https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/06/04/elizabeth-holmes-appeal-set-to-be-heard-tuesday-in-federal-court/ > Imprisoned Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ appeal is set to be heard Tuesday in San Francisco federal court. > The notorious founder of the now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup is serving a lengthy sentence at a minimum-security prison in Texas. Her startup, once valued at $9 billion, claimed its machines, using just a few drops of blood from a finger-prick, could conduct more than a thousand tests for diseases and conditions from cancer and diabetes to pregnancy and HIV infection.