Tony Robbins’ And Peter Diamandis’ Longevity Company Fountain Life Raises $18m

Eight years ago, orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Kapp attended a aesculapian convention that changed his master life. 

He had gone from a backstage believe expert to co-founding a institution that built captious attraction hospitals to past trading that company. It gave him an liking for some sides of healthcare: nan medicine and business sides, he told TechCrunch. 

So he went to nan yearly convention hosted by famed physician-scientist Dr. Daniel Kraft to study astir caller tech that could amended results while lowering costs. Dr. Peter Diamandis, laminitis and president of nan XPRIZE Foundation, was connected shape that twelvemonth pinch Dr. Bob Hariri, a stem-cell pioneer and co-founder of respective wellness techs for illustration genomics company, Human Longevity, Kapp said. They discussed genomics, microbiomics, and caller tech that wasn’t portion of mainstream medicine.

Inspired, Kapp went backmost to his location municipality of Naples, Florida, and “started a point called Longevity Performance Center. The thought was to do early discovery and past optimization of people’s health,” he said.

In March 2020, Diamandis (pictured above) and his buddy Tony Robbins heard of Kapp’s halfway and visited. They had a stem compartment startup called Fountain Therapeutics. Conversation soon turned toward a merger, and by October that year, nan 2 companies became Fountain Life.

Kapp remained CEO pinch some Diamandis and Robbins arsenic his co-founders and committee members.

Today his committee besides includes Hariri arsenic an adviser; Todd Wanek, CEO of Ashley Furniture Industries, arsenic an investor; and able Indian business mogul B.K. Modi arsenic an investor arsenic well.

Fountain Life tells TechCrunch exclusively that it conscionable raised an $18 cardinal bid B, led by EOS Ventures, pinch information from astir of nan existing members of nan board. Fountain antecedently raised an $80 cardinal Series A and has raised astir $108 cardinal total, Kapp said.

Longevity arsenic a taxable of superior study by nan aesculapian organization is simply a caller field. When Kapp (pictured below) first launched his center, “We didn’t cognize precisely what longevity meant,” he said. But complete nan past 4 aliases 5 years, overmuch much investigation has been done. 

The first rule of longevity, he said, is “don’t dice of thing stupid.” Therefore, Fountain Life’s centers, of which location are 4 today, person a dense attraction connected prevention screening, looking for illnesses and chronic conditions astatine their earliest stages erstwhile they thin to beryllium asymptomatic. Blood tests and assemblage scans stitchery information connected complete 100 biomarkers from liver fat to “microbiome concentrations,” he said.

The 2nd main is optimization, meaning improving those markers pinch scientifically validated treatments, he said. And nan 3rd main is “using nan latest regenerative therapies nether FDA trials,” to dainty unwellness aliases execute optimization.

Screening tests whitethorn discover, for example, mini intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), which, near untreated, whitethorn lead to definite cancers, he said. The solution, if caught early, is to reconstruct microbiome equilibrium pinch specific, prescribed microbiotics.

Dr. William KappImage Credits:Fountain Life

For Fountain’s members, testing is repeated each 4th aliases so, and patients tin way results and inquire questions of an AI-powered app called Zori.

But it’s pricey, Kapp admitted. A afloat subscription costs $30,000 a year, and $10,000 will screen conscionable nan testing process and AI, but not ongoing tests and aesculapian support.

Still, Kapp remembers 2 stories that told him this activity was connected nan correct track. The woman of a Robbins instrumentality bought a rank for her husband, and nan tests caught early-stage, asymptomatic kidney cancer. The hubby is now cancer-free. 

When world hotelier Sam Nazarian was exploring a business pinch Fountain to put longevity centers successful luxury hotels, Nazarian did Fountain’s tests and recovered a encephalon aneurysm. They successfully treated it, Nazarian has publicly said. 

Kapp says nan caller backing will let nan institution to unfastened much centers. In summation to Naples; Westchester, New York; Orlando; and Dallas, a halfway successful Houston will unfastened successful December. Centers successful Los Angeles and Miami are planned for Q2 of 2026. 

He hopes to lick nan affordability rumor by moving connected “clinic development” wherever Fountain trains aesculapian accommodation connected its methodologies. Kapp says that arsenic nan tech and expertise go much wide available, this will thrust down costs for access.

Fountain is not nan only doctor-driven longevity testing startup. Famed functional wellness expert Mark Hyman has a institution called Function Health. It offers a package of astir 160 humor tests, pinch follow-up tests each 3 to six months, for a $500/year rank (with further fees for further humor tests). Its level likewise analyzes and tracks trial results, though it doesn’t do afloat assemblage scans aliases connection nonstop entree to physicians.