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Annie Aesthetic
Annie Aesthetic is a medical-aesthetics holding company that partners with and acquires leading medical spas across the United States. Incubated by Tucker's Farm Corporation in May 2022 with roughly $30 million of equity capital, it provides its partner clinics with growth capital, operations, marketing, recruiting, technology and legal/regulatory support while keeping founders and operating teams in place. By late 2025 the platform had grown to about $65 million of revenue across 12 medical-aesthetics brands, backed by InterAlpen Partners, Brookside Equity Partners and Plexus Capital.
Coro Health
Coro Health is an Austin-based healthcare technology company that delivers clinically proven therapeutic music and multi-faith spiritual programming through a fully licensed streaming service built specifically for care settings. Its flagship MusicFirst platform uses a patented Music Prescription Builder - designed by music therapists, neuroscientists, and music designers - to generate individualized programs shown in peer-reviewed trials to reduce depression and agitation in dementia and long-term care residents. The company also offers FaithFirst multi-faith content and EnrichFirst entertainment, reaching more than a million annual users across thousands of senior living communities and hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.
GlycanAge
GlycanAge is a UK-registered, Croatian-founded longevity biotech that measures biological age by analyzing glycans - sugar molecules attached to immune-system antibodies. Built on roughly two decades of glycobiology research led by Professor Gordan Lauc, the company turns a finger-prick blood sample into a report on how fast a person is aging at the molecular level, plus a specialist consultation to guide lifestyle changes. It sells directly to consumers and is expanding its glycan biomarkers into hospitals and preventive-care systems.
GoSaga, Inc.
GoSaga, Inc. is a Norwalk, Connecticut wellness holding company that builds and scales next-generation lifestyle brands across fitness, beauty, and well-being. Founded in 2020 by Geoff Schneider and partners, it runs an asset-light franchisor platform that pairs a centralized operating engine - unified technology, data, quality assurance, and expert operators - with a portfolio of founder-led brands including LYMBR, Squeeze Massage, VIO Med Spa, and FitLab's boutique fitness concepts. Backed by $5M in Series A funding, GoSaga positions itself to capture consumer engagement at every stage of the wellness journey.
Hatch
Hatch is a Menlo Park sleep-technology company that designs bedside devices and a companion content subscription to help people fall asleep and wake up better. Founded in 2014 by former BabyCenter executives Ann Crady Weiss and Dave Weiss, it started with connected products for babies and toddlers (Hatch Rest) before expanding to adults with the Hatch Restore line of sunrise alarm clocks and sound machines. The company pairs hardware with the Hatch Sleep app and the paid Hatch+ library of sleep sounds, sleep stories, meditations and light-based wind-down routines, reaching more than half a million families.
Pineapple Products
Pineapple Products is a direct-to-consumer health supplement company that builds and operates a portfolio of consumer wellness brands. Founded by Brett Allcorn, it started as classroom seminars in New York City and grew into a house of brands that pairs original product formulations - including probiotics with unique metabolic strains - with strong storytelling and partnerships with doctors, personalities, and influencers. The company creates, markets, and oversees smaller brands under a single parent, aiming to build products it believes don't yet exist in the market.
PranaX
PranaX is a Houston-based regenerative medicine biotechnology company developing stem cell-derived exosome products to counter aging, inflammation, and tissue damage. Built on exosome technology exclusively licensed from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, PranaX operates an FDA-registered cGMP facility at the Levit Green life science campus and is bringing to market a physician-directed exosome wellness supplement (ExoWELL) and a personal exosome banking service (ExoSTORE). The company closed an oversubscribed $17M Series A in early 2026.
Geoff Schneider
Geoff Schneider is the co-founder and CEO of GoSaga, a Norwalk, Connecticut holding company that acquires and scales franchised brands across wellness, beauty, and fitness. He founded the personalized-stretching studio brand LYMBR and runs the early-stage investment platform Cava Capital, drawing on more than 25 years operating and investing in consumer brands. Under his 'efficient franchisor' thesis, GoSaga has assembled a portfolio including LYMBR, VIO Med Spa, FitLab, and Squeeze Massage that shares services and vendor scale across roughly a dozen states.
