Wellness Icon Deepak Chopra Teams up with Psychedelics Entrepreneur Christian Angermayer

The company has united a pioneering group of disruptors, entrepreneurs, and healers to fuel its aims, with global holistic medicine leader Deepak Chopra becoming scientific advisor alongside backers including renowned investor and psychedelics entrepreneur Christian Angermayer through his Apeiron Investment Group. They will be joined by newly appointed board members, Social Chain and Thirdweb founder Steven Bartlett, also known from Dragons Den in the UK, and Chopra Foundation CEO Poonacha Machaiah.

The venture stems from a shared belief that healthcare has never been in greater need of evolution. Budgets are unsustainable, with the US spending $4Tn in 2020, almost 20% of GDP (up from 11% in 1990). Meanwhile, healthy life expectancy has actually decreased, in part due to growth in mental illness.

“The world is ready for substantial change. The system today is focused on treating sickness, yet 95% of disease is preventable and caused by lifestyle factors,” says Deepak Chopra, M.D., The Healing Company’s Chief Scientific Advisor, and Founder of The Chopra Foundation. “We need true healing, a return to wholeness. An integrated approach embracing both the conventional and alternative has never been more needed.”

“The appetite for new solutions and fresh thinking is immense, with the global wellness market projected to reach $7Tn by 2025 and growth accelerating due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” says CEO Simon Belsham. “We want to use this momentum and become the driving force in scaling and consolidating this market segment.”

Over the next 36 months the company plans to buy and scale more than 15 direct-to-consumer brands, starting in the holistic medicine and supplements space. “Our aim is to help incredible healing brands, products, and leaders have more impact on the world. The power of what we can achieve as a community—a movement—working to evolve health and healing is immense” says co-founder Anabel Oelmann.

To power its aims, the company announces initial funding of $85M, including $10M in closed seed equity and a $75M credit facility expected from i80 Group, a leading provider of capital to breakthrough technology companies. Other investors include Social Chain Founders Steven Bartlett and Wanja S. Oberhof and Avant Global Founder Demetri Argyropoulos.

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