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Lume Health has secured fresh funding to advance a wrist-worn device designed to track cortisol and decode circadian health. According to reports, the company has now raised $2.5 million, built…

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Apr 2026

NUTRITION

Danone acquires Huel for $1bn to expand functional nutrition portfolio

Danone has agreed to acquire Huel in a deal valued at approximately $1bn, bringing one of the fastest-growing meal replacement brands into a global food portfolio. Huel, founded in the…

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Apr 2026

TECH

Perplexity AI enters consumer health AI to deliver real-time medical answers

Perplexity AI is expanding into healthcare, positioning its AI-powered search platform as a tool for delivering real-time medical information and guidance. The company has built its product around an answer…

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Apr 2026

MIND Vanguard

The race to copy your brain before AI replaces you

Christian Larsen does not hedge when the conversation turns to AI. If a superintelligent AI “species” emerges, one that is faster, more capable and operating at a fundamentally different level…

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Mar 2026

MIND

Mave Health raises $2.1m to launch brain-stimulation headset for focus and mood regulation

Mave Health has raised $2.1 million to develop a wearable headset designed to improve attention, mood and stress regulation through non-invasive brain stimulation. The company is preparing to launch the…

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Mar 2026

HEALTH Obesity crisis

Eli Lilly advances retatrutide to Phase 3 to expand next-generation multi-hormone obesity therapeutics

Eli Lilly is progressing its experimental obesity and type 2 diabetes drug retatrutide into Phase 3 trials, following late-stage data showing significant weight loss and metabolic improvements. Retatrutide belongs to…

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Mar 2026

BUSINESS

Solo60 raises $3.3M to scale app-bookable micro-gyms and rethink gym real estate

London-based Solo60 has raised £2.5 million ($3.3 million) to accelerate expansion across the UK and support longer-term international growth. The company lets consumers, personal trainers and influencers book private training…

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Mar 2026

BUSINESS

F45 launches hybrid fitness competition to expand into performance sport and event-based engagement

F45 is entering the competitive fitness space with the launch of Peak500, a hybrid fitness competition developed in partnership with Red Bull. The format introduces a standardised race-style event built…

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Mar 2026

BUSINESS

Peloton expands into commercial gym equipment to reposition its fitness platform strategy

Peloton is expanding its commercial strategy by growing its Precor division, supplying connected fitness equipment directly to gyms, hotels, and multi-family residential spaces. Precor, which Peloton acquired for $420 million…

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Mar 2026

TRAINING Vanguard

What is Xenom, and why it could reshape fitness competition

Xenom has raised $15 million and calls itself the “decathlon of fitness”. That’s the headline but it’s not the most interesting thing about the latest addition to the competitive fitness…

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