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Tiny Health

Microbiome gut health testing and plans

Overview

Tiny Health runs microbiome tests for families, focusing on mothers and young children (0-3 years) and including pregnancy and vaginal health tests. Tests use stool or vaginal swabs and are processed in a CLIA-certified lab, with results delivered in 3-4 weeks. The company offers personalized action plans and microbiome specialist consultations, plus a retesting service to track how diet, supplements, and lifestyle changes affect gut health. Its goal is to help families optimize gut health early and reduce the risk of gut-related issues like eczema, colic, allergies, and constipation.

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About Tiny Health

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Why Tiny Health is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsConsultingBiotechnologyHealthcare

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$46M

Headquarters

Austin, TX

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • September 29, 2026 brought $33 million from B Capital and new board support.
  • November 3, 2026 launched Microbiome Age and Gut-Body Connections, expanding engagement.
  • Powered by Tiny reportedly grew 4x in 2025, showing stronger B2B demand.

What critics are saying

  • Microbiome tests remain wellness products; Tiny Health lacks FDA clearance and reimbursement.
  • Viome and Evvy are better funded, pressuring Tiny Health’s consumer and provider share.
  • If 2026 adult research disappoints, its clinical-utility narrative weakens and churn rises.

What makes Tiny Health unique

  • Tiny Health uses shotgun metagenomics across 120,000+ genomes and lifespan coverage.
  • Its September 29, 2026 Series B funded proprietary dataset, TinyAI, and Powered by Tiny.
  • The 2025 infant eczema randomized trial gave Tiny Health uncommon published clinical evidence.

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Funding

Total Funding

$46M

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3 Rounds

Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-4%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-4%
GlobeNewswire
Nov 3rd, 2026
Tiny Health to unveil new microbiome intelligence features, Microbiome Age and Gut-Body Connections, at Eudēmonia Summit.

