Ari Gootnick

Helping founders & leaders perform at their peak without burning out | Co-Founder & CEO at lume

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 1 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Jan 2025
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
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2025
Co-Founder & CEO
Jun 2025
lume is a 1:1 coaching membership for high-performance teams to optimize their work and health together. ⚪️ We mostly work with founders & tech leaders—high ambition, high stress. Our coaches are former founders, CEOs, & executive leaders with 10+ years of experience. Certified, heavily trained, and now coaching full-time. We combine career + health coaching, because you cant bring your best self to work if youre not taking care of yourself. Youll work with two dedicated coaches—one for your career, and one for your health (sleep, nutrition, exercise, biohacking). Youll also get to join curated group workshops, access our library of digital resources & wellbeing perks, and more. Join us! 🔗 Website: https://www.join-lume.com/ ✏️ Email: hello@join-lume.com 📞 Book a call with us: https://calendly.com/d/ckdf-3gh-w4k/15min-call-with-lume
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Jan 2025
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
2024
Founder
Mar 2024
Within facilitates transformative yoga and breathwork sessions.
2021
Program Associate
Apr 2021
Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.
2018
University Partnerships Associate
Oct 2018
Bird is on a mission to provide eco-friendly transportation for everyone.
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