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And now for this week’s prescription:

On this week’s dose, we start (1:59) with Alma, an AI-powered nutrition app using natural language processing to simplify meal tracking, fresh off a $2.9M pre-seed round led by Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund in partnership with Anthropic. Next (14:27), we pop open a deep dive on Olipop, the gut-friendly soda brand shaking up the functional beverage space, following a $50M Series C that brings its valuation to a bubbly $1.85 billion. Finally (24:01), we slice into Via 313 Pizzeria, the fast-growing Detroit-style pizza chain that just secured $32.5M in growth capital to fuel expansion across the U.S.Sources:

https://www.alma.food/ 

https://menlovc.com/anthology-fund/ 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/former-whoop-execs-new-app-alma-uses-ai-for-all-things-nutrition/ 

https://drinkolipop.com/

https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/4771906/functional-beverage-market-share-analysis?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/27693-olipop-valued-at-185-billion-following-latest-funding-round

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/olipop-valued-1-85bn-following-125054362.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-12/olipop-valued-at-1-85-billion-in-50-million-funding-round?embedded-checkout=true

https://www.via313.com/

https://www.utahbusiness.com/press-releases/2025/02/05/via-313-raises-32-million-double-footprint/

https://www.nrn.com/restaurant-finance/via-313-pizzeria-raises-32-5m-in-growth-capital

Music Credit: Chapter One by Cole Bauer and Dean Keeton

https://www.instagram.com/deankeeton/?hl=en

Episode ID: 1000703864898

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Release Date: 17/04/2025, 11:18:00