Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing
The startup provides an e-prescribing marketplace for the booming cash-pay clinic market.
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Whoop’s fitness band is cool. Can it stay cool as the company grows?
Whoop founder Will Ahmed has spent 14 years building a health wearable beloved by elite athletes and is now racing Oura — and the FDA — to turn it into something that could one day save your life.
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Mantis Biotech is making ‘digital twins’ of humans to help solve medicine’s data availability problem
Mantis takes disparate sources of data to make synthetic datasets that can be used to build so-called “digital twins” of the human body, representing anatomy, physiology and behavior.
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The company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.
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Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup
The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.
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Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
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Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain
The device could help address multiple neurological conditions if it proves successful. One early use could be delivering gentle electrical stimulation to damaged brain or spinal cord cells to encourage healing.
