June Human & Planetary Health Newsletter

In this edition:

  • Mirvie, Pioneer in Predicting Unexpected Pregnancy Complications, Raises $60M
  • Endpoint Health Raises $52M to Expand and Advance Precision Immunology Pipeline
  • Chemix Announces its AI-Powered Battery Platform to Accelerate the Transition to Sustainable Energy
  • Mammoth Co-founder Janice Chen & Endpoint Health Co-founder Diego Rey Share Founder Journey Insights at TechCrunch Early Stage
  • Mammoth CEO Trevor Martin Joins Ursheet Parikh & Arvind Gupta to Share the Hard Truths of Building Engineering Biology Companies
  • VR Meditation Company TRIPP Raises $11M to Build the Mindful Metaverse

Mirvie, Pioneer in Predicting Unexpected Pregnancy Complications, Raises $60M

Unexpected complications affect one in five pregnancies, yet women, expecting parents and doctors lack a reliable way to detect complications before symptoms appear. Mirvie’s new funding will support the continued clinical and commercial development of their proprietary RNA platform, which is the first to predict preeclampsia and preterm birth months before they happen.

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Endpoint Health Raises $52M to Expand and Advance Precision Immunology Pipeline

Precision Immunology Platform Endpoint Health is dedicated to addressing unmet needs in immune-mediated acute and chronic diseases. This new funding will be used to expand its therapeutic pipeline to include programs for chronic immune-mediated diseases as well as to advance their precision sepsis therapy to a Phase II clinical trial.

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Chemix Announces its AI-Powered Battery Platform to Accelerate the Transition to Sustainable Energy

The movement toward electric transportation and renewable energy is rapidly going mainstream and will hugely impact our planetary health. However, the lithium-ion battery market is heavily supply constrained as new chemistries and better testing processes are required to improve performance and unlock the supply of batteries. We’re thrilled to partner with the Chemix team as they work to save our planet, one sustainable battery at a time

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Mammoth Co-founder Janice Chen & Endpoint Health Co-founder Diego Rey Share Founder Journey Insights at TechCrunch Early Stage

How do you evolve from PhD to startup founder and beyond? We recently hosted a series of conversations at TechCrunch Early Stage, including one with Mammoth’s Janice Chen and Endpoint’s Diego Rey, who shared their learnings on how to choose the right co-founders, advice for first-time founders, and more.

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Mammoth CEO Trevor Martin Joins Ursheet Parikh & Arvind Gupta to Share the Hard Truths of Building Engineering Biology Companies

Mammoth CEO Trevor Martin joined Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh and Arvind Gupta along with WSGR’s Raj Judge at Built With Biology to discuss company building in human & planetary health from inception to iconic. They shared insights on creating built-to-last vs built-to-sell companies, building and designing a platform, mission to market vs mission to science, and more.

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VR Meditation Company TRIPP Raises $11M to Build the Mindful Metaverse

XR wellness platform TRIPP has raised $11M to continue building the mindful metaverse that can, in the words of CEO Nanea Reeves, “deepen connection to self, facilitate mental well-being and enable personal and collective transformation.” They have also announced the acquisition of cross-service world-building platform Eden to enable users to further customize their TRIPP experiences.

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