Othman Laraki

Color's Othman Laraki thinks genetic testing will have its biggest impact on human health when we forget it's even there.

After gathering multiple emergency authorizations from the FDA last year for COVID-19 testing and self-sampling kits, Color has now raised $167 million in venture capital financing to help scale up its work to larger populations--and expand into the next phase of the pandemic, by supporting digital vaccine logistics.

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 billion post-money, the company announced today. This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has left no industry untouched, but the healthcare industry is arguably the one that stands to be transformed the most by the ongoing pandemic. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, get the perspectives of two founders who've created entirely new healthcare modals with their respective startups on how their companies have adapted to a [...]