John Capodilupo is a co-founder of WHOOP, with Will Ahmed and Aurelian Nicolae. The company started in 2012 at Harvard and was incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs.
Capodilupo was chief technology officer until April 2022. WHOOP later hired Jaime Waydo, who had worked at Waymo and Apple, as CTO.
During his time as CTO the company shipped its first device in 2015. In October 2020 it raised about $100M at $1.2B, and in August 2021 it raised $200M at $3.6B.
On March 31, 2026 WHOOP raised a $575M Series G at a $10.1B valuation.