Everlab raises AU$65m to turn primary care from treatment to prevention


The Melbourne healthtech’s oversubscribed Series A, led by Airtree, funds a move into the UK and a pitch to coordinate a patient’s health data over a lifetime rather than a single appointment.


Most healthcare systems are built to wait. They are organised around the moment something goes wrong, the appointment booked because a symptom appeared, with the records, the specialists and the follow-up scattered across providers that rarely talk to one another.

Everlab, a Melbourne healthtech founded in 2023, has raised AU$65m to bet on the opposite premise: that the more valuable system is the one that notices the problem before the patient does.

The Series A, which the company says was oversubscribed, was led by Australia’s Airtree Ventures, with participation from Europe’s Plural and existing backers Left Lane Capital in the US and b2venture in Europe.

The 💜 of EU tech

The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol’ founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!

Among the angel investors is the Australian Test cricket captain Pat Cummins. It is a substantial step up from the company’s US$10m seed round, raised less than a year earlier in July 2025.

What the round funds is a shift from a collection of services to a single platform. Everlab’s app pulls diagnostics, doctors, specialists, prescriptions and what it calls continuous AI care into one place, with the aim of giving a patient a longitudinal view of their health, the full record over time rather than a series of disconnected snapshots.

The company says it integrates with more than 1,850 health-provider locations, over 180 active clinicians and more than 30 wearable devices, and processes upwards of 200,000 health reports a month.

“The existing system is fragmented, handing patients between providers and hoping the information follows,” said Marc Hermann, Everlab’s co-founder and chief executive. “We built Everlab to hold the full picture, surface health blind spots and coordinate what needs to happen next.”

The framing is one we have seen recur across the sector, from Perplexity Health to the medical wearables now feeding clinical platforms: the value is moving from the device or the appointment to the layer that interprets and connects them.

The numbers Everlab attaches to its case are about engagement and detection. The company says it has completed more than 40,000 consultations for 20,000 patients, including corporate clients such as Boston Consulting Group, BHP and Bain & Company, and has processed more than 21 million biomarker results.

More than a quarter of members, it says, have had findings flagged that the existing system had not picked up, the figure the whole preventative pitch rests on.

For Carina Namih, a partner at Plural, that distinction is the investment thesis. “Every company that has tried to own the patient journey has ended up either selling doctor time by the minute or reselling lab tests with thin margins,” she said.

“Everlab is building the layer above both.” John Henderson of Airtree was blunter about the ambition, calling Everlab “a generational health business” already leading in Australia and positioned, in his view, to do the same internationally.

That international move starts with the United Kingdom, Everlab’s first market beyond Australia and its entry point into what the company describes as a $10 trillion global consumer-healthcare market. The funding, it says, will go towards strengthening its clinical and technology infrastructure and accelerating the rollout.

The harder test is the one the company has set itself: proving that prevention, the thing every health system says it wants and few are built to deliver, can be run at scale and still pay for itself.



Source link

Leave a Reply

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Get our latest articles delivered straight to your inbox. No spam, we promise.

Recent Reviews


When Encanto was released, it was something of a cultural phenomenon. You couldn’t escape the song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” and the soundtrack went to the top of the charts. If you loved Encanto, there’s another overlooked Lin-Manuel Miranda animated musical on Netflix that’s better in many ways.

Vivo is another Lin-Manuel Miranda musical

He’s also the voice of the lead character

Vivo the kinkajou from the movie Vivo. Credit: Sony Pictures Animation

Vivo is a 2021 animated musical comedy from Sony Pictures Animation, the same studio behind smash-hit movies such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and KPop Demon Hunters. Directed by Kirk DeMicco, who co-wrote it with Quiara Alegría Hudes, it features original songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical genius who shot to superstardom on the back of Hamilton.

Miranda also plays the title character of Vivo, a kinkajou (a small, nocturnal mammal) whose days are spent earning money by playing music in the plaza with his aging owner, Andrés. When Andrés dies, Vivo makes it his mission to deliver a song that Andrés wrote to his old friend Marta Sandoval, a famous singer played by Gloria Estefan. The song reveals Andrés’ true feelings for Marta, but he could never bring himself to give it to her.

