{"id":111670,"date":"2020-08-20T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/humanity-inc-raises-funding-to-allow-us-to-monitor-and-affect-our-rate-of-aging"},"modified":"2020-08-20T07:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:22:17","slug":"humanity-inc-raises-funding-to-allow-us-to-monitor-and-affect-our-rate-of-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/humanity-inc-raises-funding-to-allow-us-to-monitor-and-affect-our-rate-of-aging","title":{"rendered":"Humanity Inc. raises funding to allow us to monitor and affect our rate of aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanity-inc-raises-funding-to-allow-us-to-monitor-and-affect-our-rate-of-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of us are now familiar with apps that track what\u2019s known as our \u2018digital biomarkers\u2019. These include the steps, we\u2019ve taken, our heart rate, and our weight. In recent years startups have appeared which can, in a relatively turnkey manner, track our \u2018biomedical markers\u2019, such as cholesterol levels, for instance. Few, however, are seeking to combine the two to get a 360-degree view of how our bodies are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Into this gap steps <a href=\"https:\/\/humanity.health\">Humanity Inc.<\/a>, which will seek to do exactly that. Founded by two seasoned entrepreneurs, Humanity will combine digital and biomedical biomarkers into a consumer app that will fully launch next year.<\/p>\n<p>Today it announces it\u2019s initial seed fundraise of $2.5m, in a round led by Boston fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/one-way-ventures\">One Way Ventures<\/a> and the legendary and long-time HealthTech Angel investor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/esther-dyson\">Esther Dyson<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are now familiar with apps that track what\u2019s known as our \u2018digital biomarkers\u2019. These include the steps, we\u2019ve taken, our heart rate, and our weight. In recent years startups have appeared which can, in a relatively turnkey manner, track our \u2018biomedical markers\u2019, such as cholesterol levels, for instance. Few, however, are seeking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}