❯ Smart-Toilet Company Throne Science Raises $10 Million, Former Whoop Co-Founder Involved

SMALL MONEYAccording to a July 28 announcement, health-hardware company Throne Science closed a $10 million Series A, led by Will Ventures, with participation from Emerson Collective, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and others, bringing cumulative funding to nearly $18 million. The product is a sensor that mounts on a standard toilet and uses computer vision to analyze elimination data, giving users long-term insight into digestive health, hydration status, and urinary function. The company was founded in 2023.

THREE-YEAR CLIMBTimeline: founded in 2023, raised a $4 million seed round in May 2025, and closed its Series A in July 2026 — not a fast cadence, because the first hurdle was not technology but acceptance. The three founders are CEO Scott Hickle, CTO Tim Blumberg, and John Capodilupo, former CTO of fitness-band company Whoop. Capodilupo himself has ulcerative colitis — which explains why this company exists. In the 14 months between seed and Series A, the more critical shift was in the industry itself: sleep, heart rate, and blood oxygen have been fully mined, so growth has to chase new data sources.

WHY THIS ONEThrone occupies a spot no wearable can reach: bands can’t measure the gut. And gut health is precisely the slice of the consumer-health market where demand is real but objective data is almost zero — right now, the best users can do is fill out questionnaires themselves. Throne uses visual recognition to turn that into continuous readings generated automatically every day, requiring no user effort, and an AI coach then correlates diet, daily routine, and gut status. Capodilupo’s value goes beyond endorsement: Whoop’s core capability was never the sensor — it was turning continuous readings into recommendations users actually want to see every day, and that methodology carries over directly. The hardware mounts on a standard toilet, no bathroom remodeling required, and the customer-acquisition barrier is kept to a minimum.

NEXT DATAAt $10 million, this is the smallest deal in this batch, but it marks a direction: competition in consumer health hardware has shifted from measuring accurately to measuring what hasn’t been measured. Once wrist metrics are commoditized, the first company to capture a brand-new class of continuous data gets the first shot at the training material for the next generation of health models. The real test for these companies isn’t fundraising — it’s retention. Only if users keep the device on their toilet long-term does the data asset become real. If active usage holds up a year from now, the first thing to be revalued will be non-wearable health monitoring as a whole.

▪ SIGNALWearables have exhausted the wrist; the next round of competition is about who finds the class of continuous data that hasn’t been captured yet.