Levels, a software company that shows you how food affects your health, announced a $10 million Series A Extension to bring its mission of solving the metabolic health crisis to an even wider audience. The funding round included $3 million in crowdfunding from more than 2,000 investors, as well as investments from Long Journey, a16z, and others.
Launched in 2019, Levels has helped more than 60,000 members improve their metabolic health through personalized feedback based on biomarkers like real-time blood sugar (with optional continuous glucose monitors [CGMs]), blood testing, nutritional intake, and sleep and exercise data. And the Levels app combines AI-powered food logging and macro tracking with powerful accountability features like Habit Loops to help users understand what foods and lifestyle choices work best for their bodies. With over 700 million glucose data points and hundreds of thousands of food logs, Levels leverages its massive data set to provide personalized insights to members, backed by our panel of expert advisors.
The crowdfunding portion of the raise is Levels’ second crowdfunding round, raising $5 million of the original $38 million Series A in a crowdfunding round with over 1,400 members. And opening investment to its members and community aligns with Levels’ values of transparency and building in public. That community has grown to more than 18m views on its health-focused YouTube channel and 2m+ annual visitors to its metabolic health blog.
Over 128 million Americans have prediabetes or diabetes. Of the 88 million people with prediabetes, 84% do not know they have it. Levels’ mission is to solve the metabolic health crisis through biological observability by tracking numerous biomarkers, including glucose, and providing visibility into how diet and lifestyle choices affect people’s health and wellness. Levels empower people to make smart food and lifestyle choices based on their learning, starting with real-time visibility into blood glucose and metabolic blood testing.
Levels is also conducting a large Institutional Review Board-approved research study in collaboration with top researchers from around the world to increase understanding of glucose patterns among a wide variety of people, including different ages, genders, and races, and advance the science of how lifestyle choices can affect these patterns. In the same way fitness trackers quantify physical activity and exercise, Levels measures the impact of one’s diet and lifestyle on metabolic health by enabling members to see their health in real time.
KEY QUOTES:
“Simply tracking meals isn’t enough. That’s why Levels goes beyond basic food logging to actually show you how these choices affect your health, and what you should do to achieve your goals. Our members see results.”
- Levels CEO Sam Corcos
“Consumers want to take their health into their own hands, and Levels’ expertise, data science, and guidance through the app allows them to see real improvement, whether or not they’re wearing a CGM. This is how we start to address metabolic health at scale.”
- Co-founder Josh Clemente
“Levels is an immediate answer for the metabolic health crisis, the defining health crisis of our era. Both the health of our people and the fiscal solvency of our country are at stake — Levels is a case study of the application of technology to both.”
- Marc Andreessen, Levels investor and co-founder and general partner at a16z
