By Editorial Team
Throne ScienceIndependently confirmed
Throne Science is a startup selling an AI-powered toilet camera.
Participating investors: Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Emerson Collective, Workshop
The round
Throne Science, a digital health startup specializing in an AI-powered toilet camera, has secured $10 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Will Ventures. Additional investment came from Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Emerson Collective, and Workshop. This financing brings Throne Science’s total funding to nearly $18 million since its establishment in 2023.
What Throne Science does
Throne Science develops and sells an AI-powered camera designed to attach to a toilet, tracking gut health, hydration, and urinary function. The device utilizes computer vision models to analyze waste characteristics, converting them into health metrics. These metrics are then processed by a second AI layer to provide personalized insights. The company also offers a beta version of its Gut Health AI coach, which employs large language models to engage users in conversational interviews following episodes of digestive discomfort. This coach aims to connect dietary habits, lifestyle factors, and sleep patterns with gut health observations, offering personalized feedback akin to a dietitian or nutritionist.
Founded in 2023, Throne Science was co-founded by CEO Scott Hickle, CTO Tim Blumberg, and Chief Product Officer John Capodilupo, a former co-founder and CTO of Whoop, who has a personal connection to the company’s mission due to his ulcerative colitis. The company’s device, launched to consumers in March, clips discreetly under the toilet seat and uses Bluetooth to identify individual household members, providing a “fresh report card with every flush.”
Throne Science currently sells directly to consumers but is also exploring partnerships with clinicians, particularly functional-medicine practitioners. A potential future business avenue includes academic and pharmaceutical research, where the passive data collection system could offer more consistent and objective data for digestive health studies compared to self-reported methods. The company has presented an academic abstract demonstrating its visual AI’s accuracy in assessing stool form, comparable to board-certified gastroenterologists. Validation studies are also underway with researchers at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago. Recent additions to the team include gastroenterologists and colorectal-cancer experts Dr. Fola May and Dr. Aasma Shaukat, serving as medical advisers.
Why it matters
Throne Science operates in a health category largely overlooked by the mainstream wearables market, which has focused on metrics like sleep, cardio, and metabolic health. With over six in ten Americans experiencing digestive symptoms weekly and a significant portion facing a lifetime risk of lower gastrointestinal or urinary tract cancer, the company aims to address a substantial unmet need for at-home monitoring. Colorectal cancer, in particular, is a growing concern, now being the leading cause of cancer death among U.S. adults under 50. Throne Science’s long-term vision is to develop its system into a “smoke detector for colon cancer,” capable of identifying early warning signs of colorectal, bladder, and kidney cancers. This round underscores investor confidence in the potential of AI and passive monitoring technologies to revolutionize personal health tracking and early disease detection, particularly in areas where traditional methods are limited.