Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet
Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and several other investors also participated in the financing. The round brings Throne's total funding to nearly $18 million since its 2023 inception.
Key Takeaways
- Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively.
- Connecting the dots Earlier this month, Throne introduced a beta version of its Gut Health AI coach, which lets users ask questions about their data and receive personalized feedback.
The tool uses LLMs to interview users after episodes of bad gut health to understand what the relevant factors underlying each episode might have been.
- "This is where we think the long-term value lives, and it's a meaningful differentiator.
" Capodilupo, who serves as Throne's chief product officer, believes that longitudinal data "is the whole game.
- "Gut health is even more underserved.
There's essentially no dense longitudinal dataset on human GI function, which is why so much of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) care is still guesswork.
- Studies of digestive health often depend on patients accurately describing and recording their own bathroom habits; Throne argues that its passive system could provide researchers with more consistent, objective data.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively.
- #] Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively.
- #The round brings Throne's total funding to nearly $18 million since its 2023 inception.
- #The round brings Throne's total funding to nearly $18 million since its 2023 inception.
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and several other investors also participated in the financing. The round brings Throne's total funding to nearly $18 million since its 2023 inception.
Emerson Collective , Workshop , LEAD VC , Salt VC , Accomplice , Moxxie Ventures , and several other investors also participated in the financing. The round brings Throne's total funding to nearly $18 million since its 2023 inception. The startup was founded in 2023 by CEO Scott Hickle , who previously worked for nearly a decade in software product management at various companies, and former Whoop co-founder and CTO John Capodilupo , for whom the company's mission is also a bit of a personal one as he has ulcerative colitis.
"We started Throne because we believe it's inevitable that people will one day measure their health from their waste," Hickle told Crunchbase News. Throne uses computer vision analysis to turn the raw camera data into health metrics. To achieve this, Hickle says the startup uses a pipeline of a dozen different computer vision models, some of which were trained by practicing gastroenterologists, to analyze various characteristics of stool and urine.
For more details please read the original article at Crunchbase News.
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