IM8 (David Beckham & Danny Yeung's health drink startup)
IM8 is a premium longevity supplement brand co-founded by soccer icon David Beckham and serial entrepreneur Danny Yeung, operating as a consumer-health subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Prenetics. In July 2026, IM8 secured $1 billion in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF), a non-dilutive facility that funds up to 70% of customer-acquisition spend in exchange for a capped share of cohort revenue rather than equity. Launched in December 2024, IM8 became the fastest-growing premium supplement brand on record, hitting roughly $100 million in annualized revenue within eleven months, and the capital is meant to pour fuel on marketing while ownership stays undiluted.
Azumio Inc.
Azumio is a Redwood City, California digital health company that builds AI-powered mobile apps and developer APIs for tracking heart rate, food, sleep, fitness and diabetes. Founded in 2011 out of the runaway success of its Instant Heart Rate app, Azumio's consumer titles - including Argus, Calorie Mama, Glucose Buddy, Fitness Buddy and Sleep Time - have collectively surpassed 100 million downloads. The company also licenses its computer-vision technology to businesses through the Calorie Mama / Food Lens food-recognition API and its Instant Diabetes Test and health-data platform APIs.
Garden Society
Garden Society is a Cloverdale, California craft cannabis company founded in 2016 by Erin Gore and Karli Warner, built to redefine cannabis for women. A certified Benefit Corporation, it makes wine-country-inspired edibles - artisanal chocolates, gelees and gummies - alongside sun-grown pre-roll Rosettes, and sells across California and select multi-state markets. The company raised a $7 million Series A in January 2022 to scale manufacturing and expand nationally.
Shift Health
Shift Health is a San Francisco-based healthtech startup building a Human+AI behavioral care platform that keeps people supported between clinical visits. Its AI coach delivers 24/7, in-the-moment guidance across mental, physical, and behavioral health, while care teams set the protocols, tone, and clinical guardrails. Available as a consumer app ('Shift - AI Mental Health') and as an enterprise platform aimed at health systems, employers, and high-demand professions like first responders and veterans, the company frames good outcomes as coming from 'what happens between visits.'
Sunnyside
Sunnyside is a San Francisco-based digital health company (formerly Cutback Coach) that helps people drink less without necessarily quitting. It pairs a habit-tracking app with SMS-based human coaching, a peer community, and - via Sunnyside Med - optional telehealth prescriptions of naltrexone. Members report cutting weekly alcohol consumption by roughly a third, and the company says it has helped 600,000+ people avoid more than 24 million drinks.
Rony Sellam
Rony Sellam is the CEO of InsideTracker, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based personalized-health company that uses blood biomarkers, DNA and lifestyle data to give consumers actionable recommendations for extending healthspan. A former Deloitte consultant from France by way of Geneva and a longtime healthcare IT executive, he has run InsideTracker for over a decade and helped push the company past 100,000 members and into partnerships with Oura and Fitness SF.
Aavia
Aavia is a hormone health company building a daily app that helps people with ovaries understand how their ovarian hormones shape their energy, mood, sleep, skin, and sex drive across the cycle. Founded at MIT in 2017, it began with a patented Smart Birth Control Pill Case that senses whether you have taken your pill and reminds you until you do, then grew into an all-in-one tracking and education platform with personalized, science-backed insights, a member community, and a medical advisory board.
ACTIVZ
ACTIVZ is a West Jordan, Utah-based health and wellness company that bills itself as the first direct-selling brand built around epigenetics - the idea that lifestyle and nutrition can influence how genes express themselves. Founded in 2017 by David Brown and Ryan Thompson, the company sells supplements (LINQ, AIRO, Optimend) and an anti-aging skincare line through a distributor network paired with an omnichannel e-commerce model. It launched first in Spanish-speaking Mexico before expanding to the US, Peru, Japan and beyond.
