Who Runs the Blood-Test Companies: Founders, Funding, Privacy and Lawsuits
The company checks behind our blood-test rankings: who founded each service, what backs it, how long it has sold tests, how it handles health data, and any lawsuits or breaches we found.
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This guide
Blood Testing & Biomarkers- Question
- Who is behind Function Health, Superpower, Mito Health, Ulta Lab Tests and Everlywell?
- Sources
- 27 cited
- Clinician review
- None; sources cited inline
Key takeaways
4 points- Function Health has the strongest founding team and backing: Mark Hyman, MD, and a $298M Series B12.
- Ulta Lab Tests has the longest clean record: selling since 2013, BBB A+, no lawsuits found3.
- Mito Health is the youngest and smallest of the five ($4M raised), and its listed physician co-founder is now shown as an advisor not licensed in any US state45.
- Everlywell and Quest carry the heaviest legal or privacy marks: IgG test class actions for Everlywell, a 2019 vendor breach for Quest67.
Founders
- Function Health: Mark Hyman, MD, who founded the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine; CEO Jonathan Swerdlin, a repeat founder; COO Pranitha Patil (ex-Accenture health strategy); CTO Mike Nemke; Seth Weisfeld; Daniel Swerdlin1.
- Superpower: Jacob Peters, Max Marchione and Kevin Unkrich, founded 2023; business and engineering founders with prior startups; none is described as a clinician in launch coverage89.
- Mito Health: Kenneth Lou (CEO) and Tee-Ming Chew, co-founders of Seedly (sold to ShopBack in 2018); Joel Kek, former TraceTogether tech lead; Ryan Ware, described in 2023 as a doctor in Singapore public hospitals and now listed as an advisor not licensed to practice medicine in any US state105.
- Ulta Lab Tests: CEO and co-founder John Roehm, with Nick Roehm and Brandon Sunde as members of the LLC113.
- Everlywell: Julia Cheek, founder and CEO, who started the company in 201512.
- InsideTracker: Gil Blander, PhD (Weizmann Institute PhD, MIT postdoctoral fellowship), founded 20091314.
Funding and time in market
- Function Health: a Series A led by a16z (2024) and a $298M Series B led by Redpoint (Nov 2025); beta launched in 202312.
- Superpower: $4M pre-seed (2024) and a $30M Series A led by Forerunner (2025)98.
- Mito Health: $4M raised in total, including Y Combinator; founded 2023, US launch summer 2024415.
- Ulta Lab Tests: no outside funding disclosed; business started April 20133.
- Everlywell: more than $250M raised by Dec 202016.
- Quest Health: the consumer arm of Quest Diagnostics, a public company, selling patient-initiated tests since a 2016 pilot17.
Privacy and legal record
- Function Health: publishes a consumer health data privacy policy and says it never sells or shares health data with advertisers or data brokers; no lawsuit against it found1819.
- Superpower: says it never sells member data or shares it with insurers, advertisers or brokers20. Defendant in Function Health v. Superpower (Lanham Act false advertising, filed Jan 26, 2026), dismissed June 12, 2026 after the parties settled21.
- Mito Health: publishes consumer-health-data and genomic privacy pages and says it does not use health or genetic information for advertising; no lawsuit found22.
- Ulta Lab Tests: publishes a notice of privacy practices; we found no explicit no-sale statement. BBB-accredited since 2013 with an A+ rating; no lawsuit found233.
- Everlywell: its privacy notice lists consumer health data as used for marketing and marks it as shared24; class actions over its IgG food sensitivity test (Spiro; Toth, where the First Circuit heard an arbitration appeal in 2024)625.
- Quest Health: Quest says Quest Consumer Inc. does not provide HIPAA-covered services; a 2019 breach at billing vendor AMCA exposed data of about 11.9 million Quest patients, not lab results267.
- InsideTracker: states HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 Type II certification; we found no explicit no-sale statement; no lawsuit found27.
