Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin)

Co-Founder and CEO, Function Health · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonathan Swerdlin is the co-founder and CEO of Function Health, a health technology platform offering comprehensive biomarker lab testing and preventative insights. Previously, he founded Ocho and Portal, co-founded Wisdom VC, and has invested in over 100 early-stage technology companies.

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Trollin: Health AI platforms will be measured by hourly active use

“We think that it's not going to be about daily active use. It's going to measure an hourly active use.”

Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 12:31 Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered

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Trollin: Calling applications 'AI doctors' is like saying 'motorized horses'

“To look backwards, even call an AI doctor or an AI therapist. It's like saying, like, it's the motorized horse.”

Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 8:04 Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered

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Trollin: Function Health projects reaching nearly 1 billion lab tests by 2026

“We're at a place where this time next year, we'll probably, we'll have, if we do what we're supposed to do, we'll have done nearly a billion lab tests.”

Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 10:14 Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered

Insight

Trollin: Personal health data is the prerequisite context for daily AI

“We think that most AI experiences are being built around a personal context that's limited to digital activity. But we believe that one's personal health is actually the prerequisite content for AI that people will use every day and all day.”

Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 12:40 Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered

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Trollin: Replicating Function Health's MVP previously cost tens of thousands of dollars

“I had to spend tens of thousands of dollars. And tens of hours or over a hundred hours to get on top of my health, to get to equivalent and get near parity with where function was at an MVP level.”

Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 2:56 Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered

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Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered	Jul 31, 2025	6m

Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin)

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