Lume Health adds funding to build cortisol tracker for circadian health

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 a waitlist of more than 5,200 people, and is using the capital to support pre-launch development and scientific validation. That matters because Lume is targeting…

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ByJon Lipsey

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 UK, has built a direct-to-consumer business around powdered and ready-to-drink meals designed to provide complete nutrition. The company has scaled rapidly, reaching hundreds of millions…

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 engine that retrieves, synthesises and cites information in response to user queries. Applying that model to healthcare introduces a higher-stakes use case, where accuracy, transparency…

What is predictive health AI and how does it work in sleep technology?

Sleep has quietly become one of the most valuable windows into human health. Over the past decade, wearable devices and sensor platforms have made it possible to capture detailed physiological data while people sleep. What began as consumer sleep tracking has evolved into something far more significant: the development of predictive health AI systems that…

March 19, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

GEAR

Eight Sleep raises $50M to expand predictive health AI platform

Eight Sleep raises $50M to scale predictive health AI Sleep technology company Eight Sleep has raised $50 million in new funding at a reported $1.5 billion valuation, accelerating its push into predictive health monitoring powered by artificial intelligence. The company is best known for its Pod smart mattress system, which integrates biometric sensors into a…

March 19, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

HEALTH Obesity crisis

Metabolic ill health will cost the global economy trillions

McKinsey Health Institute recently released a 59-page report on global metabolic health — and the numbers are impossible to ignore. Around 900 million adults worldwide are obese, and more than 20 chronic diseases, from diabetes to dementia, are directly linked to obesity. The economic impact is equally severe: $2.76 trillion in GDP could be wiped…

February 1, 20260Comments

ByJon Lipsey

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