[10] In December 2015, Andreessen Horowitz led a $2 million venture capital round in the company.

Chris Dixon, who has experience at companies like Soylent, led the investment for Andreessen Horowitz.

[18] In November 2017, the company's first commissioned clinical trial found that one of its supplements was less effective in many ways than the caffeine (a cup of coffee) used as the control.

[23] In 2019, the United States Special Operations Command awarded HVMN a $6M research contract for a two-phase study to investigate impact of ketones on soldier performance at altitude, in mountains, on fighter jets, and in space, and researching how ketones impact cognition, physiological reserve, and oxygen availability under stressors like hypoxia.

[25] This was in line with a fad among Silicon Valley companies and workers at that time to use biohacking techniques in the workplace.