Tiny Health to unveil new microbiome intelligence features, Microbiome Age and Gut-Body Connections, at Eudēmonia Summit. The two new features provide deeper insights into the effects of the microbiome on full-body health and longevity. November 03, 2026 09:00 ET | Source: Tiny Health AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Tiny Health, the microbiome intelligence platform pioneering gut and vaginal microbiome testing across the lifespan, today announced the launch of two new features delivering deeper insights into microbiome health to consumers: Microbiome Age and Gut-Body Connections. The two features are being officially unveiled at Eudēmonia Summit, the transformational gathering dedicated to the science and practice of human flourishing, in West Palm Beach, FL, November 5 to 8. Gut Microbiome Age: A More Complete Picture Of Longevity A person's birthday only moves in one direction, but their Microbiome Age doesn't have to. Microbiome Age is a window into inflammaging, the slow rise in gut inflammation that comes with age, giving people a clear, trackable way to see where they stand. The feature adds a new dimension to understanding health and aging, one that chronological age alone can't capture, identifying patterns in the gut microbiome associated with age and estimating how old a person's microbiome appears to be relative to their chronological age. It is the result of growing customer demand for clear, trackable metrics that make complex health data (and the results of everyday health choices) easier to understand over time. Rather than looking at microbiome characteristics in isolated age groups, Tiny Health can visualize how the gut changes over decades and identify the microbial patterns associated with a more youthful or older microbiome. The value of Microbiome Age goes beyond a simple numerical score: the feature also reveals why a microbiome appears younger or older. Tiny Health breaks the metric down across dimensions including diversity and resilience, gut barrier and inflammation, beneficial and disruptive functions, and beneficial and disruptive microbes. Ultimately, this makes Microbiome Age fundamentally different from simply asking whether one's microbiome is "healthy." The introduction of Microbiome Age is also built on Tiny Health's belief that there is no single perfect microbiome: instead, the metric provides a new way to understand where someone's gut may be on its aging trajectory and which biological patterns are driving that trajectory. And importantly, Microbiome Age is not intended to be a fixed prediction of future health; the microbiome is dynamic and responds to diet, medications, physical activity, stress, illness, and other environmental factors. Understanding which aspects of one's microbiome may be aging faster or slower offers opportunities to learn and support resilience. Gut-Body Connections: Linking the Microbiome to the Rest of Your Body The microbiome doesn't exist in isolation: research increasingly connects the gut and virtually every system in the body, from the brain and skin to the liver and immune system [Han, 2026]. But for most people, making sense of that research means digging through an overwhelming volume of studies online. Gut-Body Connections helps solve that problem. This new section of the Tiny Health app shows users how microbiome insights connect across organ systems and health concerns like eczema, poor sleep, constipation, GLP-1 production, IBS, and more. Behind the scenes, Tiny Health's scientists review the latest high-quality research and compare it against the company's own microbiome dataset to surface the connections that are relevant and meaningful. The feature builds on Tiny Health's results experience, adding a layer of context for how those systems may relate to a person's results, and what users can do about the factors within their control. The feature is designed to help people understand these relationships; it does not diagnose, treat, cure, or predict the course of any disease. "Gut-Body Connections represents a shift from simply measuring the gut to helping people understand the gut as part of a connected biological system," said Kimberley Sukhum, PhD, Chief Science Officer at Tiny Health. "Tiny Health is taking an enormous and rapidly expanding body of microbiome research and translating it into personalized insights, grounded in both science and each individual's unique microbiome." Built On Science, Not Speculation People are increasingly turning to general-purpose AI tools for health advice, or to make sense of their gut or vaginal microbiome test results. The answers sound confident, but are often built on scattered, outdated, or low-quality research. Tiny Health takes a different approach. Its proprietary metrics and built-in AI feature, TinyAI, draw on a knowledge base vetted by the company's science team and grounded in Tiny Health's own longitudinal microbiome dataset. Tiny Health also doesn't sell supplements or take commissions on any products it recommends. "With Microbiome Age and Gut-Body Connections, we've expanded Tiny Health's vision to measure how the microbiome changes across the lifespan and its effects on various organ systems," said Cheryl Sew Hoy, Founder and CEO of Tiny Health. "Tiny Health was built on rigorous science from day one, and these features carry the same standard forward. Combined with our proprietary dataset, novel metrics, and personalized recommendations, we're building a new framework for understanding the gut as a cornerstone of longevity and full-body health." The Tiny Health team will be exhibiting at Eudemonia (Nov 5-8, 2026) at booth #717 and speaking on-site about the new features throughout the weekend. About Tiny Health Tiny Health is advancing lifelong health, from the first 1,000 days to the last, and addressing chronic disease through precision microbiome science. Founded in 2020 and built by microbiome scientists and physicians, its testing platform reveals whether your microbiome is trending toward resilience or imbalances using shotgun metagenomics (the gold standard in microbiome analysis), proprietary AI, and one of the world's largest longitudinal datasets. Tiny Health detects microbes across 120,000+ genomes down to the strain level, surfacing comprehensive insights about metabolic capacity, immune markers, pathogenic organisms, and more. Tiny Health collaborates with academic institutions and organizations like Stanford Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and partners Joi + Blokes, Resbiotic, Siphox, Nia Health, Allina Health, and more. Tiny Health's platform serves nearly 200,000 customers and more than 6,000 healthcare practitioners across independent practices, hospital systems, longevity clinics, consumer health companies, and precision medicine organizations. Its B2B platform, Powered by Tiny, grew 4x in 2025, with dozens of enterprise partners spanning the healthcare and precision health ecosystem, including Fullscript, Mayo Clinic's Executive Health and Longevity Programs, Atria Institute, Superpower, and more. References: B. Han et al., "Gut microbiota as master regulators: Mapping gut-organ axes that orchestrate systemic health," TransMed, vol. 1, no. 3, p. 100042, Dec. 2026, doi: 10.1016/j.tmed.2026.100042. Release Summary Tiny Health launches Microbiome Age and Gut-Body Connections, new features linking gut health to aging and whole-body health, at Eudēmonia Summit Nov 5-8. Recommended reading.

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MedCity News
Sep 29th, 2026
Tiny Health secures $33M to expand microbiome testing.

