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Evidation Health

San Francisco, US · Founded 2012 · Delaware corporation · 95 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors

Evidation collects and analyzes real-world health data from millions of community members to enable clinical research and health programs across various medical conditions. The platform partners with healthcare organizations, biomedical firms, government agencies, and nonprofits to drive discoveries and inform healthcare decision-making using everyday health data.

Also known as Evidation

Founders & leadership

Evidation Health was founded in 2012 by Christine Lemke.

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Christine LemkeFounder
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Deborah KilpatrickExecutive
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Leslie Oley Wilberforcein

Board

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David FleshmanBoard director
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Rowan ChapmanBoard director

Investors · 11

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$27.8M disclosed across 3 rounds · 2014–2017

$10MraisedApr 2017 · 3 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Lisa SuennenDirector
  • Deborah KilpatrickExecutive Officer, Director
  • Rowan ChapmanDirector
  • Raj GangulyDirector
  • Christine LemkeExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$10M
Amount sold
$10M
First sale
Apr 2017
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2012
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$11.6MraisedJun 2016 · 3 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Deborah KilpatrickExecutive Officer, Director
  • Raj GangulyDirector
  • Rowan ChapmanDirector
  • Christine LemkeExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$15.5M
Amount sold
$11.6M
First sale
May 2016
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2012
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$6.2MraisedJan 2015 · 6 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • David FleshmanDirector
  • Rowan ChapmanDirector
  • Christine LemkeExecutive Officer, Director
  • Deborah KilpatrickExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$6.2M
Amount sold
$6.2M
First sale
Dec 2014
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2012
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Evidation operates a real-world data platform that connects directly with individuals to collect continuous, longitudinal, patient-level health data. The data it assembles spans clinical data (EHR and claims), demographic and social context, condition and treatment experience, patient-reported outcomes, molecular data from biosamples, and digital measures from wearables. The company positions this combination as providing temporal depth beyond conventional real-world data, which it characterizes as largely reflecting discrete clinical encounters rather than how patients manage conditions and experience treatment between visits.

On the life sciences side, Evidation supports research, discovery and early development; evidence generation and medical value; and commercial planning and market strategy. It maintains more than 20 condition-specific data collection cohorts, with named focus areas in cardiometabolic health (including weight journeys and GLP-1 use), autoimmune disease (flares, symptom burden, disease progression) and dermatology (symptoms, treatment, care pathways and outcomes).

On the individual side, Evidation runs a consumer app through which people choose to share health data with researchers, receive personalized insights and earn rewards, retaining control over what is shared, with whom and for how long. The company describes its foundation as privacy-first and consent-based.

Business model

Evidation operates a two-sided model: it recruits and engages individuals through its app, offering personalized insights and monetary rewards in what it describes as a consented mutual value exchange, and provides the resulting longitudinal, multimodal real-world data and insights to life sciences organizations for research, evidence generation and commercial decision-making.

Traction

The company reports 5 million individuals participating in its community across 97% of U.S. ZIP codes, more than 1 million people helped to participate in research, over 20 condition-specific cohorts, 140+ real-world studies supported on its platform, 100+ peer-reviewed publications led or supported, partnerships with 90% of the top biopharma companies, and millions of dollars paid out in participant rewards.

Latest developments

Recent activity includes the appointment of Leslie Oley Wilberforce as CEO and Dr. Ghazanfar Khan as Chief Medical Officer; the launch of an AI-enabled temporal proteomics platform for autoimmune research; the launch of an interactive dermatology cohort; and the publication of real-world GLP-1 insights drawn from cardiometabolic and weight-management cohorts of 60,000 to 165,000 individuals.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Evidation presents itself as a supplier of direct-to-participant, longitudinal real-world data that complements encounter-based clinical datasets, citing partnerships with 90% of the largest biopharma companies and a platform record of 140+ studies and 100+ publications since 2012.

Technology

A direct-to-participant data collection platform integrating wearable-derived digital measures, patient-reported outcomes, clinical data from EHR and claims, and molecular data from biosamples into longitudinal patient-level datasets used for insight generation, biomarker discovery, treatment-response modeling and AI/foundation model development. In 2025 the company added an AI-enabled temporal proteomics data collection platform aimed at autoimmune research.

Go-to-market

Life sciences and biopharma organizations, spanning research and early development, medical/evidence-generation and commercial functions; on the participant side, individuals in the United States who enroll via the Evidation app.

Geography

United States-focused participant community, with coverage reported across 97% of U.S. ZIP codes.

History

Evidation states it has used direct, ongoing connections with individuals to generate multimodal real-world data since 2012. More recently it has expanded into condition-specific longitudinal cohorts, molecular/proteomic data collection and AI-oriented dataset development, alongside a leadership transition to CEO Leslie Oley Wilberforce.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Community participantsJan 20255,000,000 individuals
Condition-specific data collection cohortsJan 202520 cohorts
HeadcountAug 202695
Individuals in cardiometabolic health and weight management cohortJan 2025160,000 individuals
Peer-reviewed publications led or supportedJan 2025100 publications
People helped to participate in researchJan 20251,000,000 individuals
Real-world studies supported on platformJan 2025140 studies
Share of top biopharma companies partnered with EvidationJan 202590%
Surveyed individuals actively trying to lose weight who had ever used a GLP-1Jan 202515%
Surveyed individuals actively trying to lose weight who had ever used prescriptiJan 202524%
U.S. ZIP code coverageJan 202597%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
Dr. Ghazanfar Khan appointed Chief Medical Officer

Evidation appointed Dr. Ghazanfar Khan as Chief Medical Officer, responsible for clinical strategy for direct-to-participant multimodal data collection supporting AI-powered discovery and evidence generation.

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Jan 2025
Leslie Oley Wilberforce appointed CEO

Evidation appointed Leslie Oley Wilberforce as Chief Executive Officer to lead the company's next phase of growth in interactive real-world data and health research.

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Jan 2025
Launch of interactive dermatology cohort

Evidation launched an interactive dermatology cohort designed to address gaps in understanding treatment journeys across the continuum of care, and shared preliminary real-world insights.

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Jan 2025
Launch of temporal proteomics platform for autoimmune research

Evidation launched an AI-enabled data collection platform for temporal proteomics intended to build multimodal datasets for biomarker discovery, treatment-response modeling and immune-system foundation models.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
Evidation HealthDelaware

In the news

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Evidation Health do?
Evidation collects continuous, multimodal real-world health data directly from individuals to support life sciences research.
Who founded Evidation Health?
Evidation Health was founded by Christine Lemke in 2012.
Who are Evidation Health's investors?
Evidation Health's investors include Asset Management Company, B Capital Group, B4 Capital, Cross Creek Advisors, Fresco Capital, G Squared, McKesson Ventures, OMERS Private Equity Inc. and 3 more.
How much funding has Evidation Health raised?
Evidation Health has disclosed $27.8M raised across 3 rounds.
Where is Evidation Health headquartered?
Evidation Health is headquartered in San Francisco, US.