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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Function Health Acquires Ezra, Launches $499 Full-Body MRI Scan Backed By Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, And Kevin Hart
Function Health, the rapidly growing health-tech startup on a mission to help people live 100 healthy years, announced in a statement on Monday a game-changing acquisition that's already turning heads in Silicon Valley and Hollywood alike. The Austin-based company, known for offering over 160 advanced lab tests through its membership platform, has officially acquired Ezra, a New York startup offering full-body MRI scans powered by AI, according to CNBC. Don't Miss: Deloitte's fastest-growing software company partners with Amazon, Walmart & Target – Maker of the $60,000 foldable home has 3 factory buildings, 600+ houses built, and big plans to solve housing — The deal, revealed in the company's statement, signals a major move in the consumer longevity space. According to Fierce Healthcare, the startup is backed by big-name celebrities including Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Kevin Hart, Jay Shetty, Zac Efron, Blake Griffin, Colin Kaepernick, and investor Ari Emanuel. Function is now rolling out a 22-minute full-body MRI for just $499, with the company saying in its statement that it's a third of the price of Ezra's previous $1,500 scan. Function co-founder and CEO Jonathan Swerdlin told CNBC, "What labs aren't covering, scans can see, and what scans couldn't touch on, labs cover." Ezra's scans are designed to catch disease before symptoms ever surface. From cancers to degenerative spine issues, silent strokes to liver disease, the AI-enhanced imaging adds a crucial layer to Function's preventive arsenal. According to Ezra founder Emi Gal, who lost his mother to late-stage cancer and started Ezra to change that reality, the goal has always been to find disease early enough to make a difference, CNBC reports. Trending: Donald Trump just announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure deal — . Function is keeping Gal on board to continue leading the MRI division. "Over the past six years my team and I have helped countless people find cancer, many of whom are now cancer-free," Gal said in the startup's statement. "We are now scaling this to millions together with Function." According to Radiology Business, the scans will be immediately available to Function's nearly 200,000 members at almost 100 partner sites, including Longhorn Imaging, Princeton Radiology, and Rayus. Plans are already in motion to scale that to 1,000 locations nationwide. Function has also integrated Ezra's proprietary AI stack: Ezra Flash AI for image quality, Ezra AI for interpreting scans, and Ezra Reporter to simplify radiology language. Together, these tools compress scan time from 60 minutes to just 22, and slash the cost to a fraction of what competitors charge, Radiology Business Health is built around a single idea: health should be in your hands. Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Mark Hyman calls it the most meaningful venture of his career, a platform rooted in P4 medicine: predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory. The aim is to give people the data they need to act early, rather than waiting for symptoms to become emergencies, according to Time. Instead of relying on reactive systems and fragmented care, members gain access to centralized, real-time insights drawn from lab tests, full-body imaging, and AI interpretation. Hyman believes this breaks the old model where people had to ask doctors and insurers for permission to understand their own bodies. As he told Time, 'The only way to do that is to have your own data, and not be limited by what you get at your doctor's.' The company is also aggressively scaling. After raising $53 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health fund, with additional backing from Draft Ventures, G9 Ventures, and 53 Stations, Fierce Healthcare reports, Function is seeking $200 million more to fuel growth, according to CNBC. Read Next:'Scrolling To UBI' — Deloitte's #1 fastest-growing software company allows users to earn money on their phones. Image: Shutterstock UNLOCKED: 5 NEW TRADES EVERY WEEK. Click now to get top trade ideas daily, plus unlimited access to cutting-edge tools and strategies to gain an edge in the markets. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? APPLE (AAPL): Free Stock Analysis Report TESLA (TSLA): Free Stock Analysis Report This article Function Health Acquires Ezra, Launches $499 Full-Body MRI Scan Backed By Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, And Kevin Hart originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Function Health Acquires Ezra, Launches $499 Full-Body MRI Scan Backed By Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, And Kevin Hart
