Microbiome is next frontier for digital health: Viome, DayTwo, Vivante - Business Insider

Here's how the microbiome companies they're betting on plan to succeed.At-home kits that let patients sample their stool offer an alluring promise: insight into what's going on inside our guts.

If the data from the microbiome can be turned into a useful health product, entrepreneurs and investors believe they could be onto the next big wellness trend, similar to the way genetic insights have been turned into a range of hot consumer products by the likes of 23andMe andBut testing poop isn't quite as simple as spitting in a tube for a genetic test.

Kimon Angelides previously founded Livongo, the first digital health startup to go public in three years.A serial entrepreneur with a PhD in biochemistry, Angelides previously helped start Livongo, a company that uses a suite of digital tools to help people with diabetes manage their condition. This summer, Livongo became thein three years. It raised more than $350 million in its IPO, and has a market value of about $1.8 billion.

"Here we can actually help and use digital health therapeutics for what they were designed for," Angelides, who launched Vivante in 2016, told Business Insider.

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