Team Skimble is rocking out today!  We're thrilled to announce that we will be as part of the inaugural Rock Health program this summer in San Francisco.

Our mission is to enable and empower an entrepreneurial cure for the relative lack of innovation in the health sector. The world of patient care and healthy living is foreign to the technological creativity found in social media, games and other verticals. Rock Health directly targets the gap between these ecosystems, enabling high-impact innovation. - Halle Tecco, Managing Director of Rock Health

We've been fortunate to grow organically thus far and lead with top free Healthcare & Fitness apps.  We're pysched to continue to spread our active wings with the support and encouragement of the health and fitness community at large!

Rock Health partners include Mayo Clinic, Nike, Accel Partners, NEA, Aberdare Ventures, Mohr Davidow, Harvard Medical School, Microsoft and Qualcomm to name a few:

We'll also have access to an incredible support team along with rockstar mentors such as Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, Frank Moss, MIT Media Lab director, Michael Abbott, VP of Engineering at Twitter, Ron Gutman, founder of HealthTap & Wellsphere, Dave Morin, co-founder of Path, Emily Chang, co-founder of Ideacodes, Lee Byron, interactive information designer at Facebook, and Charles Huang, co-founder of GuitarHero.

And, we're in great company!  Skimble will have the pleasure to bunk with these Rock Health startups over the summer program: Activate Health, BrainBot, CellScope, Genomera, Health In Reach, Heart Beat, Omada Health, Pipette, WeSprout

A few articles: AllThingsD/WSJ, TechCrunch, MobileHealthNews, FierceMobile, Xonomy

The program begins in two weeks.  Stay tuned for more updates including that of the Rock Health Startup Launch Event at our new office space!

Yesterday was a very significant day in the Skimble timeline.  Why, you may ask?  Well, it was the day we celebrated the birth of our somewhat elusive co-founder...

Who is he?  Gabriel Vanrenen.

Sure, Gabe doesn't always come out to the startup and tech events but he does jam pack his life with Skimble fun.  I (Maria) would like to wish Gabe a happy birthday and share how thankful and grateful I am to have him in my life.  He's clever, witty and very, very adventurous:

We've trekked to K2 base camp together.  We've slepted along a big-wall rock ledge on the most overhanging wall in North America.  We were winners of a tandem bike race in Yangshuo, China.  We've spontaneously puledl one-day ski trips to Tahoe.  Let's just say we have a shared passion for being nimble, having fun, and building consumer web products that inspire active lifestyles.  And that's why we decided to team up as the co-founders of Skimble.

Gabe's also a repeat entrepreneur with a very strong technical background - it doesn't matter if he's developing using Ruby On Rails, Objective C / iPhone, or Java - he can whip up a sophisticated technical solution before most of us can finish doing a jumping jack.

Gabe was born in Boulder, CO, grew up near Boston, MA, and he's pictured here aging like a fine wine in San Francisco:

Here we present Gabe with a homemade, delicious choco-haupia bday pie:

But that certainly wasn't the theme of the night...

If you know Gabe, you know he's serious about dumplings.  Fittingly, we threw him a surprise dumpling-dinner bday party last night.  The menu consisted of a ton of things in dumpling form including shui jing bao (Chinese steamed dumplings), wontons (Chinese boiled dumplings in soup), sue gow / gyozas / pot stickers (Chinese pan fried dumplings), siu mei (Cantonese / Hong Kong steamed dim sum dumplings), mochi (Japanese rice dessert balls), tangyuan (Chinese gluten rice dessert balls in ginger broth), samosas (Indian-style stuffed dumpling appetizer), and even some Humphry Slocombe ice cream topped with a fortune cookie.

At the end of the night, I think we made sure Gabe had eaten as many dumplings as his was old.  His response?  One word: 'Stuffed'

Meet Skimble: the online tool to help you plan, track and discover your active life.  We want to help you get inspired to be active with local workouts and far away travel adventures!

Who are we?  Gabe and Maria are the adventure seekers behind Skimble.  Gabe was born in Boulder, CO, grew up near Boston, and enjoys climbing, hiking, and skiing.  Maria is from Canada, was a former gymnast, and enjoys yoga, pilates, and climbing.  We love being active and creating meaningful technology.  This passion of ours led us to develop Skimble.  You can find out more about us here.

It's been about a month since we've beta launched and we wanted to share with you a few summer highlights.

For starters, it's been whirlwind of startup activity at Skimble HQ.  We participated in the inaugural semester of TheFunded Founder Institute and there was never was a dull moment.  TechCrunch helped announce our beta launch in September, where they included a fun video of co-founder Maria Ly demonstrating one of her silly human tricks:

You may have also seen us on Thrillist, Examiner, TheFunded, and GigaOM!

Of course, we've been really active too and have shared news updates and photos on our Skimble Facebook page and Skimble Twitter page.
We also made activity-based trips out to Yosemite National Park, North and South Lake Tahoe, Malibu Creek State Park CA, Smith Rock State Park OR, Boulder CO, NYC, and even Toronto Canada.

We're really excited about sharing Skimble with the active world and love getting feedback from our users.

So what are you waiting for?  Be nimble with Skimble!