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August 30, 2019

Theranos failed hard, but did it also prove the market?

Meet the founders building blood test startups in a post-Theranos world. "Theranos brought medical diagnostics to the forefront."


Kitty Knowles

6 min read

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Credit: "Fortune Most Powerful Women 2014" by Fortune Most Powerful Women is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

When Theranos, the disgraced unicorn, fell the industry was shaken. 

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Luc Gervais, 1Drop Diagnostics founder.
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Oliver Balcells RheoDX founder
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