The wild story of how gut health AI toilet startup Throne raised $4M led by Moxxie 

How to lower the seed slot of the SMART toilet starting throne, so much around a seed, almost formed by Fortuna, Roman Providence Todezi’s hand.

Couch A Austin-based company that works on the EU-employed toilet device for consumers. Gout uses a computer vision to track the health status (dishes PLUS Cameras pointing to the EU program). The founder of Moxxie viruses is a bunch of $ 4 million in seed financing, a bunch of $ 4 million, and several famous angels, Rupa Armstrong, Rupawanathan and Tara’s founder Katein Mares (the manufacturer of brands such as the Teapot and fire), the beginning says.

The throne is not the toilet, a device installed up to one’s container. The device analyzes indicators of certain chronic conditions, as well as a hydration and urological function. The program added privacy control as an anonymizing the images sent to researchers.

The device is currently in the prototype form of employee, co-founder CEO Scott Hickle Techcrunch with the scheduled start date of January 2026.

In addition to seed finance, the throne also announced John Capodilupo as his chief crop officer. Kapodilupo, co-founder and koop smartwatch device is known as the former CTO.

Completely hickle, mechanical engineers and couch, CTO Tim Bloomberg, a complete assembled software engineer, intelligent toilet builders, started when playing poker with friends in Austin in 2021.

Players, they wanted to do but did not want to coordinate, began to rifhafter. “And everyone’s master vice industry [ideas]Open sex, medications and rock and roll. Tim said, ‘Smart toilets’. I was like, ‘It’s hilarious. It is clear that you call the company’s throne, ‘”Hickle was reminded.

When the nurse worked as a result of Hickle and Bloomberg work, the nurse is running up to 2023.

He financed a little for this and invited investors who said they need a new idea or return the money. One of the investors is blue, “You guys think about smart restrooms? We have known: We called this company!” Said.

They took it as a sign. The couple started research and appealed to a doctor specializing in Hickle’s mother and gerontology. He asked if there were any medical benefits in the “view of people’s waste”, and he began to regulate the photos of what he loved to send it with some disgusting stories.

Short answer: Yes. Waste can be analyzed for health-related information. It can be useful to monitor the conditions that can be seen as a nervous intestinal syndrome (IBR), ulcerative colitis, chronic kidney disease, enlarged prostate, an enlarged prostate, or can be seen or watching as menstrual blood.

Like the son of two doctors (Hickle’s father in inventing medical devices), a chronic situation may be possible to dispose of a chronic situation or estimates that a deadly cancer is “really motivated.” Hickle.

Everyone did not share this enthusiasm. The co-founders knew that there were no experiments in the development of the product. One of the current investors opposed to this idea, asked him back. “It was cruel,” Hickle was not only for the loss of confidence, not only for the loss of capital.

Again, after giving back this money, they were not hunting for this, but they fled to more people who liked the idea.

Lance Armstrong standing at the bathroom door

Their Austin’s contacts caused an introduction to the business manager of Lance Armstrong, who set them directly to Sarmstrong. The former bike racer had a popular testicular cancer.

After built a prototype, this was waiting for Hickle’s description, which took place in the moment of the Racer’s bathroom door, waiting for his sentence. Armstrong wrote a check.

Each login does not be carried out, but many more applications, including an angel voucher, and took an angel check to Capodilupo. It was open on Capodilupo suffering from ulcerative colitis And the Crohn and the Colitis Foundation was in the Board of Trustees. Capodilupo had the device production experience. To convince the capodilupon not only to invest, the founders drew the months, but join as a founder.

The application of the well-known seed investor Jacobs Stantham’s application was also Serendipitous. Hickle has been a friend with Viswanathan, Viswanathan since his high school and organized an application.

More synchronism confirms the University of Washington and Chicago University, and the product is working as the software is advertised. These partnership is the key to possible success. Washington’s Washington University organization, a my friend was sitting on a plane next to a casual researcher and talked about the throne, and then touched him.

Hickle’s friend received the University of Chicago when he introduced him to his gastroenterologist uncle. Uncle was one of the most primitive researchers in the world’s most important thing, sitting on the board of Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and Capodilupon.

One of the one after the introduction of one another, the founders are better to be “lucky to be lucky, and we are always” always “.

Other investors in seeds include landscaping, long travel ventues, v1.vc, night capital, retron VC and Miyelin Ventues.

Correction: This story has been updated to correct an offspring of cancer Armstrong.