nutrition
Dietitian startup Fay has been booming from Ozempic patients and emerges from stealth with $25M from General Catalyst, Forerunner
For years, Sammy Faycurry has been hearing from his registered dietitian (RD) mom and sister about how poorly many Americans eat and their struggles with delivering nutritional counseling. Although nearly…
Food-as-medicine startup Chiyo helps postpartum moms with nutrition after raising $3 million
Unlike other meal service providers that want you to be customers for life, Chiyo’s goal is to get you off of its program.
Heali’s app provides personalized nutrition guide to using food as medicine
The startup launched out of stealth with a personalized platform to eliminate the guesswork for people who want to treat and manage their health conditions using evidence-based nutrition protocols.
Soylent acquired by Starco Brands as nutrition company shifts into its ‘natural next stage’
Soylent, which is profitable and had been growing over the past few years, is Starco Brands’ third acquisition in six months.
With a focus on patients with chronic illness, Nourish hopes to help Americans eat better
Nourish connects users with a registered dietitian (RD) via telehealth and helps them get their consultations covered by health insurance.
Zoe, which went viral with its COVID-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health
Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting COVID-19…
Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises $1.7M to scale across MENA
There’s a vast unmet demand for medical consultation in developing markets like Egypt due to low doctor supply. As of 2018, Egypt’s doctor to citizen ratio stood at 1:2,000; you…
Faeth Therapeutics closes $20M seed to turn nutrition into a pillar of cancer treatment
A hot bowl of pad thai simmers in front of you. The taste and texture is exactly what you might expect from a quick takeout dinner, but it’s not just…
Bellabeat’s Ivy bracelet tries to do it all — but it can only do some
Wellness startup Bellabeat, which has primarily marketed its wearable health trackers to women, recently introduced Ivy, a stylish, comfortable health tracker with a long-lasting battery life, poised as a prettier version…
Ultrahuman raises $17.5M, touting a wearable blood glucose tracker
Fitness platform Ultrahuman has officially announced a $17.5 million Series B fundraise, with investment coming from early stage fund Alpha Wave Incubation, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Blume Ventures and…
Heights raises $2M for its subscription supplements aimed at new ‘braincare’ category
New wellness startup Heights is formally launching this week, focusing on a category it describes as ‘braincare’. The startup will market “ultra high quality, sustainable plant-based supplements that feed your brain”…
Nutrium app, which links dietitians and patients, raises $4.9M led by Indico Capital
Nutrium, a digital health startup which links dietitians and their patients via an app, has raised a €4.25 million seed round led by Indico Capital Partners, alongside the Social Innovation…
Treasure8 adds Chris Cowart to its executive team as it renews pushing its tech to reduce food waste
Chris Cowart, the longtime IDEO product designer, Singularity University faculty member and consultant to a variety of venture firms and tech projects, is joining the food preservation technology developer Treasure8…
At-home blood testing startup Baze rakes in $6 million from Nature’s Way
By now, the venture world is wary of blood testing startups offering health data from just a few drops of blood. However, Baze, a Swiss-based personal nutrition startup providing blood…
Kencko chugs down $3.4M to help you get more fruit and vegetables in your diet
Kencko, a company that wants to help people eat more fruit and vegetables in their daily life, is entering feast mode after it announced a $3.4 million seed round for…
Soylent is leaving liquids behind as it journeys deeper into the packaged food business with a selection of snack-sized bars. The 100-calorie bar has 5 grams of plant protein, 36…
Nutrigene wants to personalize your vitamins using your genetic code
Vitamins are proving to be a lucrative industry in the United States. Just last year vitamin sales pulled in roughly $37 billion for the U.S. economy. That’s up from $28 billion…
This company will tell you which vitamins and supplements to take based on your DNA
Nutrigene believes your genes may hold the secret to what you might be missing in your diet. The company will send you tailor-made liquid vitamin supplements based on a lifestyle…
Study: Seasons have little effect on dieting app reporting but the day of week does
If you’ve gotten three apps and a Fitbit so you can get skinnier this year, don’t worry so much about summer beach season or holiday weight gain. Instead, worry about…
It may well turn out, as technologists are already suspecting, that AI makes everything better. But plenty of startup founders are still in the experimental phase of figuring out whether –…
Care/of takes on the vitamin industry with customized nutrition packs
There’s no end to the bottles, packs and pills of various nutritional supplements out there, but vitamin startup Care/of plans to stand out by tailoring the vitamins you pop to…
Zesty hires Nate Keller, Will Douillet to ramp up healthy corporate catering
Food delivery startup Zesty is rolling out its office catering service beyond San Francisco to locations throughout the Silicon Valley peninsula, and has brought on two food and hospitality executives…
Subscription-based “box of the month” services have been fairly hit-or-miss so far. While some like Birchbox are still going strong, elsewhere, smaller startups – and even experiments from the world’s largest…
Kurbo Health Debuts A Mobile Service To Help Fight Childhood Obesity
This afternoon on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in New York, Kurbo Health debuted its mobile subscription service designed to teach children — and their families — how to eat healthy.…
Sources: Munchery Raising An Additional $20M For Its Gourmet Meal Delivery Service
San Francisco-based Munchery, the startup that offers prepared gourmet meals on demand, is in the process of raising a new $20 million funding round, multiple sources familiar with the deal…
With $4M From Khosla & More, ALOHA Launches A Wellness Platform That Helps You Drink Your Greens
With the launch of Aloha today, we can add another name to the fray of startups attempting to give us better ways to live healthier lifestyles. Founded by former nutritionists,…
Google Adds Nutrition Info For Over 1,000 Fruits, Vegetables, Meats And Meals To Its Search Results
Google keeps adding new information to its Knowledge Graph, and today it is bringing nutrition info to its search results pages. Want to know how many calories there are in…