ANJA
ANJA (ANJA Life LLC) is a minority-owned, state-licensed adult-use cannabis dispensary in Highland Park, New Jersey. Founded by a team of New York- and New Jersey-based entrepreneurs, it opened in January 2024 as the first recreational cannabis dispensary in Highland Park. ANJA pairs a curated retail and delivery experience with an education-first mission - normalizing cannabis through reliable information, community events like ANJA Fest, and partnerships with local New Jersey cultivators. The name is a play on the cannabis synonym 'ganja' and a Sanskrit term meaning 'to manifest.'
Berri Organics
Berri Organics is a Santa Monica-based beverage company that makes organic, plant-based electrolyte and fitness drinks under its Berri Lyte and Berri Fit lines. Founded by cancer survivor Jerome Tse, the company positions its products as clean, low-sugar alternatives to conventional sports drinks and oral rehydration solutions, using ingredients like coconut water, sweet potato, ginseng root, sea salt and maqui berries. Berri products are sold in roughly 2,000 retail stores nationwide - including Whole Foods, CVS, Target, Sprouts, Wegmans and Stop & Shop - as well as on Amazon and its own D2C site, and the company donates a portion of every sale to pediatric cancer causes.
BodyBio
BodyBio is a family-owned, third-generation supplement company based in Millville, New Jersey that builds health at the cellular level. Founded in 1998 by biochemist Ed Kane, it grew out of a blood-chemistry diagnostics practice into a maker of phospholipid, electrolyte and short-chain fatty acid products - most notably BodyBio PC (phosphatidylcholine) and e-lyte electrolyte concentrate - manufactured in-house and sold to consumers and to a network of more than 35,000 healthcare practitioners.
G.O.A.T. Fuel, Inc.
G.O.A.T. Fuel is a Plano, Texas-based sports energy drink company co-founded by Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice and his daughter Jaqui Rice Gold and son-in-law Trevion Gold. Billed as the first Black-owned energy drink in national retail, the health-forward brand blends natural caffeine, electrolytes, BCAAs, antioxidants and cordyceps mushroom extract, with no added sugar or artificial sweeteners. Launched in January 2020, it has grown from a direct-to-consumer Shopify shop to more than 10,000 retail doors including Target, Walmart, Publix, H-E-B and 7-Eleven, and serves as the official energy drink of the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Sky.
GEM
GEM is a Los Angeles-based wellness company that reimagines the daily multivitamin as a whole-food bite rather than a pill or gummy. Founded in 2018 by Sara Cullen, GEM packs 20+ vitamins, minerals, superfoods, prebiotics, probiotics and microalgae into a single real-food chew, sold mainly through a subscription model plus retail and Amazon. Its pitch is 'food is medicine' - transparent, plant-based, and traceable nutrition for people who distrust synthetic supplements.
Great Many
Great Many is a New York-founded hair growth company that pairs in-studio clinical treatments - PRP injections and FDA-cleared laser therapy - with a telehealth platform and a line of growth-focused hair care products. Started in 2024 by Heyday co-founder Michael Pollak and former Estee Lauder omnichannel VP Steve Klebanow, it treats hair loss as a health category rather than a taboo, building consultative studios (NYC, Atlanta, Washington DC) around scalp assessments, microscopic follicle imaging and clinician-led plans for both men and women.
Hume Supernatural
Hume Supernatural is a San Diego-based clean personal care company making plant-, mineral-, and probiotic-based products - led by an aluminum-free deodorant - that support the skin microbiome while controlling odor. Founded in 2020 by an attorney, a Sun Bum veteran, and a cosmetic chemist, the brand rejects the trade-off between 'natural' and 'effective,' formulating from scratch with proprietary biotech ingredients. It sells direct-to-consumer, on Amazon, and through retailers including Whole Foods, Sprouts, and CVS, and has grown into one of the fastest-growing natural deodorants in the U.S. natural retail channel.
