In the preventive healthcare sector, the deep-tech company offering personalized digital support to help people live better is winning the backing of prominent business angels, who are investing €20 million to kick-start the venture.
Article published by CFNEWS, on January 28, 2022.
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Founded this autumn, Zoī (“life” in Greek) plans to open its first center by the end of 2022, “at the intersection of medicine and wellness.” A 360° health check-up (blood tests, ECG, etc.) will serve as the basis for developing a personalized program delivered through digital support, enabling patients to put into practice all the recommendations — exercise, sleep, nutrition, stress management, etc. — that will drastically improve their quality of life, immediately and over the long term, at a cost of €2,000 per year.
To achieve this, the young company combines data science and behavioral science through a proprietary deep-tech tool. It has just raised €20 million in a seed round that brought together an array of business angels around the company.
50 employees by the end of 2022
“We were looking for individual investors who were genuinely interested in the project and who could provide us with personal support,” explain the founders, Ismaël Emelien, former special adviser to Emmanuel Macron, and Paul Dupuy, a serial entrepreneur (he notably co-founded Never Eat Alone), alongside Cédric Carbone and Fabrice Bonan, former Talend executives who served as CTO and CPO respectively, as well as Claude Dalle, an expert in 5P medicine (preventive, predictive, positive, personalized and participatory) and healthy aging.
With its “holistic, digital and physical” approach, the founding team has attracted Stéphane Bancel (Moderna) and Jean-Claude Marian (Orpea) as lead investors, as well as Xavier Niel (Free), Rodolphe Saadé (CMA CGM), Hassanein Hiridjee (Axian Group), Jean-Marie Messier (Messier Partners), Jean Moueix (Petrus), Emmanuel Goldstein (Morgan Stanley), and Patrick Levy-Waitz (Chairman of ITG and the Fondation Travailler Autrement).
“We are looking to expand our team, which already brings together some of the world’s leading specialists in their respective fields,” says Ismaël Emelien, who plans to increase the workforce fivefold, reaching 50 employees by the end of 2022.
The company is already offering those eager to get started the opportunity to pre-register.
