Thriva, the company giving people access to affordable, clinical-grade insights through home-testing kits has raised £7.5m from investors.
The funding will support Thriva as it builds towards its ambitious vision: to put optimal health in anyone’s hands. The company, in the ‘proactive health’ category, has helped over 100,000 people understand how their lifestyle is impacting their health.
Their customers can understand, keep track of and improve what’s happening inside their bodies. Its at-home testing kits are processed by UKAS accredited laboratories and can analyse anything from vitamins and minerals to hormone function to indicators of heart disease and diabetes.
Hamish Grierson, co-founder and CEO of Thriva said “Our mission remains the same: To provide anybody with profound control over their own wellbeing. Thriva is creating affordable access to clinical-grade information that show you what steps you can take towards thriving health.”
“Most people are still not aware that companies like Thriva exist. That is something we want to change as we build towards a truly consumer-led future of health. Swathes of the population are already proactively seeking improved health, and are waking up to the fact that it’s within their gift to understand and control. It’s a system we see as working in tandem with organisations like the NHS, which offer a crucial service for people at the point of need when sick and/or serious care is needed.”
Andrew Wolfson, Managing Director of Pembroke VCT, said “There is a rapidly-growing market shift towards proactive healthcare and the maintenance of optimum health. Thriva now offers its customers a means of effectively monitoring and maintaining their health – and by doing so, lessening the likelihood of having to see a GP. Several of the Pembroke team have taken tests, and all of us have been impressed with the speed at which results were published, as well as the user-friendly interface and actionable next steps. More importantly, we have always maintained it is the quality of people that determines a business’s success. Hamish and the team have never failed to impress us.”
Launched in 2016 by Hamish Grierson, Eliot Brooks and Tom Livesey, Thriva are headquartered in London and employs 35 people.