Function Health, the rapidly growing health-tech startup on a mission to help people live 100 healthy years, announced in a statement on Monday a game-changing acquisition that's already turning heads in Silicon Valley and Hollywood alike. The Austin-based company, known for offering over 160 advanced lab tests through its membership platform, has officially acquired Ezra, a New York startup offering full-body MRI scans powered by AI, according to CNBC. Don't Miss: Deloitte's fastest-growing software company partners with Amazon, Walmart & Target – Maker of the $60,000 foldable home has 3 factory buildings, 600+ houses built, and big plans to solve housing — The deal, revealed in the company's statement, signals a major move in the consumer longevity space. According to Fierce Healthcare, the startup is backed by big-name celebrities including Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Kevin Hart, Jay Shetty, Zac Efron, Blake Griffin, Colin Kaepernick, and investor Ari Emanuel. Function is now rolling out a 22-minute full-body MRI for just $499, with the company saying in its statement that it's a third of the price of Ezra's previous $1,500 scan. Function co-founder and CEO Jonathan Swerdlin told CNBC, "What labs aren't covering, scans can see, and what scans couldn't touch on, labs cover." Ezra's scans are designed to catch disease before symptoms ever surface. From cancers to degenerative spine issues, silent strokes to liver disease, the AI-enhanced imaging adds a crucial layer to Function's preventive arsenal. According to Ezra founder Emi Gal, who lost his mother to late-stage cancer and started Ezra to change that reality, the goal has always been to find disease early enough to make a difference, CNBC reports. Trending: Donald Trump just announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure deal — . Function is keeping Gal on board to continue leading the MRI division. "Over the past six years my team and I have helped countless people find cancer, many of whom are now cancer-free," Gal said in the startup's statement. "We are now scaling this to millions together with Function." According to Radiology Business, the scans will be immediately available to Function's nearly 200,000 members at almost 100 partner sites, including Longhorn Imaging, Princeton Radiology, and Rayus. Plans are already in motion to scale that to 1,000 locations nationwide. Function has also integrated Ezra's proprietary AI stack: Ezra Flash AI for image quality, Ezra AI for interpreting scans, and Ezra Reporter to simplify radiology language. Together, these tools compress scan time from 60 minutes to just 22, and slash the cost to a fraction of what competitors charge, Radiology Business Health is built around a single idea: health should be in your hands. Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Mark Hyman calls it the most meaningful venture of his career, a platform rooted in P4 medicine: predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory. The aim is to give people the data they need to act early, rather than waiting for symptoms to become emergencies, according to Time. Instead of relying on reactive systems and fragmented care, members gain access to centralized, real-time insights drawn from lab tests, full-body imaging, and AI interpretation. Hyman believes this breaks the old model where people had to ask doctors and insurers for permission to understand their own bodies. As he told Time, 'The only way to do that is to have your own data, and not be limited by what you get at your doctor's.' The company is also aggressively scaling. After raising $53 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health fund, with additional backing from Draft Ventures, G9 Ventures, and 53 Stations, Fierce Healthcare reports, Function is seeking $200 million more to fuel growth, according to CNBC. Read Next:'Scrolling To UBI' — Deloitte's #1 fastest-growing software company allows users to earn money on their phones. Image: Shutterstock UNLOCKED: 5 NEW TRADES EVERY WEEK. Click now to get top trade ideas daily, plus unlimited access to cutting-edge tools and strategies to gain an edge in the markets. Get the latest stock analysis from Benzinga? APPLE (AAPL): Free Stock Analysis Report TESLA (TSLA): Free Stock Analysis Report This article Function Health Acquires Ezra, Launches $499 Full-Body MRI Scan Backed By Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, And Kevin Hart originally appeared on © 2025 Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Time Magazine
08-05-2025
- Health
- Time Magazine
Mark Hyman
Your blood holds a lot of secrets. Some you find out too late. Dr. Mark Hyman co-founded Function Health, a personalized health testing platform, to protect against that outcome. 'Health care is missing the boat on a lot of really important things,' says the preventive medicine guru, who founded the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. 'There are things you can manage yourself that will help you feel better and live longer.' For $499 per year, Function Health customers get two rounds of testing: an initial assessment with more than 100 blood tests, and then three to six months later, a follow-up including 60-plus retests to see how your numbers are changing. The biomarkers that are tested offer a status update on heart, thyroid, metabolic, kidney, and liver health, along with essential nutrients, heavy metal exposures, and more, far exceeding the basic panels most primary care doctors stick to. While no treatment guidance is provided based on results, Function members receive personalized insights that flag what to follow up on, in addition to suggested dietary tweaks and supplements to consider. Some doctors believe handing over that much data to patients is a slippery slope: Subtle changes or irregularities in the biomarkers Function tests don't always mean anything, but could lead members down a rabbit hole of additional (costly) testing or into full-blown health anxiety. The Function team argues it's necessary to create a holistic view of well-being. 'The average doctor doesn't think about how to create health,' Hyman says. 'They think about how to treat diseases. Unless you're empowered with your own health data, and the knowledge and information about what to do with it, you're in a health care system that's waiting around.' Function Health, he says, offers a better approach: 'You become the CEO of your own health.'
