DOGPOUND founder turned GP at wellness-focused Crush It Ventures
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 72th percentile
- Partner at Crush It Ventures, an investment fund he joined in November 2024 focused on early-stage wellness founders.
- Active GP and fund manager at Crush It Ventures, a dynamic investment fund dedicated to identifying and nurturing promising wellness ventures.
- Has made at least one active investment through Crush It Ventures, including Elemind Technologies.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)DOGPOUND raised $11.6M per SEC Form D filings, the most recent in October 2023.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of DOGPOUND, a celebrity fitness brand he founded in March 2016.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Kirk Myers has a Wikipedia article confirming his public notability as founder of Dogpound Gyms.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Also founder of Kirk Myers Fitness, a private boutique training company he started in 2003.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)DOGPOUND was co-founded with partners, confirming the company had co-founders.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Partner at Crush It Ventures, an investment fund he joined in November 2024 focused on early-stage wellness founders.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active GP and fund manager at Crush It Ventures, a dynamic investment fund dedicated to identifying and nurturing promising wellness ventures.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Crush It Ventures was founded in 2024, giving approximately 1 year of investing experience to date.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Has made at least one active investment through Crush It Ventures, including Elemind Technologies.
What you likely need
You're a fitness operator turning investor, and the events that will move the needle most are ones that get Crush It Ventures in front of serious LPs and co-investment partners before your fund is fully formalized. You also need face time with established wellness-tech VCs and founders who can validate your portfolio thesis and send you deal flow. Lean into your celebrity network and DOGPOUND brand as conversation starters — they're your clearest differentiator in a room full of traditional investors.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA wellness-tech LP dinner with family offices and high-net-worth individuals already backing funds like Forerunner and Coefficient Capital, where Kirk can soft-pitch the Crush It Ventures Fund I close and the DOGPOUND brand as a differentiated LP story
- introsA closed-door roundtable for founders and investors who have successfully converted high-profile talent and celebrity relationships (à la Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey) into LP commitments or brand ambassador deals for their portfolio companies
- introsAn emerging GP dinner with established seed and Series A funds — including firms like Forerunner, Maveron, and Slow Ventures — actively looking for operator-led co-GPs or scouts in the wellness and fitness vertical
- positioningA wellness founder networking night spotlighting early-stage companies in sleep, longevity, and mental performance — the exact categories Kirk's portfolio (Elemind, DivineTime, Caliwater) sits in — to surface inbound deal flow and validate his public portfolio thesis
- tacticalA founder dinner with operators who have successfully taken premium fitness or lifestyle brands through a Series A and into multi-market expansion — think Equinox, Barry's, or SoulCycle alumni — to pressure-test DOGPOUND's unit economics story and growth round timing
- positioningA roundtable with mission-aligned investors and LPs backing underrepresented founders in wellness — including organizations like Fearless Fund and Harlem Capital — where Kirk can workshop and publicly commit to a written Crush It Ventures investment thesis
- fundraisingA happy hour with founders and bankers who have navigated exits or strategic acquisitions in the premium fitness and wellness space, to help Kirk think through DOGPOUND's valuation narrative ahead of a potential liquidity event