The Team Of Opposites Behind AdaptBionic Helps Athletes Adjust

AdaptBionic Founders Greg Bantista, left, and Chas Feuss.

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When life throws you a curveball, you have to learn how to adapt. Whether it’s a wrist injury that keeps you from playing your favorite sport or, say, even a global pandemic, you have to learn how to adjust in order to keep on going. 

AdaptBionic, a new Chapel Hill-based startup, is hoping to help people adapt to life’s unexpected mishaps. The company makes smart prosthetics and sports wearables, and aims to help people with injuries or disabilities participate in sports and physical activity.  

Founders Chas Feuss and Greg Bantista have only been working on AdaptBionic full time for a few months now, bootstrapping the company and hoping to become revenue-positive as early as possible. 

In the fall, the pair was named a winner of a $10K NC IDEA MICRO grant. Receiving that funding—and the stamp of approval that goes with it—gave them validation that their idea was worth something, Bantista said. 

Feuss and Bantista met during their time in the MBA program at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. AdaptBionic was not the first startup idea Feuss pitched to Bantista, Feuss said, but the first idea that Feuss saw Bantista actually get excited about. 

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