On this week's a16z Raising Health podcast, Vijay Pande and I interviewed tom hale, CEO of ŌURA

Our conversation spans lots of fun topics, including:

- Our love for our Oura rings, despite them being literal “buzz kills” in revealing the ruinous effect of alcohol on…

Healthcare represents a colossal, untapped market ripe for technological disruption.

Vijay Pande & Daisy Wolf call on tech to build in healthcare in one of our top articles of 2023: a16z.com/hey-tech-its-t…

We thank our LPs and Entrepreneurs for having the faith to enable us to continue our journey. We appreciate you so much. a16z.com/new-funds-new-…

Welcome Erin Price-Wright! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Why Milu Matters:
▪️ Upwards of 80% of medical bills have an error
▪️ 1 in 3 prescriptions could be less expensive
▪️ 20M referrals are sent to the wrong type of specialist every year

Milu Health uses AI and interoperability rails to help consumers make sense of their doctor and…

🚨 Announcing...the top 100 consumer genAI apps!

We ranked every AI web product by usage - and for the first time, ranked mobile apps too.

Consumer AI is moving fast, with some major updates since our last ranks 6 months ago.

Our takeaways 👇

Thrilled to announce that we a16z have led a $4.8M seed round into Milu Health, a company that uses AI to drive cost savings in healthcare for employees.

Congrats to the amazing Sasha Gribov and Gautam Kumar. We fortunate to get to work with you!

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A small glimmer of good news in scary times for reproductive rights:

NY Times: CVS and Walgreens Will Begin Selling Abortion Pills This Month

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One Julie wasn't enough for our team, so we're thrilled to announce Julie Klapstein as our newest Advisory Partner at a16z Bio + Health.

Here we discuss her work at some of *The Most Interesting Healthcare Platform Companies You've Never Heard of* e.g. MultiPlan and Availity…

In honor of Valentine's Day, a16z consumer is dropping a market map on AI x social 💗

We don't think tech has to make us feel more alone.

In fact, it can help spark and foster new relationships, and help users build existing ones.

What we're excited about 👇

We don't inspect the foundation of a building only when it’s collapsing, so why hold off on advanced health tech until we're already sick?

In my recent chat with Josh Clemente, co-founder of Levels, & Daisy Wolf we discussed wearables as key to preventative care a16z

Taylor Swift is old news, I am talking market maps over here!

Our team a16z has spent the past year talking to founders, tracking usage, and envisioning the future of education.

This post is a culmination of what we've seen + the characteristics that get us excited 👇

The one and only 🐐: Alexandra Raisman. She shares her thoughts on:
🤸‍♀️the transition from a highly regimented, tightly coached life of daily cutthroat competition, to one of more autonomy about the best use of her time...
🤸‍♀️...which now includes investing in companies impacting mental

A break from regularly scheduled healthcare content for a video of my *all-time* greatest athletic achievement (the bar is low): bowling a strike at the White House bowling alley 💁‍♀️🎳

100% of stock trades used to be made by humans. Today, 80% are made by computer algorithms.

AI is about to bring a similar revolution to healthcare. And many don't realize how big this will be.

'Underestimating AI in Healthcare' --
Daisy Wolf Jay Rughani Adela Tomsejova…