three people.
one locker room.
In January 2021, Nicolas Scargle was recruited to play for the University of South Florida Men's Soccer team. That same year, Rima El Brouzi arrived at USF and joined the same team as a student manager. Mathis Fürst Haugen was recruited a year later, in January 2022.
By that spring the three of us were in the same building every day. Same practices, same travel, same season. Nicolas and Mathis became roommates and stayed roommates for four years.
None of us came to USF to start a company.
Then in the fall of 2022, Mathis's freshman season ended with a groin injury.
It took a while to explain. The answer wasn't a bad tackle or a training error. It was chronic dehydration that had been building quietly for months — and nobody caught it, because there was no way to see it.
The staff weren't wrong. They had the tools everyone else had. Sweat-rate estimates. Body-weight checks. Athletes logging water in an app after practice. All of it either guesswork or self-reported, which in a live training environment means it isn't reliable.
Every other performance metric was tracked to the decimal. Hydration was a guess.
The three of us were looking at the same problem from three different positions. Mathis had just lived it. Rima was watching it play out from the sideline every day while finishing a computer science degree and doing AI research. Nicolas was in team leadership, seeing how decisions actually get made inside a program.
By 2024 it had stopped being a conversation and become work. Nicolas was team captain, Mathis was assistant captain, and Rima was still managing the team.
We incorporated on April 9, 2025. Rima leads the software, AI, and data infrastructure. Mathis leads hardware, fundraising, and partnerships. Nicolas came on as managing partner to own manufacturing, go-to-market, and the commercial side — the person the two of us already trusted, who had lived the same four years in the same building.
Nicolas has since graduated and moved to West Virginia to keep playing. Rima is still on the sideline at USF.
Since incorporating we've built working prototypes, secured a manufacturing partnership, filed for patent protection, launched an IRB-approved research study with USF Athletics, and signed five D1 programs for our Fall 2026 pilot.
We're still early. Pre-revenue, pre-ship, and we say that plainly. But we didn't meet at a hackathon or a networking event. We met on a soccer team, and we're building this from the same place the problem showed up.
