Lestat McCree

Lestat McCree is a British entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive of Healf, a curated health and wellness e-commerce platform based in London.^[12] He co-founded the company in 2020 with his brother Max Clarke.^[1] By early 2026, Healf had surpassed £100 million in annualised revenue while having raised under £5 million in external funding, and was ranked the No. 1 fastest-growing company in Europe on the Financial Times FT1000 list, with a compound annual growth rate of 621.74 percent between 2021 and 2024.^[16][14] The same month, Healf was named the No. 1 fastest-growing company in the UK and Ireland on the Sifted Leaderboard.^[17]

Healf operates as a curated marketplace organised around four pillars — Eat, Move, Mind, and Sleep — stocking more than 4,000 products from over 200 brands and serving more than 550,000 customers.^[7][2] The company was bootstrapped for its first several years; McCree and Clarke personally packed and shipped orders during the early growth phase.^[4] Healf raised a multimillion-dollar round led by Iris Ventures in 2025, and in 2026 closed a subsequent round led by SEMCAP Beauty & Wellness to fund international expansion and the development of Healf Zone, a biomarker-driven personalisation service.^[10][3] McCree and Clarke were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Retail & Ecommerce category in 2026.^[7]

Before founding Healf, McCree studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at King's College London, completed a full-stack web development programme at Le Wagon, and worked as a partnerships manager at Urban, an on-demand wellness services platform.^[4][19] He was 27 years old at the time of Healf's first formal press interview in late 2025.^[4]

McCree was born in January 1998 and grew up in Manchester, England.^[4][1] He and his brother Max Clarke both attended The Manchester Grammar School, one of the UK's academically selective independent schools.^[4] McCree went on to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at King's College London.^[19][20]

In 2019, he enrolled in Le Wagon's intensive coding bootcamp in London, earning a certificate in full-stack web development.^[19] The same year, he completed a brief internship at Talis Capital, a London-based venture capital firm.^[12] McCree has described the period as a deliberate phase of skill-building before launching his next venture.^[19]

Outside of his professional career, McCree has competed in endurance and combat sports, including Ironman triathlons, amateur boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.^[1] He has volunteered with Right to Dream, a Ghana-based organisation focused on poverty alleviation through education and sport, since 2016.^[12]

Urban (2019–2021)

McCree joined Urban, a London-based on-demand wellness and beauty services platform, as a partnerships manager in late 2019.^[12] The role placed him at the intersection of wellness, technology, and consumer marketplaces, and gave him direct exposure to the fragmented nature of the wellness industry — an experience he has cited as formative in identifying the gap that Healf would later address.^[19] He remained at Urban through 2021, overlapping with the early founding period of Healf.^[12]

Healf (2020–present)

McCree co-founded Healf in June 2020 with his brother Max Clarke.^[1][12] The company's origin was rooted in Clarke's personal health experience: as a teenager, Clarke had suffered chronic nosebleeds multiple times a week, which led him to experiment with supplements, sauna, dietary changes, yoga, and meditation.^[1] Clarke later said that within about a year of adopting these practices, "I literally felt like a completely different person and the nosebleeds completely stopped."^[1] Both brothers found the process of navigating the wellness market — scattered across dozens of websites, filled with conflicting advice — to be overwhelming.^[2] McCree has said: "Well-being shouldn't feel overwhelming — but it so often does. From Day One, Healf has been dedicated to cutting through the noise with simplicity, credibility and curation."^[2]

The platform launched publicly in 2021, organised around four proprietary pillars — Eat, Move, Mind, and Sleep — with a curation model in which the founders personally tested every product before listing it.^[15][1] Healf was bootstrapped for its first several years. The brothers personally packed boxes and managed operations during the early growth phase, a period McCree later described as formative.^[4] By early 2025, the company had reached £40 million in annual sales, representing 434 percent growth over three years.^[19]

In June 2025, Healf closed a multimillion-dollar funding round led by Iris Ventures, with participation from JamJar Investments.^[10][6] At the time of the round, the platform stocked more than 4,000 products, had a community of 325,000 customers, and had 282,000 Instagram followers.^[2][10] Women's Wear Daily reported that the round would fund expansion into AI-powered personalisation and new product categories.^[10]

In October 2025, Healf staged its inaugural live event, the Healf Experience (HX25), at 180 Studios in London.^[18] The three-day festival drew more than 5,000 paying attendees and featured speakers including former England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson and Whoop principal scientist Kristen Holmes.^[4][18] McCree described the atmosphere: "People were jumping in ice baths, taking saunas and doing red light therapy: it was a nuts weekend."^[4] The same month, Healf passed £100 million in annualised revenue.^[4] A profile in The Times noted that the brothers collectively retained approximately 60 percent ownership of the company, with shares also extended to all employees.^[4]

Also in 2025, Healf launched a virtual storefront in partnership with Deliveroo Hop, making its products available for rapid delivery in London.^[5] The Grocer reported that the partnership marked Healf's first move into instant-delivery retail.^[5]

In March 2026, the Financial Times ranked Healf No. 1 on the FT1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing companies, based on a compound annual growth rate of 621.74 percent between 2021 and 2024 — the highest CAGR of any company on the list.^[16][14] The same month, Sifted named Healf the No. 1 fastest-growing company in the UK and Ireland on its 2026 Leaderboard, a ranking that has previously included Monzo, Flow, and Cleo.^[17] Forbes generated $56 million in 2024 revenue for the company and named McCree and Clarke to its 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Retail & Ecommerce category.^[7]

In September 2026, SEMCAP Beauty & Wellness led a new funding round for Healf, acquiring a minority stake alongside investors including Pentland Ventures, Ami Capital, Active Partners, Sequel, Dara5, and Iris Ventures.^[3][8] Individual investors in the round included Claudia Schiffer, Natalia Vodianova Arnault, and more than 40 professional athletes including Reece James and Trevoh Chalobah.^[3][13] The capital was directed toward the development of Healf Zone — a diagnostics-driven personalisation service using home blood-testing kits and wearable device data to generate biomarker-led product recommendations — and international expansion, beginning with Germany in July 2026.^[3][9][11] At the time of the round, Healf had surpassed $135 million in annualised revenue with fewer than 100 full-time employees.^[3][16]

McCree is scheduled to speak at London Tech Week 2027.^[20] His speaker biography describes Healf's long-term ambition as "building the operating system for human health."^[20]

In 2026, Healf was ranked No. 1 on the Financial Times FT1000 list of Europe's fastest-growing companies, compiled in collaboration with Statista, based on a 621.74 percent CAGR between 2021 and 2024.^[16][14] The same year, Sifted named Healf the No. 1 fastest-growing company in the UK and Ireland on its annual Leaderboard.^[17]

McCree and Clarke were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2026 list in the Retail & Ecommerce category.^[7] McCree was selected as a featured speaker at London Tech Week 2027.^[20]

McCree lives in London and has one child.^[4] His brother and co-founder Max Clarke has two daughters.^[4] The brothers operate from The Ark, a 12-storey building in Hammersmith, west London.^[4] McCree has competed in Ironman triathlons, amateur boxing, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.^[1] In 2017, he summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.^[12]