EverlyWell

EverlyWell is an at-home lab testing service. Instead of booking a doctor's office visit for a basic panel, a customer collects a sample at home, mails it in, and gets results back. Julia Cheek built the company in Texas around that one shortcut, and the repeat-purchase potential of a test people take more than once is what made it read as a consumer business rather than a clinic.

Cheek pitched in Season 9, Episode 12, which aired in November 2017. She asked for 1 million dollars for 5 percent of the company, a 20 million dollar valuation and an aggressive ask for a health testing startup, but she had the sales numbers to support it. Lori Greiner took the deal at exactly those terms: the full 1 million dollars for 5 percent, with no renegotiation and no haggling over the split.

That is unusual on the show. Most deals close somewhere below the founder's opening number, and a clean yes at the asking price signals a shark who did not want to risk losing the company to a counteroffer.

The Shark Tank deal turned out to be the opening chapter. In 2021 EverlyWell acquired PWNHealth and Home Access Health Corporation and folded the combined operation into a new parent brand, Everly Health, expanding past the original mail-in kit into broader diagnostics and virtual care. The company kept building through the pandemic years, when at-home testing went from a convenience to something millions of people relied on, and used that period to keep raising capital and widen its test menu. In October 2025 it launched an AI-driven health platform called Eva, aimed at giving customers more personalized guidance based on their results.

The financial figures around the company are reported rather than audited, so they are worth reading as estimates. Press coverage of a January 2022 funding round put the raise at 170 million dollars at a valuation near 3.6 billion dollars, while more recent private-market tracking such as PitchBook has pegged it closer to the 1.3 to 1.8 billion dollar range as of 2026, reflecting the wider pullback in health-tech valuations. Estimated annual revenue is reported somewhere in the range of 60 to 111 million dollars depending on the source and the year measured, which still makes EverlyWell one of the highest-revenue companies ever to appear on the show. Julia Cheek has been named to Forbes' list of America's richest self-made women, with her personal net worth estimated around 260 million dollars in recent Forbes reporting.