Eternal Raises $13M for High-Performance Healthcare

Eternal wants to help athletes go the distance.

What’s happening: Emerging from stealth, the athlete-focused healthcare platform secured $13.25M in a seed round led by Lightspeed Ventures Partners, Courtside Ventures, Treble Capital, and Next Ventures.

Launching clinics in San Francisco and NYC this spring, Eternal will tap diagnostics and longevity medicine to help runners, cyclists, and triathletes perform for life.

Athlete HQ. Founded by Alex Mather, co-founder of The Athletic and ex-product at Strava, Eternal merges longevity and sports science with traditional healthcare.

“Fitter folks in their 30s and beyond are inundated with tactics to help them look, feel, perform, and age better, yet so few have a comprehensive strategy to truly sustain their health,” says Mather.

Utilizing bloodwork, DEXA scans, and in-house performance testing, its team of specialists create high-performance care plans for pro and lifestyle athletes, adaptable for injury, hormonal shifts, and chronic conditions.

Coming with credentials, its advisors include physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims, Golden State Warriors director of sports medicine Rick Celebrini, and triathlete Andrew Talansky, among others.

About time. From digital concierges like Superpower and Function to clinics by Humanaut and Dr. Peter Attia’s Biograph, longevity platforms are supplanting the family doc.

Seeing athletes as special cases, tools like coaching app Coya (fka OWN IT) and AI nutrition platform Hexis are scaling up.

Takeaway: Equipping athletes with a master plan, Eternal aims to prolong careers—and overall health—indefinitely.