We\u2019ve all known someone whose life was altered by a diagnosis that came too late. We\u2019ve felt that shock ourselves \u2013 that moment when you ask how something so serious could stay hidden for so long, despite good doctors, regular checkups, and doing everything \u201cright.\u201d<\/p>\n
It stays with you.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s what first drew us to Function: the belief that people shouldn\u2019t be left guessing about their health until symptoms appear. The belief that the invisible should be visible. The belief that the future of healthcare should feel less like reacting to bad news, and more like understanding your body in real time.<\/p>\n
From the beginning, Function was built with ferocious clarity: If we want people to live 100 healthy years, we need to give them access to all the data that matters \u2013 and the intelligence to understand it. Not someday. Now.<\/p>\n
Today, we\u2019re excited to share that a16z is investing in Function\u2019s oversubscribed $298M Series B at a $2.5B valuation and that Function is launching a major milestone in their mission: the Medical Intelligence Lab.<\/p>\n
Function started by redefining what routine health looks like. Its bi-annual, 100+ test lab panel gave hundreds of thousands of people a deeper, more comprehensive view of their biology than a traditional annual physical could offer. With the acquisition of Ezra, Function extended this visibility through accessible advanced MRI and CT imaging \u2013 making proactive scanning something everyone, not just the lucky few, could benefit from.<\/p>\n
The launch of the Medical Intelligence Lab takes that vision further. Medical Intelligence unifies everything \u2013 labs, imaging, wearables, IoT signals, medical records, global research \u2013 into a continuously learning model designed to reveal early patterns, update insights as your body changes, and translate complexity into simple, meaningful action.<\/p>\n
Finally, technology is achieving what we\u2019ve always wanted healthcare to do: understand us deeply, anticipate issues early, and empower us to act.<\/p>\n
At a16z, we look for companies building entirely new categories \u2013 not incrementally better tools. Function is building the intelligence layer for human health: the system we\u2019ve long imagined but have never had. And in the process, it\u2019s reshaping what proactive care can look like for billions of people.<\/p>\n
To Jonathan and everyone at Function: congratulations on this milestone. The vision is bold, the execution relentless, and the mission \u2013 to help every person live 100 healthy years \u2013 could not be more important.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re honored to be building this new era of Medical Intelligence alongside you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve all known someone whose life was altered by a diagnosis that came too late. We\u2019ve felt that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[186289,2436,834,210,1141,1142,80675,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-391817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-bio-health","9":"tag-consumer","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-investment-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115581038443155317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}