A wellbeing startup based in Liverpool is eyeing global growth after securing a place at Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Business Incubation Centre.
The Wellbeing Doctors – led by medical doctor Ed Lynch – works with corporate clients including CBRE, Bruntwood and KPMG to deliver B2B services such as workplace health events, onsite clinics, health education and cash plan optimisation.
It has now developed a longevity app, Helfy, which is targeted at the B2C market and already has more than 2,000 individual users.
“This is not a generic wellness app,” said Dr Lynch. “Helfy is pioneering the future of lifestyle medicine – where blood diagnostics, clinical coaching and habit reprogramming combine into one seamless, evidence-backed platform.”
Lynch says that before he founded the business with Shilvan Tavares in 2022, most digital health brands were still “peddling wearable gimmicks and surface-level advice”.
He says Helfy is far more serious: a clinically-led longevity platform rooted in medical science, behavioural change and precise diagnostics.
Helfy has already begun clinical collaboration with The Royal and Aintree Hospitals in Liverpool, working to validate lifestyle interventions that can shift population health outcomes before chronic illness takes hold.
On the global stage, Helfy is setting up its tech infrastructure in Cape Verde, in partnership with one of the region’s fastest-scaling innovation parks.
Lynch says there has been inbound traction from Europe, the UAE and the US, adding: “The Helfy engine is warming up for global expansion – with the same clinical rigour at its core.”
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The BIC programme at Sci-Tech Daresbury kicks off on 25th July and runs for 18 months.
Dr Lynch says The Wellbeing Doctors is in discussions with potential clients London Stock Exchange, Eddie Stobart, Müller Group and British Business Bank.
He hosts the company’s BeHelfy Podcast, which brings together some of the world’s leading minds in medicine, science and high-performance culture to make complex health topics engaging, digestible and actionable.
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