Speediance

Speediance (速境 SPEEDIANCE) is a Chinese smart fitness brand founded in December 2020 by Liu Tao, a former product manager at FITURE and XGIMI whose products had cumulatively generated over 1 billion RMB in sales . The company's core innovation is replacing physical weights with digital resistance through direct-drive motor systems, allowing adaptive, precision-controlled strength training .

Speediance raised multiple early rounds led by FreeS Fund (Pre-A in spring 2022) and Yuanhe Origin (two consecutive rounds totaling 50 million RMB by autumn 2023), with FreeS Fund participating in both . Its debut product, GYM MONSTER, launched on Kickstarter in late 2021 at an average price of $2,100, raising nearly $600,000 and becoming the platform's only digital strength-training product .

The company targets both home and gym (B端) scenarios with space-efficient, freestanding designs, and has emphasized overseas expansion—particularly in the U.S. mature fitness market . At CES 2026, its Gym Monster 2 and Gym Nano won "Best of CES 2026" awards from The Wearable and Computer Bild respectively, signaling growing international recognition . FreeS Fund frames Speediance as a cross-disciplinary project leveraging China's robotics, motor, and sensor supply chains to digitize an industry that had seen little fundamental change for decades .