Calibre, a healthtech startup, has raised £2.4 million in a pre-seed round led by Amino Collective, with participation from Daybreak Ventures, Cocoa Ventures, Timo Boldt and Maximilian Tayenthal. It provides a proactive health membership that combines clinical expertise, diagnostics and causal AI to help people understand what is driving their health and how to change it.
The platform addresses the challenge that many people struggle to understand what their body actually needs, despite increasing focus on health. Calibre connects medical history, daily behaviours and environmental context with diagnostic testing to identify underlying health drivers. By combining a clinician-led approach with causal AI, Calibre delivers a continuously evolving health assessment and personalised plan to improve daily energy and address long-term health risks, removing the need for guesswork.
People in the UK now spend around 25% of their lives in poor health, while 74% of UK adults believe establishing good health habits is key to preventing future illness, yet 37% find it difficult to know what their body needs. At the same time, 230 million people ask health-related questions on ChatGPT each week, highlighting growing reliance on AI tools that do not provide full clinical insight.
Calibre was co-founded by Alexander Weber, who previously served as Chief Growth Officer at N26; Ben Levy, who has built and scaled healthtech companies including Elvie and Manual; and Dr Reinhold Innerhofer, a medical doctor and sports scientist who has worked with Olympic medallists and world champions. Clinical care is currently delivered by partner DocTap, a CQC-registered provider, and Calibre has submitted its own CQC application.
Over the last years, we have been witnessing a generational shift in how people think about health - from health being the absence of sickness to it being the foundation to live life fully. Left alone by the system, people are now in the era of health guesswork. Calibre is what comes next: a proactive health partner for life that deeply understands your full picture, tells you what's actually driving your health, and guides you as your health evolves. Our vision is a world where everyone has the health to realise their potential.
Consumer health has been full of tools that track everything and change nothing. Calibre is changing health outcomes by understanding what's actually driving them, and helping you to take action.
I built Gousto on the belief that food is medicine. But food is only a part of the picture, and the UK's health crisis makes that clear as people are spending decades of their lives in poor health. What's missing is the full picture and the personalised insight to act on it. That’s where Calibre comes in.
