@daltonc
has been advising and investing in startups through YC for over a decade. Before that, he navigated his own startup rollercoaster, including failures, exits, a stint with MySpace, and a run-in with Sean Parker. He’s been personally involved in scaling up several
Hey
@elonmusk
we are trying to advertise on
@X
with the same ads we use on facebook, but we can't get them approved and there's no customer support basically.
Help us pay you!
A dirty secret in healthtech is that ~50% of your purchase price goes to the cost of annoying Google and Facebook ads.
We decided to test a direct 50% discount to the customer instead.
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🩸📊We recently dove deep into our blood biomarker data for users that also connected wearable devices and discovered a surprising relationship between lipid markers and sleep data in women 40+ years and older. Let us know if you have any thoughts as to what mechanisms might be
🚀 We’re proud to announce the completion of SiPhox Health’s $27 million Series A fundraising round, led by
@intelcapital
and
@khoslaventures
! DiedrikVermeul1, SiPhox Health’s Co-Founder and CEO. “Our goal is to create category-defining health tracking products,” adds
Glad to be recognized as offering the best price. But we also add 1) at-home convenience - no need for a blood draw at a lab or pay a phlebotomist, 2) wearable integration so that you can correlate your 17 blood-based
#biomarkers
with your
#wearables
data (eg hsCRP with sleep).
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Thank you
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Bryan Johnson 45-year-old founder of Braintree Payment Solutions which also owned Venmo sold his companies to PayPal in 2013 for $800 Million. Johnson just revealed that he spends $2 million per year to retain youth and he uses his teenage son as what he calls his ‘blood boy.’
@hubermanlab
@Surgeon_General
How do we get in line with Europe on this graph?
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Candid shot thread🧵:
@PavelK200
(our Technical Product Manager, who used to teach phlebotomy in a past life) gets his blood drawn as part of our monthly venous vs. SiPhox mail-in kit comparison testing.
Dirty secret in healthtech:
50% of your first purchase is going to
@Meta
and
@Google
to pay for ads.
Testing an alternative for a day:
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Our Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
@MikeDubrovsky
is a cohost of the 632nm Podcast.
Interested in the stories behind scientific breakthroughs? Check out their long-form interview (just released) with
@MIT
Professor Moungi Bawendi, 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry:
Incoming! 🔷♦️🔶
We are excited to bring you a wide-ranging conversation with
@MIT
Professor Moungi Bawendi, 2023
@NobelPrize
laureate in Chemistry, who pioneered the controlled synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots (the source of the "Q' in QLED TVs).
At-home blood testing just got a whole lot better with
@siphoxhealth
's (YC S20) revolutionary at-home health test utilizing silicon photonics technology, per
@NEOdotLIFE
:
5/6 So, why are cholesterol and sleep related? And why only in women 40+ years old?
It is unclear whether the relationship we’re observing is causative or correlative. Perhaps one of the two, HDL-C or REM sleep, impacts the other. Just as likely, they’re both independently
3/6 APOA1 X REM in women 40+ years old
Unsurprisingly, we saw a similarly positive correlation (0.49) between APOA1 and REM sleep, which is to be expected given the relationship between HDL-C (passenger) and APOA1 (vehicle).
We are excited to announce the release of our very first podcast!! The Official SiPhox Podcast Episode 1: Team Spotlight — Sarat Gundavarapu (Principal Photonics Scientist)
Immutable law of health tech product evolution:
1) My product tries to help patients
2) My product tries to help the healthcare system
3) Ok fine my product maximizes billings
Avoid letting this bear market tank more than just your portfolio.
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@brexHQ
#growwithbrex
American retailers, even pharmacies, aren’t serious about the health of their customers…otherwise they wouldn’t carry products like Coke and ultra-processed candy that cause chronic disease.
Genuinely caring about your customers’ health is probably the first step, not opening
@NextMedHealth
Our first angel investor Joe Caruso (well known as one of the nicest, and most talkative guys in the Boston pre-seed community), tests out a SiPhox Health kit with Colin.
The best place to start if you want a comprehensive health screen is a broad blood test focused on inflammation, metabolic, hormonal, nutritional and cardiovascular health… like the one we offer @
🚀 We’re proud to announce the completion of SiPhox Health’s $27 million Series A fundraising round, led by
@intelcapital
and
@khoslaventures
! DiedrikVermeul1, SiPhox Health’s Co-Founder and CEO. “Our goal is to create category-defining health tracking products,” adds
Starting in Q3 2023, we will begin shipping SiPhox Home devices to beta testers as part of a study. Current SiPhox Health subscribers are first on the waiting list to participate. Sign up here at [2/3]
If you want to be excellent, staying consistent with your goals and positive habits over time will separate you from the herd of mediocrity. It all starts with a goal. If you don’t have a destination in mind, you’re just adrift at sea going with the flow.
Longevity researchers, bioinformatics peeps, data scientists:
Let’s build an
#agingclock
using the markers below (plus Resting HR and HRV) we test
@siphoxhealth
We’ll be awarding 1 or more grants to help us optimize using our data + public dataset. Open source, publish results!
Hey
@elonmusk
we are trying to advertise on
@X
with the same ads we use on facebook, but we can't get them approved and there's no customer support basically.
Help us pay you!
@drrinde
@sprague
@MyViome
@Labcorp
We currently use a serum separator card (user applies their fingerprick sample to it at home). Blood flows by capillary action across the card and cells are trapped in the fibers, serum continues. The card is shipped dry via USPS to the CLIA lab and rehydrated for testing.
4/6 How does this differ in men?
Given the strong correlation in women, one might assume that there’d be a similar correlation in men. But our data says otherwise.
The correlation between HDL-C and REM for men over 40 was only 0.08, essentially non-existent compared to the 0.53
We're launching the SiPhox Unlimited membership! Track + improve your health with the lowest cost, most flexible, comprehensive toolkit:
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These
@toinfinityai
videos are way too easy to make. Literally takes 5 minutes including export and adding subtitles. Here it does a solid rendition of
@hubermanlab
and
@elonmusk
with just the right tone at the end.
Come check out
@siphoxhealth
at
#HLTH
Booth 229. Get your first Quantify test (17 biomarkers) done with our expert phlebotomist, view our next-gen hardware, and meet the team!
@MehNitesh2
The yearly full blood panel and our test don’t overlap perfectly. But our lab partner does validate every assay against traditional venous draws.
Why you should track your hsCRP (Inflammation) and how to lower it through lifestyle, supplementation, and diet: (use code hscrp20 to get 20% off when you sign up)
1/6 Methodology and definitions
- 📈Wearable data was averaged over the two weeks preceding the associated blood tests.
- 🧶HDL-C refers to the cholesterol carried by Apolipoprotein A1 (APOA1)-containing HDL particles. HDL particles pick up harmful cholesterol in the arteries