"I was told my child would grow out of their eczema and allergies, but that wasn't the case.
From microbiome research I learned that I could improve my child's conditions by healing the gut, which was a game-changer," Cheryl Sew Hoy, founder of Tiny Health, says in a press release.
That's why the San Francisco-based startup, which has developed the first at-home infant gut microbiome test specifically for babies, has raised $8.5 million in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by Spero Ventures, per TechCrunch, which notes that 40% of children in the US are diagnosed with at least one chronic health condition, including eczema, asthma, diabetes, and food allergies.
Tiny Health focuses on the critical first 1,000 days of a child's life, where early detection of gut microbiome imbalances can prevent and even reverse chronic illnesses, considering that 80% of the immune system is located in the gut.
"It's important that, as parents, we have access to evidence-based gut microbiome technology that can meaningfully change health outcomes for our children," says Jason Jenks and Yeelin Tan, customers who participated in the funding round.
Tiny Health, which has developed whole family testing as well as vaginal microbiome testing, plans to
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