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Modern Age is a technology company.
Modern Age was a health and wellness company operating clinics focused on longevity, providing individuals with proactive, evidence-based solutions to slow the aging process. It offered comprehensive programs and treatments designed to improve healthspan and extend healthy life expectancy, emphasizing a holistic approach to personal age management.
The company was co-founded by Melissa Eamer. Modern Age emerged from the insight that a substantial market existed for accessible, medically-guided interventions aimed at proactive aging and optimizing long-term well-being, moving beyond traditional reactive healthcare. Eamer spearheaded the development of its platform for personalized longevity care.
Modern Age served individuals committed to taking control of their aging journey and enhancing vitality. Its vision was to significantly increase the world's healthy life expectancy by making advanced longevity care broadly available. However, the company ceased operations in March 2024, reportedly due to an inability to secure adequate additional funding.
Modern Age has raised $33.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Modern Age has raised $33.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Modern Age has raised $33.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Modern Age's investors include Oak HC/FT, Amity Ventures, Juxtapose Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Optum Ventures, Y Combinator, Google Ventures, Juxtapose.
Modern Age has raised $33.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $27.0M Series A in October 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2021 | $27M Series A | OAK HC/FT | Amity Ventures, Juxtapose Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Optum Ventures, Y Combinator, GV | Announced |
| Jul 28, 2021 | $6M Seed | Juxtapose | — | Announced |
No specific technology company named Modern Age appears in current industry listings, reports, or analyses of top tech firms.[1][6] The term "Modern Age" more commonly refers to the Information Age or Digital Age, a historical period marked by the rapid expansion of information technology, the Internet, and personal computing, driven by innovations from companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon.[4][2]
This era began with foundational developments like ARPANET in 1969 and the World Wide Web in 1991, evolving into a landscape dominated by digital platforms that control vast market shares—such as Apple's 55% of U.S. smartphone sales, Microsoft's 70% of global PC operating systems, Alphabet's 92% of search queries, and Amazon's 39% of U.S. e-commerce.[2] It serves billions by enabling instant information access, communication, e-commerce, and entertainment, solving problems of scale, speed, and connectivity while facing challenges like privacy and misinformation.[4][3]
The Modern Age (Information/Digital Age) traces its roots to mid-20th-century computing breakthroughs. ARPANET, launched in 1969, laid the groundwork for the Internet as a network of interconnected computers.[4] The pivotal shift came in 1991 with Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web, transforming the Internet into an accessible information system.[2][4]
Momentum built in the 1980s-1990s through personal computers from Microsoft and Apple, which popularized user-friendly interfaces and brought computing to households—by the 1990s, average American families commonly owned PCs.[4] Key players like IBM, Oracle, and later Google emerged, fueling convergence of hardware, software, and telecom amid brisk R&D investment and a skilled engineering workforce.[3]
The Modern Age stands out through these defining traits:
The Modern Age rides the wave of digital transformation, where Internet proliferation and computing power created a "digital Gilded Age" of dominant platforms reshaping economies.[2] Timing was critical: post-Web innovations aligned with globalization, enabling e-commerce (Amazon's 4.75B annual U.S. packages) and search monopolies.[2]
Market forces like emerging markets' growth, cloud computing, mobile devices, and social media favor it, with constant evolution via M&A and disruptive tech.[3] It influences ecosystems by spurring competition across sectors (e.g., tech entering consumer electronics) and setting benchmarks for efficiency, though it prompts regulatory rebalancing.[2][3]
Agentic AI, omni computing, robotics, and converging tech like AI with spatial intelligence will propel the Modern Age into embodied, autonomous systems—e.g., Amazon's million-robot warehouses boosting efficiency 10% or BMW's self-driving factory cars.[5][7][8] Trends like edge computing, advanced materials, and quantum tech promise scale in data centers alongside specialized edge devices.[5][7]
Influence will evolve toward industrial metaverses, materials informatics for faster R&D, and resilient systems, accelerating from experimentation to impact amid power-hungry infrastructure demands.[5][7][8] This builds on the Digital Age's foundation, potentially ushering a "new age of technology" golden era for innovation.[10]