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Lotus Health AI Secures $41 Million In Seed And Series A Funding From Kleiner Perkins And CRV
Leading investors just backed Lotus Health AI (@lotus) with $41M to prove a new model of primary care can work: an AI doctor powered by real doctors.
Able to diagnose, prescribe, and refer. Anytime, for free.
Not generic AI advice — a real medical practice.
Lotus uses medical AI to collapse the cost of care, make doctors 10x more productive, and cut unnecessary paperwork and insurance friction so world-class primary care can be free for patients.
The round was co-led by Kleiner Perkins (Annie Case, Mamoon Hamid) and CRV (Saar Gur), with additional backing from Joe Montana’s Liquid 2, Adidas Family Office’s LEADVC and a group of high-profile healthcare and technology founders and operators, including Jerry Murdock (Insight Venture Partners), Michael Ovitz (CAA), Aneesh Chopra (first CTO of the United States), Vivek Garipalli (Clover Health), Othman Laraki (Color Genomics), Travis May (Datavant), Julia Cheek (Everlywell), Adrian Aoun (Forward & Torch), Harpreet Rai (former CEO of Oura), Colin Evans (OpenAI), Jacob Reider (former CMO, U.S. HHS), Harjinder Sandhu (CTO at Microsoft), and Ian Shakil (Augmedix), alongside physicians from Harvard and Stanford.
FOUNDERS: KJ Dhaliwal (@kjdhaliwal), Zekka Nelson
INVESTORS: Kleiner Perkins, CRV and leading healthcare & tech founders
ROUND: Seed + Series A
AMOUNT: $41,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, CA
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Barilla Acquires GOODLES For $88 Million Supported By Celebrity And Institutional InvestorsBarilla is acquiring GOODLES, the fast-growing better-for-you mac & cheese brand founded by Jen Zeszut and Paul Earle in 2020. Financial terms were not disclosed. GOODLES was last valued at $88M following its 2023 funding round.
Built remotely during the pandemic after pitching 100+ investors and testing more than 1,000 product iterations, GOODLES launched in late 2021 with four flavors and sold through its initial inventory in just two weeks.
The brand has since expanded across Target, Whole Foods, Walmart, Costco and other major retailers, growing from 0.8% to 7.8% of U.S. shelf-stable mac & cheese spending in three years and reaching profitability in 2024.
GOODLES raised capital from an unusually deep mix of institutional, celebrity and athlete investors. Its publicly disclosed backers include L Catterton, Springdale Ventures, Third Craft Partners, Willow Growth Partners, Alumni Ventures, Purple Arch Ventures, 1st Course Capital, GingerBread Capital, Cosmic Venture Partners, Electric Feel Ventures and IMG-Endeavor, alongside Gal Gadot, David Grutman, Christina Aguilera, Matt Rutler, Klay Thompson, Khris Middleton, Domantas Sabonis, DK Metcalf, Weston McKennie, Sergio Garcia, Aaron Gordon, Marcus Smart, Ilana Muhlstein, Marissa Hermer, Mau y Ricky, The Montaners, Biz Stone and Allison Rose.
Its $13M Series A was led by L Catterton in 2023, bringing GOODLES another step closer to becoming one of the biggest modern challengers to a category long dominated by legacy brands. Now, one of the world's largest pasta companies is buying it.
From a pandemic-era idea to an acquisition by Barilla in six years.
ACQUISITION: Undisclosed
LAST VALUATION: $88M
HQ: Santa Cruz, CA
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