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Founders of poop-testing uBiome, reportedly on the run, charged by SEC with defrauding investors
endpts.com ^ | Max Gelman

Posted on 03/19/2021 8:39:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The SEC charged Jessica Richman and Zachary Apte, the co-founders of the poop-testing startup uBiome, with defrauding investors out of $60 million through misleading statements and false representations of the company’s prospects. [T]he charges stem from a 2018 Series C round valuing the company that once appointed ex-Novartis CEO Joe Jimenez to its board at nearly $600 million.

Regulators submitted their filing in federal court in San Francisco, and are seeking to bar Richman and Apte from serving in future officer and director positions. Thursday’s indictment describes Richman and Apte as fugitives...

Founded way back in 2012, uBiome burst onto the scene with a pledge to crowdsource the sequencing and mapping of the human microbiome — the bacterial ecosystem inside the gut that some scientists say has wide-ranging impacts on one’s health. The company pitched itself as the next 23andMe, offering to analyze stool samples and return health-related advice.

By the time its Indiegogo funding page closed in February 2013, uBiome had raised over $350,000. The company also recruited several notable scientists over the years, including geneticist George Church to its scientific advisory board.

uBiome eventually expanded their products to include vaginal health and STDs women face. And to ostensibly beef up a drug R&D plan, the company added Jimenez to its board in 2018, despite a scandal where Jimenez paid former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen a $1.2 million contract.

But the house of cards began to crumble when some researchers sounded alarms that the science behind the company didn’t all add up. They said that, like when 23andMe first started, there simply hadn’t been enough research into the microbiome to offer sweeping health advice based on a stool sample. 23andMe, after facing its own criticism, eventually gained FDA approval for several of its services.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: defrauding; fraud; investors; sec; ubiome
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1 posted on 03/19/2021 8:39:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I originally read it as “uBlome”.


2 posted on 03/19/2021 8:40:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Is what you are saying is they got the runs?


3 posted on 03/19/2021 8:41:00 PM PDT by sport
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To: BenLurkin

A suit filed against a poop testing company being filed in San Francisco?

Of course. The jokes just write themselves.


4 posted on 03/19/2021 8:44:07 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Somebody needs to get to the bottom of this!


5 posted on 03/19/2021 8:47:36 PM PDT by null and void (The media decides what news you can see and NOT SEE. But don't you dare call 'em Not-Sees)
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To: BenLurkin

A crap business model if you ask me.


6 posted on 03/19/2021 8:49:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin
What did they hire Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos as a consultant?


7 posted on 03/19/2021 8:49:18 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dfwgator

Meet the new CEO, Haywood Djablomie


8 posted on 03/19/2021 8:49:46 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BenLurkin

Something smells....


9 posted on 03/19/2021 8:50:29 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BenLurkin

“STDs women face”

you mean the exact same ones as men do...and i’m rhetorically saying that to the author, not the poster :)


10 posted on 03/19/2021 8:54:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: null and void

I’m sure the SEC will flush out these poop testing bad guys.


11 posted on 03/19/2021 8:54:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: dfwgator

I originally read it as Cuomo. My misunderstanding is perfectly reasonable.


12 posted on 03/19/2021 9:01:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: dfwgator

“uBiome eventually expanded their products to include vaginal health and STDs women face.”

Risky move there! That probably started a lot of people asking questions.


13 posted on 03/19/2021 9:05:15 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: monkeyshine

Such a CLASSIC picture of Holmes. And yep, that was my first thought too!


14 posted on 03/19/2021 9:05:56 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: BenLurkin

What is this, Theranos chapter deux?


15 posted on 03/19/2021 9:06:50 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: BenLurkin

You can make this shit up apparently.


16 posted on 03/19/2021 9:18:59 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, Crap!


17 posted on 03/19/2021 9:24:53 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: BenLurkin

They are full of sh*t


18 posted on 03/19/2021 9:58:15 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: BenLurkin

And they had to drag Trumps name into this for some reason.🙄


19 posted on 03/19/2021 10:00:09 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: BenLurkin

Saturday Night Live could make a one hour insanely funny show of this. They will not.

It is funny. I would suggest it start with, “you will stick a swab up my ass?” The jokes would then follow.


20 posted on 03/19/2021 10:06:53 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist. CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR. )
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