Tiny Health secures $33M to expand microbiome testing. Tiny Health's Series B round was led by B Capital, with participation from Spero Ventures, The Venture City, Overwater Ventures, Black Opal Ventures, Denver Ventures, Pave Health Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Gaingels and Pari Passu Ventures. Tiny Health, a microbiome intelligence platform, announced on Tuesday that it secured $33 million in Series B funding. The Austin, Texas-based company offers gut microbiome tests for adults, babies and children. These provide insights on gastrointestinal issues, inflammation, eczema and allergies. In addition, it provides a vaginal microbiome test to assess sexual and reproductive health. All of these tests cost about $249, can be taken at home and come with personalized recommendations. The Series B round was led by B Capital, with participation from Spero Ventures, The Venture City, Overwater Ventures, Black Opal Ventures, Denver Ventures, Pave Health Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Gaingels and Pari Passu Ventures. In total, Tiny Health has raised $46 million. Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction. "We believe the gut microbiome represents one of the most significant and underexplored frontiers in human health, and Tiny Health has built the platform best positioned to bring that science and the actionable health insights that follow to patients, providers, and partners at scale," said Nick Whitehead, senior principal at B Capital, in a statement. The financing will be used for clinical research and interventional studies, expanding healthcare practitioner education and advancing its AI technology. Tiny Health currently has a second randomized controlled trial underway, with its first finding that targeted microbiome interventions reduced infants' chances of developing eczema by 83%. The company is also expanding research on irritable bowel syndrome, menopause and GLP-1s. Tiny Health is also committing $5 million to launch the Microbiome Research Program. This will give researchers and clinicians access to Tiny Health's microbiome testing, data and research tools to study potential treatments and interventions. Founded in 2020, Tiny Health has served nearly 200,000 customers and more than 6,000 healthcare practitioners. The company's founder, Cheryl Sew Hoy, created Tiny Health after her first child, born by C-section, developed eczema and a food allergy. This led her to research the microbiome and she found a gap in tools for parents to understand and support their babies' gut health. presented by In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable. Sew Hoy said she ultimately hopes to make microbiome testing the standard of care, not a specialty test. Long-term, she wants to support the transition from reactive sick care to preventive care. "To get there, we need two things: scientific rigor and clinical utility, meaning clinicians and health practitioners are actually deriving value from what we build and it's changing outcomes, not just generating a report," she told MedCity News. "If we can keep both of those true as we scale, I think the gut microbiome becomes one of the foundational layers of how personalized medicine works, and Tiny Health helps set the standard for how that data gets measured and interpreted across the whole field." Other microbiome testing companies include Evvy and Viome.

GlobeNewswire
Sep 29th, 2026
Tiny Health raises $33M Series B to establish microbiome intelligence as the standard of care.