CNBC
05-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Function Health buys Ezra, launches full-body scan for a third of the price
Blood testing startup Function Health on Monday announced the acquisition of full-body MRI scanning company Ezra and launched a new, 22-minute scan for $499. Function offers a $499 annual subscription where members complete more than 160 blood tests and track their results over time. The company said adding Ezra's scanning technology to its platform will allow its users to screen for more conditions and access a more complete picture of their health. "It makes so much sense," Jonathan Swerdlin, the co-founder and CEO of Function, said in an interview. "What labs aren't covering, scans can see, and what scans couldn't touch on, labs cover." Function and Ezra declined to disclose the financial details of the acquisition. Before Monday's announcement, Ezra's cheapest offering was a 30-minute scan that cost participants $1,495. Ezra, founded in 2018, offers a range of full-body MRI scans that can help patients detect cancer and other conditions. The company partners with existing imaging facilities across more than 70 locations in the U.S., according to its website. Full-body MRI scans have surged in popularity in recent years after celebrities like Kim Kardashian began posting about them on social media. Medical experts have mixed feelings about the screenings, in part because they're expensive, can result in unnecessary care and can cause patients to worry. Ezra's primary competitor is Prenuvo, another full-body MRI scanning startup. In February, Prenuvo announced that it closed a $120 million funding round, and it also launched a new blood test to provide insights into patients' hormonal, cardiovascular, metabolic and immune health. Ezra has raised a total of $44 million from investors, while Function has raised a total of $53 million as of June 2024. Function is reportedly seeking more than $200 million in fresh capital at a valuation of around $2 billion, according to a February report from Bloomberg. Emi Gal, the founder and CEO of Ezra, said he has known Function's Swerdlin for years, and that the two began chatting last year about potentially collaborating through a commercial partnership. Over time, though, he said it became clear that an acquisition ultimately made more sense. "I'm pinching myself," Gal said in an interview. "This is just a phenomenal outcome." The company was able to shorten its new scan time to 22 minutes by leveraging artificial intelligence that was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January, Gal said. The AI, as well as Function's "financial prowess," helped reduce the price of the scan to $499, he added. The new 22-minute scan will be available to Function members starting on Monday. Function does not publicly disclose how many patients subscribe to its platform, but Swerdlin said it's in the "hundreds of thousands." Dr. Mark Hyman, co-founder and the chief medical officer of Function, said acquiring Ezra was a natural part of Function's evolution. "What used to be the domain of the wealthy is now accessible to everybody, including comprehensive imaging," Hyman said in an interview. "It truly makes a difference for people and saves lives."
Associated Press
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
FUNCTION HEALTH DEBUTS POETIC "LONG LIVE" CAMPAIGN
Savannah O'Leary directs the cinematic celebration of health and the moments that make life worth living AUSTIN, Texas, May 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Function Health, the first personalized health platform to offer access to 160+ advanced lab tests, has launched its first live-action brand campaign, Long live. Directed by Savannah O'Leary of SLMBR PRTY, the film series celebrates life's meaningful moments, amplifying Function Health's mission to empower individuals to live 100 healthy years. The breakthrough brand campaign is a cinematic ode to the everyday moments that make life worth staying healthy for. Long live is an ethos, a rallying cry, and a call to action that Function Health shares with its consumers. As the foundation of Function Health's first brand campaign, Long live is as much of a creative device as a campaign line. Function Health believes that the universal stories and elements within the brand films will encourage viewers to find a personal connection with their health journeys. A social first campaign, Long live, will come alive through paid and organic assets on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, and LinkedIn. It will also live on connected TV like YouTubeTV, Netflix, Discovery, Max, Hulu, Disney, ESPN, Peacock, and Paramount, as well as mom-targeted podcasts. The first Long live campaign is