Intiva Health
Intiva Health is an Austin-based healthcare technology company that grew out of a 2006 surgical-staffing agency into a group of businesses tied together by medical credentialing. Its flagship product, Incredable (formerly Ready Doc), is a distributed-ledger-based platform that turns credential verification - the paperwork that decides which clinicians are allowed to work - from a months-long process into a near-instant, tamper-evident one. The company has since layered on a crypto token (TIVA) to run payments and rewards inside that platform, plus sibling ventures in supplement manufacturing (Gummi World) and wellness clinics (Nova Vita).
Kickoff
Kickoff is a New York-based remote fitness and nutrition coaching platform that pairs clients with certified personal trainers and registered dietitians who deliver custom workouts, meal guidance, and daily text and video check-ins. Founded in 2019 by CEO John Gardner, the company set out to make elite-level personal coaching affordable, and more recently has moved to have its dietitian-led training covered by health insurance so many clients pay little or nothing. Kickoff has attracted more than 20,000 coaches and raised roughly $11M from investors including 645 Ventures, FJ Labs, and Expa.
Kindra
Kindra is a clinically-backed, direct-to-consumer vaginal health and sexual wellness brand founded in 2019 through a launchpad formed by venture firm M13 and P&G Ventures. It sells estrogen-free, doctor-formulated intimate care - lotions, serums, lubricants, bath soaks and menopause supplements - designed for women navigating dryness, discomfort and hormonal shifts across menopause, postpartum and everyday life. The brand pairs its patent-pending, peptide-based formulas with education and community, and says its products are recommended by 6,000+ OB/GYNs and pelvic-floor, oncology and sexual-medicine specialists.
Methodology
Methodology is a premium, San Francisco-founded meal delivery service that ships chef-prepared, nutritionist-designed meals nationwide. Positioned around the idea of 'food as medicine,' its rotating weekly menus are free of gluten, dairy, refined sugar, canola oil and preservatives, cooked in avocado oil with sustainable proteins and 200+ plant varieties a week. Meals arrive ready to reheat in reusable glass jars and bentos that the company collects and sanitizes - a closed-loop packaging system aimed at zero food waste. Founded by former J.P. Morgan and Lumosity operator Julie Nguyen in 2015, the brand also runs a postpartum nourishment program for new mothers.
Ora Organic
Ora Organic is an Austin-based direct-to-consumer wellness brand making plant-based, USDA Organic supplements - vegan protein powders, greens, probiotics, and vitamins - built around clean, third-party-tested ingredients with no synthetic additives. Founded in 2014 and later featured on Shark Tank, it grew from a founder's kitchen-table idea into a multi-product catalog spanning gut health, hormones, recovery, brain health, and skin.
Overalls
Overalls is a New York-based benefits company that gives every employee a dedicated LifeConcierge - a real human expert amplified by AI - to handle the personal to-do list that piles up during the workday, from booking childcare and navigating a medical bill to planning a trip or dealing with home repairs. Founded in 2021 by insurtech veteran Jon Cooper at venture studio Redesign Health, Overalls pairs concierge services with financial-protection products under the thesis that reducing life's off-the-clock stress makes people more focused and productive at work. It sells to employers as a supplemental benefit and counts Reddit, Patreon, Coterie and BeatBox Beverages among its customers.
OXOMIO
OXOMIO is a luxury wellness company that makes fermented supplements and nutricosmetics for gut, skin, hair and general health. Founded in 2017 by David Friedeberg, it uses a proprietary bio-fermentation process (GPM - Glycoprotein Matrix) to produce highly bioavailable organic vitamins and minerals, and combines them with branded ingredients such as Peptan marine collagen, LactoSpore probiotics and Superba Boost krill oil. It sells direct-to-consumer online under the tagline 'The Luxury of Wellness.'