Calopad conquers the Swiss market with Blackroll
Rothenburg/Bottinghofen - Calopad from Rothenburg in the canton of Lucerne has designed a further development of its thermotherapy device for the health firm Blackroll. The Blackroll Thermopad has already been established in the German-speaking DACH region as well as in the Benelux countries. The next item on the company’s agenda is to enter the US market.
Calopad AG and Blackroll AG are joining forces in the field of thermotherapy. The Lucerne-based start-up has developed a thermotherapy device for the health company, which is based in Bottinghofen in the canton of Thurgau and specializes in fascia training and regeneration, as Calopad writes in a statement. The Blackroll Thermopad is a further development of Calopad’s smart plaster that was launched back in 2020.
As was the case with its predecessor model Calopad, the Blackroll Thermopad can generate a constant deep heat of around 42 degrees Celsius. However, the new patch covers a larger area of the body and, at 8 hours, also has roughly twice the application time, according to a report published in the Swiss German-language daily newspaper “Luzerner Zeitung”.
Through the partnership with Blackroll, the Thermopad is currently sold across the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region and the Benelux countries. “The Thermopad sold out within 30 minutes on the first day”, comments Calopad co-founder Michael Breiter in the statement. “Without a marketing budget, it achieved seven-figure sales”, he adds. The Calopad predecessor model reportedly took three years to reach the same sales volume.
In a next step, Calopad will now target the US market with a new product. To this end, the company is seeking to raise a mid-seven-figure sum in a Series A funding round that is already underway. The prototype for the Calopad Pro, which was developed in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, consists of a thin film that produces cooling without generating waste heat.
