Next Coast Ventures

🚀 Big news! We, Endless Health, a leader in accurate at-home blood testing and preventive medicine, just secured $4.5M in Series Seed funding! The round was led by Next Coast Ventures, and major investors Asset Management Ventures and Antler Elevate. We’re developing the first fully at-home clinical trial services, including self-home collection kits, central lab services, and more. This means accurate, affordable, and accessible testing for thousands of Americans, tracking crucial blood markers for longevity. Endless Health will conclude its first clinical trials later this summer for at-home and point-of-care medical devices that promote longevity. Co-founder and CEO Cooper Galvin, PhD shares, “These funds will allow us to scale up our white-label testing services to millions of people. We are leveraging those at-home testing capabilities to launch clinical trials at a fraction of the cost and time. We can now expand our panels from at-home blood tests for cardiovascular disease risk to linked conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. The future of healthcare is preventive medicine” Jiabao Li, Chief Design Officer and co-founder, emphasized the importance of the funds for product innovation: “These funds will allow us to enhance our product design and build the first plug-and-play at-home clinical trial and prevention programs. The challenge we are taking on is to make clinical trials and prevention programs easy to plan, fun to execute and participate in, retain participants and researchers, and more informative to the real-world performance of devices or therapeutics. Nick Cutillo, VP of Engineering and Chief Information Security Officer, emphasized the importance of the raise for infrastructure and security, "This raise will allow us to scale up our infrastructure to accommodate securing the records of millions of patients we screen. We are also committed to achieving the highest compliance certifications, ensuring the utmost security and privacy for our users." With this significant milestone, Endless Health is poised to transform the landscape of clinical trials and preventive medicine, bringing cutting-edge healthcare solutions to homes across the globe. Endless Health is on a mission to bring preventive healthcare to every home, making a real difference in tackling heart disease and other chronic conditions. Stay tuned as we continue to innovate and expand! Learn more by visiting http://besthearttest.com #PreventiveMedicine #AtHomeTesting #HealthcareInnovation #SeriesSeed #EndlessHealth #clinicaltrial #hearthealth #cardiovescular #startup #fundraiseq #homehealth #hometesting #startupfunding #healthtech

Two big announcements today for Workweek. Over the past 2.5 years, we've been hard at work creating category-leading B2B newsletters and podcasts with leading industry experts like Ari Murray, Hebba Youssef, Blake Madden, Daniel Murray, Alex Johnson, Tracey Wallace, The Wolf of Franchises, and Nik Sharma. Today, that work has culminated in 550K subscribers, multiple podcasts in the top 25 in their category, and an audience begging us to do more to bring them together. With that momentum, I'm excited to announce the launch of Workweek's Professional Network Platform, along with a $12.5 million Series A financing round to bring this vision to life. Here's the reality: professionals have never been more lonely in the workplace. They're eager to have a digitally native home where they can speak the language of their profession alongside their peers, not be spammed with unwanted messages, and, ultimately, have a more successful work week. And that's exactly what our Professional Network Platform is built to solve. We're only 2.5 years into this journey, but today feels like Day 1. Let's get it!

The Washington Post highlighted one of our customer’s success story using Tiny Health to heal her daughter’s gut condition yesterday. It was a piece on how consumers are turning to at-home testing platforms to take control of their own health because our healthcare system isn't always able to give us answers. It was a fair piece on the balance needed - not all platforms/companies are equal, and consumers should definitely do their own research to discern the credible from the snake oil. I like that someone in the comments section wrote: "be open (to new innovations), but also be smart." You can read the write-up here: https://lnkd.in/gv2kmveS --- After we found out about Angelika’s story ourselves through her interview with Lizza, WaPo’s amazing investigative journalist, we interviewed her to get the full case study. "Within six weeks, Annika's diapers were normal," Angelika recounted—the first time since she was born almost two years ago. Working with Tiny Health was so incredibly helpful. It changed everything. In Annika’s follow-up test, her good bacteria level was way up. The action plan worked—the overabundant [bacteria] had decreased,” Angelika said. Beyond digestive issues, Annika's speech had been delayed. But the next time Angelika and her daughter visited the speech therapist, they couldn't explain how she was suddenly talking in complete sentences. “I also saw her other symptoms resolving—her inflammation, gas, and irritability were gone. And it all coincided with her improved gut health," Angelika said. You can read more about her story here: https://bit.ly/tinyfpies --- While we can't promise to help everyone, Angelika's story of how we turned her child's health around is not uncommon. We've heard thousands of similar stories which fuels the Tiny team even more passionately to serve. Based on scientific literature, our children’s immune system is trained by their gut microbes in the first 1,000 days. Given that 80% of our immune system is in our gut, it is so crucial to make sure they have the right balance of bifidobacteria, acetate, HMO digestion and also a tiny bit of unfriendly bacteria. I knew I couldn’t wait the avg 10-15 years that it would take for the medical system to adopt the latest groundbreaking research in gut microbiome. Not for my family. I started Tiny Health to empower parents to detect potential gut imbalances and course correct early on to avert chronic conditions that are affecting 1 in 2 kids today. Even beyond the early days, as an adult, you can still modify your gut with proper nutrition, specific supplements and lifestyle changes. This can influence your resilience to illness, mental health, metabolic health, sleep, skin, digestion, health span and also longevity. You can’t change your genetics, but you can certainly change your microbiome, and your epigenetics.

Attention healthcare professionals, leaders, and brain health enthusiasts in #Austin. We’ve teamed up with the Alzheimer's Association, Capital of Texas Chapter to bring together an all-star panel to discuss the latest advancements in brain health and dementia care. Moderated by Emmy award-winning News Anchor and National Mental Health Correspondent for Spectrum News, Dr. Nicole Cross, the event will take place on June 20th, “The Longest Day” – a day organized by the Alzheimer's Association® to outshine the darkness of Alzheimer’s disease. 📍 UT Austin Thompson Conference Center 3:30 PM Registration 4:00 PM Live Panel 5:00 PM Cocktail Hour 🌟Featured Panelists: Alyssa Aguirre, MSW, LCSW-S John Bertelson, MD, FAAN Jennifer Prescott, RN, MSN, CDP Kim Rodriguez Andrea Taurins Space is limited, secure your place today! Register here: https://ow.ly/rhVw50S8wuR #BrainHealth #DementiaCare #AlzheimersAwareness #BrainCheck #EndAlz Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin Blue Water Homecare and Hospice