Tiny Health raises $33M Series B to establish microbiome intelligence as the standard of care. Led by B Capital, the round will accelerate Tiny Health's mission to make the gut microbiome measurable, accessible, and actionable, becoming central to precision health across the lifespan. September 29, 2026 09:00 ET | Source: Tiny Health AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Tiny Health, the microbiome intelligence platform pioneering gut and vaginal microbiome testing across the lifespan, today announced a $33 million oversubscribed Series B round led by B Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $46 million. Existing investors Spero Ventures, The Venture City, Overwater Ventures and others participated alongside other new investors including Black Opal Ventures, Denver Ventures, Pave Health Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Gaingels, and Pari Passu Ventures. In tandem with the raise, Tiny Health announced the launch of a $5 million Microbiome Research Program to accelerate microbiome research and close the gap between the science and clinical practice. The round comes as mounting evidence connects the gut microbiome to immune health, metabolism, and chronic disease. With 75% of U.S. adults and 45% of U.S. children living with at least one chronic condition (CDC 2025, JAMA 2025), the gut microbiome is emerging as a foundational piece of precision medicine and care. Unlike competitors, Tiny Health owns its full, in-house bioinformatics pipeline and is the only gut microbiome company that has published an interventional randomized controlled trial (RCT): a 2025 study in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology demonstrating that targeted microbiome interventions reduced infants' odds of developing eczema by 83%. With four published scientific papers and a second RCT underway, Tiny Health is also expanding research into conditions including IBD, menopause, GLP-1, and oncology drug response, all grounded in the world's largest longitudinal microbiome dataset. Tiny Health will use the capital to advance clinical research and interventional studies, expand its healthcare practitioner education, and scale Powered by Tiny, its B2B platform. The company is also accelerating TinyAI, the world's first AI trained on Tiny Health's proprietary dataset of nearly 200,000 microbiome profiles, to deliver personalized, science-backed guidance tied directly to a user's results. TinyAI integrates with the science, so as the dataset grows, its guidance becomes more precise, translating directly into a better patient experience and improved health outcomes. "We founded Tiny Health because the science is so impactful, the need is urgent, and no one else was building for the whole lifespan," said Cheryl Sew Hoy, CEO and Founder of Tiny Health. "What started as a solution for my own family has become the infrastructure for an entire industry. This Series B round propels microbiome science as the foundational layer for the next frontier of medicine." Announcing the Microbiome Research Program Alongside its own research, Tiny Health is committing $5 million to advance microbiome science and support researchers working to unlock the microbiome's potential to improve human health. The Microbiome Research Program will enable researchers, clinicians, and scientific partners to leverage Tiny Health's microbiome testing, data, and research capabilities to investigate important intervention strategies in microbiome health. "Tiny Health believes the next breakthroughs in microbiome science will come from bringing more researchers and institutions into the field," said Kimberley Sukhum, PhD, Chief Science Officer at Tiny Health. "This investment will help generate new evidence and foster collaborations across the scientific community, building on Tiny Health's growing body of peer-reviewed research and its commitment to advancing rigorous, accessible microbiome science." Tiny Health recently expanded the ways its data can inform precision health and has been translating its work in early-life health to the other end of the lifespan, developing new tools for longevity and healthy aging including Gut Microbiome Age, Gut Resilience, and Gut Body Connections that help people understand the gut as part of a connected biological system - and what they can do about the microbiome factors within their control. "We believe the gut microbiome represents one of the most significant and underexplored frontiers in human health, and Tiny Health has built the platform best positioned to bring that science and the actionable health insights that follow to patients, providers, and partners at scale," said Nick Whitehead, Senior Principal at B Capital, who will join the Tiny Health Board of Directors. "We are excited to partner with Cheryl and the Tiny Health team as they build a category-defining company that can help shape the future of precision medicine and care." From the First 1,000 Days to Age 100+ Founded in 2020 and launched in 2022, Tiny Health introduced the first gut microbiome test for babies, built on shotgun metagenomic sequencing, alongside gut and vaginal microbiome testing for moms. The company is grounded in the science of the first 1,000 days of life, when the gut microbiome is most malleable and its influence on lifelong immune health and chronic conditions is most profound. There is no universal "healthy" microbiome, particularly in older children and adults. Rather, functional characteristics such as diversity, resilience, and metabolic markers can be the most meaningful factors in determining microbiome risk and intervention. With significant variability in how microbiome testing is performed and interpreted industry-wide, Tiny Health is building the rigorous, validated methodology needed to make those measurements consistent, reliable, and clinically meaningful. "We are seeing unprecedented innovation at the intersection of biology, data, and AI, creating new opportunities to make healthcare more personalized and proactive. Tiny Health has created a differentiated platform that translates rigorous microbiome science into actionable insights that can help fundamentally change how people understand and improve their health across every stage of life," added Adam Seabrook, Partner at B Capital. Today, Tiny Health's platform serves nearly 200,000 customers and more than 6,000 healthcare practitioners across independent practices, hospital systems, longevity clinics, consumer health companies, and precision medicine organizations. Adult testing has now surpassed pediatric testing in volume, reflecting the company's expanding reach across the full lifespan. Tiny Health's B2B platform, Powered by Tiny, grew 4x last year, with dozens of enterprise partners spanning the healthcare and precision health ecosystem, including Fullscript, Mayo Clinic's Executive Health and Longevity Programs, Atria Institute, Superpower, and more. About Tiny Health Tiny Health is advancing lifelong health, from the first 1,000 days to the last, and addressing chronic disease through precision microbiome science. Founded in 2020 and built by microbiome scientists and physicians, its testing platform reveals whether your microbiome is trending toward resilience or imbalances using shotgun metagenomics (the gold standard in microbiome analysis), proprietary AI, and one of the world's largest longitudinal datasets. Tiny Health detects microbes across 120,000+ genomes down to the strain level, surfacing comprehensive insights about metabolic capacity, immune markers, pathogenic organisms, and more. Tiny Health collaborates with academic institutions and organizations like Stanford Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and partners Joi + Blokes, Resbiotic, Siphox, Nia Health, Allina Health, and more. Trusted by families and health practitioners alike, its research-backed gut and vaginal tests are redefining the microbiome as a cornerstone of personalized health through every life stage. Learn more at tinyhealth.com. B Capital Kate Thompson / Madeline Jones / Kate Kelley Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher [email protected] 212-355-4449 Release Summary Tiny Health raises an oversubscribed $33M Series B led by B Capital, bringing total funding to $46M, and launches a $5M microbiome research program.

Beauty Independent
Sep 29th, 2026
Tiny Health raises $33M Series B to make microbiome testing standard healthcare

Tiny Health has raised $33 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by B Capital, bringing total funding to $46 million. The company provides at-home gut and vaginal microbiome tests for consumers and businesses. Revenue has crossed eight figures and is at least doubling annually, split equally between direct-to-consumer sales and its business-to-business arm, Powered by Tiny. The company has served nearly 200,000 customers and works with over 6,000 practitioners and 45 enterprise partners including Mayo Clinic. Tiny Health is allocating $5 million towards microbiome research, including studies on infant eczema prevention and conditions like IBD and menopause. Individual tests cost $249, whilst annual memberships are priced at $399. The company has grown from 21 to 41 employees around the funding round.

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