How we checked
We read each company’s own pages, then looked for independent confirmation: press coverage of funding, court dockets, the BBB and regulator notices. “None found” means our search on Oct 13, 2026 turned up nothing, not that nothing exists.
How we make money: Mito Health, Everlywell and HealthLabs.com are affiliate partners, so Kymata Health may earn a commission if you buy through their links on this page, at no extra cost to you; the owner of Kymata Health also pays for a Mito membership. We have no affiliate relationship with Function Health, Superpower, Ulta Lab Tests, Quest Health or InsideTracker. Payment never changes a score: every service is scored on the same published rubric.
How this was checked: researched and written by our editorial team from each company’s own pages, court records and press coverage, read on Oct 13, 2026. It is not medical advice.
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References
Every study and document cited in this guide, numbered as in the text.
Sources
27 sources- 1Investing in Function Health (founding team). Andreessen Horowitz, 2024.
- 2Function Health lands $298M series B, rolls out medical intelligence model. Fierce Healthcare, 2025.
- 3Ulta Lab Tests LLC business profile (A+, accredited since 2013, business started April 2013). Better Business Bureau, 2026.
- 4Mito Health raises US$2.2M in seed round (total raised $4M). Mito Health, 2025.
- 5About Mito Health: advisors. Mito Health, 2026.
- 6Spiro v. Everly Well, Inc. class action complaint (C.D. Cal.): IgG food sensitivity test. Truth in Advertising (court filing), 2023.
- 7Quest Diagnostics statement on the AMCA data security incident (about 11.9 million patients). Quest Diagnostics, 2019.
- 8Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear. TechCrunch, 2025.
- 9Superpower raises $4M pre-seed to launch preventative healthcare platform. Business Wire, 2024.
- 10Seedly co-founders raise $1.7m in pre-seed funding for new health-tech AI start-up. The Straits Times, 2023.
- 11Press information room (John Roehm, CEO and co-founder). Ulta Lab Tests, 2026.
- 12Julia Cheek profile: founded Everly Health in 2015. Forbes, 2026.
- 13Gil Blander, PhD: author profile (Weizmann Institute PhD, MIT postdoctoral fellowship, founded InsideTracker in 2009). InsideTracker, 2026.
- 14InsideTracker team and company timeline (founded 2009, launched 2013). InsideTracker, 2026.
- 15Mito Health company profile (founded 2023, Summer 2024 batch). Y Combinator, 2026.
- 16Austin’s Everlywell lands $175 million for expansion (total raised more than $250 million). Austin American-Statesman, 2020.
- 17Quest Diagnostics launches QuestDirect patient-initiated testing (pilot). Quest Diagnostics, 2016.
- 18Function Health pricing: about $30 a month ($365 yearly membership), 160+ lab tests a year, clinician review. Function Health, 2026.
- 19Security: health data never sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers. Function Health, 2026.
- 20Superpower membership: about $29 a month ($349 a year), 150+ biomarkers across 2 blood draws. Superpower, 2026.
- 21Function Health, Inc. v. Superpower Health Inc., No. 2:26-cv-00810 (C.D. Cal.): docket and June 12, 2026 order of dismissal after settlement. Justia Dockets, 2026.
- 22Mito Membership: $9 a month or $99 a year, at-cost pricing. Mito Health, 2026.
- 23Ulta Lab Tests home page: Baseline Biomarkers panels and prices. Ulta Lab Tests, 2026.
- 24Everlywell website privacy notice (consumer health data table). Everlywell, 2026.
- 25Toth v. Everly Well, Inc., No. 23-1727 (1st Cir. 2024): IgG food sensitivity test class action, arbitration appeal. U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2024.
- 26Privacy policies (Quest Consumer Inc. does not provide HIPAA-covered services). Quest Diagnostics, 2026.
- 27InsideTracker Membership FAQ: Quest Diagnostics draws, HIPAA and SOC 2 statement, science-team review of recommendations. InsideTracker, 2026.
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