Apera (www.aperabags.com), founded in 2012, is a revolutionary sports bag company designing bags for today's Social-Athlete and committed to inspiring all athletes. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company is led by industry veterans Andrew Youngs and Frank Steed, who together possess more than three decades of experience in the retail, bags and luggage business. With their deep industry expertise, Youngs and Steed saw a void in the sports bag market despite the multitude of sports bags available. They realized today's bags are unorganized, targeted to a younger consumer and made with inferior quality materials that don't protect athletes from harmful bacteria and odor. Youngs and Steed also noticed that while athletes' health and fitness habits have continued to evolve, sports bags have largely remained unchanged.

Apera is pioneering a new sports bag market that embraces the fitness evolution from individual to social fitness activities by producing intelligently designed, healthy, pure sports bags. Apera has a deep understanding of what today's athletes expect from themselves, their gear and their sports bag.