Eight years in the past, orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Kapp attended a medical convention that modified his skilled life.
He had gone from a personal apply physician to co-founding an organization that constructed important care hospitals to then promoting that firm. It gave him an curiosity for each side of healthcare: the medication and enterprise sides, he informed TechCrunch.
So he went to the annual convention hosted by famed physician-scientist Dr. Daniel Kraft to study new tech that might enhance outcomes whereas reducing prices. Dr. Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Basis, was on stage that yr with Dr. Bob Hariri, a stem-cell pioneer and co-founder of a number of well being techs like genomics firm, Human Longevity, Kapp stated. They mentioned genomics, microbiomics, and new tech that wasn’t a part of mainstream medication.
Impressed, Kapp went again to his house city of Naples, Florida, and “began a factor known as Longevity Efficiency Middle. The thought was to do early detection after which optimization of individuals’s well being,” he stated.
In March 2020, Diamandis (pictured above) and his buddy Tony Robbins heard of Kapp’s heart and visited. That they had a stem cell startup known as Fountain Therapeutics. Dialog quickly turned towards a merger, and by October that yr, the 2 corporations turned Fountain Life.
Kapp remained CEO with each Diamandis and Robbins as his co-founders and board members.
As we speak his board additionally consists of Hariri as an adviser; Todd Wanek, CEO of Ashley Furnishings Industries, as an investor; and rich Indian enterprise mogul B.Okay. Modi as an investor as properly.
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Fountain Life tells TechCrunch completely that it simply raised an $18 million sequence B, led by EOS Ventures, with participation from a lot of the current members of the board. Fountain beforehand raised an $80 million Collection A and has raised about $108 million complete, Kapp stated.
Longevity as a topic of significant examine by the medical group is a brand new subject. When Kapp (pictured beneath) first launched his heart, “We didn’t know precisely what longevity meant,” he stated. However during the last 4 or 5 years, rather more analysis has been performed.
The primary precept of longevity, he stated, is “don’t die of something silly.” Due to this fact, Fountain Life’s facilities, of which there are 4 immediately, have a heavy give attention to prevention screening, on the lookout for diseases and power situations at their earliest levels once they are usually asymptomatic. Blood checks and physique scans collect knowledge on over 100 biomarkers from liver fats to “microbiome concentrations,” he stated.
The second principal is optimization, that means bettering these markers with scientifically validated remedies, he stated. And the third principal is “utilizing the newest regenerative therapies beneath FDA trials,” to deal with sickness or obtain optimization.
Screening checks might uncover, for instance, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), which, left untreated, might result in sure cancers, he stated. The answer, if caught early, is to revive microbiome steadiness with particular, prescribed microbiotics.
For Fountain’s members, testing is repeated each quarter or so, and sufferers can monitor outcomes and ask questions of an AI-powered app known as Zori.
Nevertheless it’s expensive, Kapp admitted. A full subscription prices $30,000 a yr, and $10,000 will cowl simply the testing course of and AI, however not ongoing checks and medical help.
Nonetheless, Kapp remembers two tales that informed him this work was heading in the right direction. The spouse of a Robbins fan purchased a membership for her husband, and the checks caught early-stage, asymptomatic kidney most cancers. The husband is now cancer-free.
When international hotelier Sam Nazarian was exploring a partnership with Fountain to put longevity facilities in luxurious inns, Nazarian did Fountain’s checks and located a mind aneurysm. They efficiently handled it, Nazarian has publicly stated.
Kapp says the brand new funding will permit the corporate to open extra facilities. Along with Naples; Westchester, New York; Orlando; and Dallas, a middle in Houston will open in December. Facilities in Los Angeles and Miami are deliberate for Q2 of 2026.
He hopes to resolve the affordability challenge by engaged on “clinic improvement” the place Fountain trains medical amenities on its methodologies. Kapp says that because the tech and experience turn into extra broadly obtainable, this may drive down prices for entry.
Fountain shouldn’t be the one doctor-driven longevity testing startup. Famed purposeful well being physician Mark Hyman has an organization known as Perform Well being. It affords a package deal of about 160 blood checks, with follow-up checks each three to 6 months, for a $500/yr membership (with further charges for added blood checks). Its platform equally analyzes and tracks check outcomes, though it doesn’t do full physique scans or provide direct entry to physicians.
