Gut nutrition startup Zoe Health adds £25 million to its series B raise

Zoe Health, a UK-based personalised diet testing app that is conducting a large-scale diet science examine group, has introduced a £25 million ($30.7 million) sequence B extension, bringing its complete funding to $83.7 million.

The funding will gasoline a scaling up mission as Zoe Health goals to fulfill the 250,000 folks on the ready record for its diet checks.

Venture agency Accomplice led the spherical, with participation from Balderton Capital, Ahren, Daphni and personal fairness agency L Catterton. With the institutional sequence B out of the way in which, Zoe Health is throwing out a crowdfunding marketing campaign, ranging from December 14 on the Crowdcube platform.

Zoe Health was based earlier this yr to conduct deep-dive scientific testing into diet, the microbiome, sleep and different long-term well being considerations correlated with meals.

Members obtain an at-home check equipment on signing up and can get “tailor-made insights into how you can eat for his or her our bodies and long-term well being.”

The model is linked to a microbiome well being plan put forward by King’s College London professor Tim Spector, Zoe Health’s co-founder, that focuses on intestine well being, blood fat and blood sugars.

In its diet science examine, known as PREDICT, Zoe Health has strived to mirror the distinctive well being response of every participant to know how meals we’d not typically affiliate with a response might play a job.

The examine is billed because the world’s largest for diet science, backed by scientists from King’s College in addition to Massachusetts General Hospital, Stanford Medicine and the Harvard T.H Chan public well being faculty within the US.

Nutrition scientists contemplate an individual’s weight loss program to assist deal with well being issues starting from insomnia to pores and skin issues and abdomen issues, however figuring out precisely which meals and why is more durable.

The first tranche of Zoe Health’s funding raised $33 million and was introduced in May 2021 alongside a $20 million sequence B top-up led by Ahren Innovation Capital.

Two retired skilled American soccer gamers, Eli Manning and Osi Umenyiora, additionally took half within the diet firm’s sequence B, as did Accomplice, Daphni and THVC.