Long live Moms, launching for Mother's Day. Long live Moms is a tender tribute to motherhood's lasting impact—a reminder that self-care is the greatest act of love. Part film, part children's book, it encourages mothers to prioritize their long-term health. The campaign culminates in a sweeping anthem film, portraying rest, play, and vitality as a reflection of Function Health's vision of empowering healthy lives. Each film highlights health, proactive care, and the people impacted by Function Health. Poetic narration and naturalistic, multigenerational characters capture the beauty of daily life, inspiring viewers to take ownership of their health. Director Savannah O'Leary captures this emotional arc with a deeply human lens. Her use of handheld camerawork and naturalistic storytelling brings a cohesive emotional throughline to each vignette, infusing these filmic portraits with warmth, energy, and strikingly memorable imagery. 'Working with Function Health has been a uniquely collaborative experience,' remarks the SLMBR PRTY director. 'From the start, there was a clear mutual trust that allowed us to build something thoughtful together.' Executive Creative Director of Function Health, Tova Morgan, adds, 'Everything about this campaign was intentional and strategic, designed to meet people where they are and to make people feel seen and that it's time to live fully.' For more information on Function, visit or follow @functionhealth on Instagram. About Function Health Function is the first health platform to include access to 160+ lab tests, helping individuals understand their whole body—from heart and hormones to thyroid, nutrients, toxins, autoimmunity, immunity, and beyond. Unlike traditional testing, which is often costly, inaccessible, and done reactively, Function offers access to comprehensive testing along with detailed and actionable insights from the world's top doctors at just $499 per year. This is eight times more lab testing than a typical physical, which averages 19 labs tests and may miss critical aspects of your health. All results and insights are continuously tracked and securely stored in Function's platform, allowing individuals to uncover trends and watch health transformations over time. Since mid-2023, nearly 200,000 members have joined Function. About SLMBR PRTY SLMBR PRTY is a women-founded and led production company that evolved from an independent filmmakers' collective. Devoted to craft and intent on transcending tradition, our work is intelligent, artful, and unexpected. Our creator community makes us unique as a production company. This is the source of our passionate perspectives. Our roster of directors is ascendant, elevated, and emergent. Media Contact Autumn Communications [email protected] LONG LIVE Campaign Credits (Function Health): Co-founder, CEO - Jonathan Swerdlin Chief of Staff to CEO - Nicole Granet VP, Brand - Kelly Johnson Executive Creative Director - Tova Morgan Associate Creative Director - Rachel Hortman Sr. Creative Marketing Copy lead - Steph Sica Sr. Designer - Vero Batterson Sr. Brand Designer - Lauren Pettersen Graphics - Shea Lord Director of Brand Design - Aaron McGuire Brand and Web Design Lead - Brittany Blumenthal Director of Function Studios - Kelly Wilkinson Producer - Ciera Tavana Director of Brand Engagement - Erika Brickley Events Lead - Sophia Augustine Social Community Manager - Carly Schloss Social Intelligence Manager - Alex Cerone Talent & Creator Partnerships - Ben Champion Talent & Creator Partnerships - Clayton Hambrick Talent & Creator Partnerships - Megan Geiss Harrop Director, Brand Integration & Ops - Alia Cohan Sr. Project Manager - Christine Hughes VP, Growth - Ryan Maloney Head of Member Acquisition - Joshua Guilbaud VP, Product - Meredith Harris Staff Product Manager - Ginny Patrick Senior Product Copywriter - Becca Stickler Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Seth Weisfeld Shea Sulkin, Product Design Director Co-Founder & General Counsel, Dan Swerdlin Deputy General Counsel, Charlene Choi LONG LIVE Video Production Credits (Slmbr Prty): Co-founder/EP, Sarah Donnenberg Co-founder/HOP, Kirstin Vanskiver Director, Savannah O'Leary Line Producer/Post Producer, Kieran Altmann Editor (Mother's Day): Erik Klein Editor (Brand): Hanna Sturworld Mix & Sound Design: Jonathan Fuhrer Colorist: Nick Metcalf (Rare Medium) Color Producer: Lucy Gatanis (Rare Medium) Original Score: Michael Dragovic (Interval Media) Conform Artist: Josh Weiss LONG LIVE MOMS Book Credits: Writer: Tova Morgan, Executive Creative Director, Function Illustrator: Mokshini Designer: Racherl Hortman, Associate Creative Director, Function Print Producer: Suzee Barrabee View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Function Health
