At 24, Australian businessman Max Marchione is Silicon Valley's latest tech and health phenomenon. His company, Superpower, is already making waves for offering a future-oriented but affordable longevity app to health-conscious professionals who desire to live longer, healthier lives. The firm has been worth over $300 million in just two years and just closed a $47 million round.

Marchione, a Sydneysider, relocated to San Francisco to start Superpower with the intent to ride two big waves: the imploding U.S. healthcare system and the growing demand for personalized, tech-enabled wellness solutions.

And it's working.

What Is Superpower?

Superpower is a yearly subscription longevity app that costs $499. In return, subscribers receive two yearly blood tests tested for dozens of biomarkers. According to the test results, the users receive personalized health recommendations—like supplements and preventive therapy—and fast access to healthcare providers via the app.

"Superpower is about delivering expert, preventive healthcare to more people," Marchione said. "When I first tested my biological age, it was 35. After completing our own program, it's 20.4 now. I feel better, more energetic, and more focused than I ever have before."

His transformation is not just an ad slogan—it is backed by data and an increasingly strong technology platform for real-time health monitoring and tailored wellness planning.

Celebrity and Venture Capital Support

Investors are fully on board with this new affordable longevity app. Series A funding was provided by Forerunner Ventures, which have made it a known practice to invest in Oura rings, and also involved other top names such as Day One Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, and Winklevoss Capital. Celebrity names such as actress Vanessa Hudgens, DJ Steve Aoki, and Logan Paul are included in the list of investors as well.

Forerunner co-founder Kirsten Green is currently on the board of Superpower and believes the company has the potential to disrupt healthcare.

"There's a huge gap between what people do know about their bodies and what they might know," Green said. "Superpower bridges that gap."

The app currently boasts a 150,000-person waiting list and has been well-liked by Silicon Valley's biohacking set. Its business model features collectible trading cards that are tied to investors' health data.

Marchione's journey began in Sydney, where he attended St Aloysius College, one of the city's elite schools. He started investing in technology at 17 and gave up a top-tier law degree to focus on his entrepreneurial ambitions on a full-time basis.

After co-founding Superpower in 2023 with American co-founders Kevin Unkrich and Jacob Peters, the three took up residence in an apartment-office hybrid in San Francisco, separated by nothing more than a spiral staircase.

“There is no work-life balance—it's just life," Marchione said. "And I feel privileged to be spending it doing something that does make a difference."

His move was not an accident. "The healthcare shortage is larger in the U.S., people are typically less healthy, and the market is larger," he said. "It's the perfect place to start a healthtech business."

Resolving a Personal Issue

Marchione was inspired by his own ailments. He had chronic sinusitis, insomnia, and migraines during his teenage years—afflictions that were not diagnosed for years.

“I kept getting misdiagnosed again and again until I found what I call a '10x doctor'—a physician who listened to my symptoms in totality," he said. "That made me understand how much the system is broken and how valuable individualized health data is.”

That epiphany was the template for Superpower. Marchione wants to democratize the kind of luxury healthcare that's normally reserved for billionaires such as Jeff Bezos or Peter Thiel—both of whom have publicly invested in life-extension technology.

Constructing the Health of the Future

The recently finished $47 million round will go towards expanding Superpower's engineering team, expanding its data analytics platform further, and hiring more medical professionals. Superpower currently has 80 employees, one-third of whom are based in Australia.

While fears that Superpower will widen the healthcare gap exist, Marchione insists that affordability is at the mission's center. The affordable longevity app is already being made available to the workers of small businesses, and discussions with health insurers are underway to prolong coverage.

Co-founder Kevin Unkrich summarized it most aptly: "Living with your co-founders is extreme. But building a world-changing company takes extreme focus, discipline, and trust. We're not just counting steps—we're redefining health."