Vivo is helped on his quest by Gabi, a young misfit and the daughter of Andrés’ niece. The movie follows their journey through the Florida Everglades to reach Miami and deliver the song.

Why Vivo flew under the radar

The big theatrical release never happened

Gabi and Vivo on a raft in the movie Vivo. Credit: Sony Pictures Animation

Vivo is an animated musical from a major animation studio, with a cast of big names including Miranda, Gloria Estefan, and Zoe Saldaña. It features music from one of the most in-demand songwriters in the world, who also stars in it. Why isn’t it more well-known?

Perhaps the biggest reason is that Vivo never got its expected theatrical release. After the global pandemic disrupted Sony’s plans for a wide theatrical release, the rights were sold to Netflix. Instead of a major theatrical run, it joined the huge catalog of Netflix, where shows and movies all too often get buried by the churn of new content.

It meant that, unlike Encanto, Vivo never really got the chance to enter the zeitgeist or become a TikTok staple. Its fairly quiet release on a streaming service meant that it never got the attention that it deserved.

Subscription with ads

Yes, $8/month

Simultaneous streams

Two or four

Stream licensed and original programming with a monthly Netflix subscription.


Vivo’s music hits different

Gloria Estefan still has it

When Encanto came out, people raved about the music. The song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” went viral, with an endless stream of TikTok videos. To my mind, however, the music in Vivo is just so much better.

I never really got the hype about “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” It’s not bad, but it’s not even the best song in Encanto. While the music in Encanto is good, none of the songs really stand out as being classics. I listen to a lot of Disney movie soundtracks with my kids, and Encanto very rarely makes the playlist, while Moana, which also includes songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, gets played far more often.​​​​​​​


The Pixar Logo featured before their movies


Pixar’s best movie isn’t one of the old classics, it’s this blockbuster from 2017

I’m sorry, Toy Story, but a new winner has entered the chat

What gets played a lot is the Vivo soundtrack because it’s genuinely brilliant. There’s something for everyone, too; there are four of us in the family, and each of us has a different favorite song from the soundtrack. That’s how good it is.

“One of a Kind” is the song that introduces us to Vivo and Andrés, and it’s a great mix of classic Cuban mambo and clave rhythms combined with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s trademark hip-hop flow. “My Own Drum” is an absolute banger sung by Gabi featuring possibly the greatest recorder solo of all time. My personal favorite, “Keep The Beat,” is a gorgeous song about keeping going when things start to change.

The most beautiful song in the movie is “Inside Your Heart,” performed by the legendary Gloria Estefan. This is the song that Andrés wrote for Marta, expressing his feelings for her. It’s a stunning song, and Estefan’s voice still sounds incredible. For me, it lands far harder than anything in Encanto.

What Vivo offers that Encanto doesn’t

There’s more than just the awesome music

2D animation of a young Andres and Marta dancing from the movie Vivo. Credit: Sony Pictures Animation

While both movies have music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, only one of them features the songwriter in the main cast. Some of the fast-paced rhymes in Vivo are so distinctive that you can’t imagine anyone else doing them justice, as Dwayne Johnson proved in Moana.

Vivo also has a more dynamic story, with the action involving a race from Cuba to Miami rather than being set entirely within one location like Encanto. It also includes some interesting stylized 2D sequences that mix up the look of the movie. The emotional stakes are also much higher in Vivo, with a story that touches on death, regret, lost love, and finding your place in the world.

That’s not to say it’s a perfect movie. The plot does dip a little in the middle, but the stunning music and bittersweet ending make up for the flaws.


A woman watching Netflix with two kids, a 'Kids' icon in the background, and the Netflix logo.


My Kids Love These 10 Netflix Shows—And Shockingly, So Do I

Are you a parent tired of watching awful kids’ shows? Give yourself a break with these Netflix series that will entertain both you and your children.


Check out Vivo if you haven’t already

If you loved Encanto and you haven’t watched Vivo, you should definitely check it out. It’s a movie that really deserves more attention than it gets. I guarantee it will be the best kinkajou-based animated musical you’ll ever see.



Source link