The Albany Gazette - Boomerang Ventures Leads Strategic Investment in IMPOWER HEALTH, Appoints Trent McCracken as CEO

INDIANAPOLIS, IN / ACCESS Newswire / February 17, 2026 / Boomerang Ventures, a leading digital health tech-focused venture studio and fund, leads the pre-seed round for IMPOWER HEALTH, a first-of-its-kind health-tech company redefining how mobility is measured, managed, and improved. With this investment, IMPOWER HEALTH joins the Boomerang Ventures portfolio and appoints healthcare and technology executive Trent McCracken as Chief Executive Officer.

IMPOWER HEALTH leverages patented software to capture clinically meaningful gait metrics without wearables, cameras, or workflow disruption. The platform enables objective, reimbursable mobility insights across rehabilitation, performance, and preventive health settings.

"Impower Health represents exactly the type of category-defining innovation we look to support. Their technology sits at the intersection of rehab, fitness, and long-term mobility health, turning everyday treadmills into clinical-grade diagnostic tools," said Eric Beier, MD, Partner & Chief Medical Officer of Boomerang Ventures. "With Trent McCracken stepping in as CEO, Impower has the leadership in place to translate this convergence into scalable impact."

From Cardio Equipment to Clinical Intelligence

IMPOWER HEALTH is setting a new global standard in movement health through a high-precision diagnostic platform. By enabling treadmills to generate high-quality, lab-grade gait data, IMPOWER HEALTH replaces subjective observation with objective, data-driven clinical intelligence, accelerating recovery, optimizing fitness, and helping prevent the loss of mobility and independence.

The company's technology supports a continuum of care, from post-acute rehabilitation to performance optimization, while laying the groundwork for a library of gait biomarkers that enable the detection and prevention of mobility decline long before it begins.

A Market Ripe for Disruption

IMPOWER HEALTH is entering a rapidly expanding mobility health and rehabilitation technology market, driven by aging demographics, rising musculoskeletal disorders, and growing demand for quantifiable, reimbursable functional assessments. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 26,000 outpatient rehab clinics and 10,000 mid-to-premium fitness facilities operate approximately 230,000 treadmills across clinical and commercial settings, according to research.

By turning the world's most common piece of exercise equipment into a high-precision diagnostic tool, IMPOWER HEALTH is moving mobility health from a subjective 'wait and see' model to an objective 'track and treat' reality. This allows clinicians to validate progress with reimbursable data, while active patients gain the real-time feedback needed to identify 'silent' mobility decline before it leads to injury or loss of independence.

"Boomerang Ventures has provided the environment necessary to move beyond simple acceleration into deep market de-risking," said Trent McCracken, CEO of IMPOWER HEALTH. "Their engagement has been instrumental in pressure-testing our commercialization strategy and refining our IP strategy for long-term OEM licensing. This operational partnership has allowed us to enter 2026 with a highly credible, execution-ready foundation."

Leadership Driving the Next Chapter

As CEO, McCracken will guide IMPOWER HEALTH through commercialization, strategic partnerships, and capital formation.

"One of the most compelling aspects of Impower Health is the opportunity to make a tangible difference in people's lives by restoring and preserving mobility, a core component of health and independence. The healthcare market is demanding integrated, data-driven solutions, and we are uniquely positioned to accelerate growth and convert these gait metrics into clinical intelligence," added McCracken.

Founded in 2021 by Doug Miller, a biomedical engineer and former Chief Architect and Senior Director of Cardio Engineering at Life Fitness, IMPOWER HEALTH emerged from Miller's decades-long career at the intersection of biomechanics and treadmill engineering. In 2020, his collaboration with the Biomechanics Team at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and UNeTech unlocked a breakthrough in quantifying and tracking gait and mobility through treadmills, forming the basis for IMPOWER HEALTH's technology.

"Bringing on the right CEO at this stage is about preparing the company for growth," said Doug Miller, Founder & Chief Product Officer of IMPOWER HEALTH. "Trent brings the operational leadership and decisive discipline needed to translate our technology into real-world impact, while staying true to the vision that inspired our founding."

About Boomerang Ventures

Founded in 2019, Boomerang Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early growth-stage connected health technology companies. Leveraging a combination studio and venture fund, Boomerang provides the collaborative direction, deep industry expertise, and continuum of support founders need to take their innovations from ideation to market. Boomerang believes that better patient care begins with identifying and solving the biggest challenges in healthcare. Boomerang Ventures is proudly and strategically based in Indianapolis, where the healthcare and entrepreneurial business climate is a thriving community ripe with opportunities. With a secure niche at the intersection of health technology, studio-fund synchronization, and the Midwest, Boomerang differentiates itself from the competition. Boomerang Ventures is Healthcare Innovation, Reimagined. For more information, visit boomerang.vc.

About IMPOWER HEALTH, Inc.

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, IMPOWER HEALTH provides rehab clinicians and fitness trainers with the objective clinical data they need to proactively manage mobility health. The company's patented software transforms standard treadmills into real-time gait labs-capturing precise, clinically meaningful movement metrics without wearables or cameras. By making advanced gait and mobility analytics as accessible as heart rate and blood pressure, IMPOWER HEALTH accelerates recovery, optimizes performance, and helps preserve independence. For more information, visit goimpower.com.

Media Contact:

Audra Wait, President
Wait & Co. (on behalf of Boomerang Ventures)
[email protected] | 615.504.8812

SOURCE: Boomerang Ventures

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