Eight years ago, orthopedic surgeon Dr William Kappa participated in a medical conference that modified his skilled life.
He moved from a private doctor to co -found a company that built critical hospitals to sell this company. This gave him interest in either side of healthcare: medicines and business sites, said TechCrunch.
So he went to an annual conference run by the famous scientist Dr. Daniel Kraft to learn about the latest technology that may improve the results when reducing costs. Dr. Peter Diamandis, the founder and chairman of The Xpr in Foundation, was on stage this yr with Dr. Bob Hariri, Pioneering cells STEM and co -founder of several health technologies, similar to Genomics Company Human Longgevity, said Kapp. They discussed genomics, microbiome and latest technology that was not part of mainstream medicine.
Inspired by Kapp returned to his hometown of Naples in Florida and “began something called the Longevity Performance Center. The idea was to detect and then optimize human health” – he said.
In March 2020, Diamandis (pictured above) and his friend Tony Robbins heard about the center of the Kapp and visited. They had a startup from stem cells called Fountain Therapeutics. The conversation soon turned to the merger, and until October this yr each corporations became Life Fountain.
Both Diamandis and Robbins as his co -founders and members of the board remained CEO.
Today, his management also includes Hariri as an adviser; Todd Wanek, CEO ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, as an investor; and a wealthy Indian business tycoon BK Modi as an investor.
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Fountain Life says only TechCrunch that he has just collected a Beria B in the amount of $ 18 million, led by EOS Ventures, with the participation of most existing board members. Kapp said that Fountain had previously raised a series A in the amount of $ 80 million and raised about $ 108 million.
Longevity as a subject of serious research carried out by the medical community is a latest field. When Kapp (in the photo below) he first launched his center: “We didn’t know exactly what longevity means,” he said. But in the last 4 or five years much more research has been conducted.
He said that the first principle of longevity is “don’t die of anything stupid.” That is why the Fountain Life cent, which are 4 today, focus on preventive examination, looking for diseases and chronic conditions at their earliest stages, when they are asymptomatic. He said that blood tests and body scans collect data on over 100 biomarkers, from liver fat to “microbiome concentration”.
The second director is optimization, which implies improving these markers in scientifically approved procedures, he said. And the third director is “using the latest regenerative therapies as part of FDA research” to treat the disease or achieve optimization.
He said that screening tests can discover, for example, bacterial excessive excessive intestinal (SIBO), which left untreated can result in some cancers. The solution, if it is caught early, is to revive the balance of microbiome with specific, prescribed microbiotics.
In the case of Fountain members, the testing is repeated every quarter, and patients can track results and ask application questions called Zori.
But this is expensive, admitted Kapp. The full subscription costs USD 21,500 a yr, which incorporates a wave of tests and access to a doctor, but does not include prolonged medical care. For $ 10,000, the patient can only get a testing process and artificial intelligence, but not ongoing tests and medical support.
Despite this, Kapp remembers two stories that told him that this job was on the right track. The wife of Robbins fan bought membership for her husband, and the tests caught the early stage, asymptomatic kidney cancer. The husband is now free from cancer.
When the global hotelier himself Nazarian explored the partnership from Fountain to Place longevity centers in luxury hotelsNazarian performed Fountain and found a brain aneurysm. They treated him successfully, Nazister He said publicly.
KAPP claims that latest financing will allow the company to open more centers. In addition to Naples, they opened facilities in Orlando, Dallas and Westchester in New York; The center in Houston can be opened in December. Centers in Los Angeles and Miami are planned in the second quarter of 2026.
He hopes to resolve the problem related to cost accessibility, working on the “development of the clinic”, in which Fountain trains medical facilities in the scope of its methodologies. KAPP claims that because technology and specialist knowledge are becoming more available, it should reduce access costs.
The fountain is not the only startup of testing longevity. The famous functional health doctor Mark Hyman has a company called Function health. It offers a package of about 160 blood tests, with control tests every three to 6 months, for membership of USD 500 per yr (with additional fees for additional blood tests). The platform similarly analyzes and tracks test results, although it does not include access to doctors. This price does not include full body scans, but in May acquired A company with body scans called Ezra, and now, for an additional fee from USD 499, it also offers scans.