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A 9-Year Overnight Success Story: How Pelago Is Rebuilding Behavioral Health for the AI Era

Aug 21, 2026

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A 9-Year Overnight Success Story: How Pelago Is Rebuilding Behavioral Health for the AI Era

Long-time StartUp Health member Dr. Yusuf Sherwani shares the decisions behind a 10x drop in treatment costs, raising $150M, and why he's rebuilding Pelago around AI-powered care

Access to Care Moonshot

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Addiction & Opioid Crisis Moonshot

Health Moonshot Update

How Dentistry.One is turning every doctor's visit into a dental referral

Aug 19, 2026

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1 min read

How Dentistry.One is turning every doctor's visit into a dental referral

StartUp Health community member Brant Herman explains why the biggest barrier to dental care isn't awareness, it's a broken handoff, and how teledentistry is fixing it.

Oral Health Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

StartUp Health Insider | What Health Innovation’s Sharpest Minds Are Thinking About Right Now

Aug 19, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | What Health Innovation’s Sharpest Minds Are Thinking About Right Now

From AI fatigue to what investors are focused on now, our community's latest conversations cover it all.

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AI-Native Biotech Startup Banks $100M as Health Innovation Funding Rolls On | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 18, 2026

Aug 18, 2026

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AI-Native Biotech Startup Banks $100M as Health Innovation Funding Rolls On | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 18, 2026

From foundation models for drug discovery to smart rings that diagnose sleep apnea in three nights, this week's raises span the globe – and the stage.

Insights

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Aidar Health's MouthLab: Turning breath into a window into the body

Aug 17, 2026

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1 min read

Aidar Health's MouthLab: Turning breath into a window into the body

Long-time StartUp Health member Sathya Elumalai shares why saliva and breath, not wrists and fingers, may be the richest data source in health tech.

Access to Care Moonshot

Video

Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | Inside MEI Micro: The sensor breakthrough behind earlier disease detection

Aug 15, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Inside MEI Micro: The sensor breakthrough behind earlier disease detection

MEI Micro's founder Louis Ross on why precision, not software, may unlock earlier disease detection

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How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

Aug 14, 2026

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1 min read

How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

Dr. Yair Saperstein, CEO & Co-founder of Avo, on why he built an AI decision-support layer for the exact problem that was burning him out as a hospitalist

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine

Aug 14, 2026

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1 min read

MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine

Louis Ross, MEI Micro's founder, shares why accuracy is the real unlock for early disease detection.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

How Pelago cut addiction treatment costs by 10x – and why AI changes what's next

Aug 12, 2026

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2 min read

How Pelago cut addiction treatment costs by 10x – and why AI changes what's next

Pelago's Dr. Yusuf Sherwani on a decade of building addiction care, the metrics behind a $150M raise, and why Pelago is refounding itself for the age of AI.

Addiction & Opioid Crisis Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

StartUp Health Insider | Microsoft's AI lead on what actually wins in health tech

Aug 12, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Microsoft's AI lead on what actually wins in health tech

A fireside chat with Microsoft's Kimmi Grewal on data, speed, and the real differentiator for health AI startups.

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AHA Ventures' Lisa Suennen on stroke, women's health, and the AI fatigue problem

Aug 11, 2026

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AHA Ventures' Lisa Suennen on stroke, women's health, and the AI fatigue problem

Lisa Suennen has invested in health innovation for over three decades – and she says the math hasn't changed. In this Expert AMA, the AHA Ventures managing partner shares where she's leaning in across heart and brain health, why she's wary of AI-for-AI's-sake, and the one thing she says matters more than any pitch deck. StartUp Health members were in the room for the live Q&A that followed.

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StartUp Health Event

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

From Eye Disease to AI Fraud Detection, Global Health Innovation Funding Wave Continues | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 11, 2026

Aug 11, 2026

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From Eye Disease to AI Fraud Detection, Global Health Innovation Funding Wave Continues | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 11, 2026

A $118M round for a blindness therapy leads a week stretching from Sydney robotics to Dubai longevity labs, with AI showing up everywhere from cancer surveillance to dental design.

Insights

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Microsoft VP on Why Healthcare Is Outpacing AI Adoption Expectations

Aug 11, 2026

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2 min read

Microsoft VP on Why Healthcare Is Outpacing AI Adoption Expectations

A fireside chat with Microsoft's Kimmi Grewal on data, speed, and what it really takes for health innovators to win with AI

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Thought Leadership

StartUp Health Event

Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

Aug 10, 2026

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1 min read

Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

What if the sensor in your wearable is the limiting factor in what it can tell you about your health?

Video

Health Moonshot Update

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | ⌚ Meet GPx: The startup turning smartwatches into early warning systems for heart failure

Aug 8, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | ⌚ Meet GPx: The startup turning smartwatches into early warning systems for heart failure

No implants, no needles – General Prognostics combines an off-the-shelf smartwatch with an algorithm doctors trust.

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Microsoft's AI ecosystem lead on the real moat in health AI

Aug 7, 2026

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1 min read

Microsoft's AI ecosystem lead on the real moat in health AI

Microsoft VP Kimmi Grewal joins Unity Stoakes to unpack why workflow and data – not the model – are the real differentiator for health AI startups.

Thought Leadership

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StartUp Health Event

GPx Is Turning Smartwatches into a Non-Invasive Wearable "CGM for Heart Failure"

Aug 7, 2026

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GPx Is Turning Smartwatches into a Non-Invasive Wearable "CGM for Heart Failure"

For heart failure patients, the space between doctor visits is often a black box. StartUp Health member Sean Matsuoka of General Prognostics wants to fix that.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Healing Without Drugs: A Promising Future for Alzheimer’s Patients

Aug 7, 2026

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5 min read

Healing Without Drugs: A Promising Future for Alzheimer’s Patients

A wave of non-drug, technology-driven therapies is reshaping what's possible for the millions of families facing Alzheimer's – and StartUp Health's Alzheimer's Moonshot Community is helping lead the way.

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

Aug 6, 2026

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1 min read

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

General Prognostics provides a non‐invasive wearable that continuously monitors heart‐failure biomarkers using a standard smartwatch, enabling doctors to detect worsening HF weeks early and intervene remotely, improving outcomes and scalability.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | Two panels, one question: where does health innovation actually start?

Aug 5, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Two panels, one question: where does health innovation actually start?

Founders building for the 99% and providers redesigning care from the inside, live from Civic Health Forum.

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General Catalyst's $450M Bet on Function Health Headlines a 18-Deal Global Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 4, 2026

Aug 4, 2026

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General Catalyst's $450M Bet on Function Health Headlines a 18-Deal Global Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 4, 2026

General Catalyst's $450M vote of confidence in a health-ownership platform sets the tone for a week of AI-driven diagnostics, monitoring, and preventive care deals spanning four continents.

Insights

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StartUp Health Insider | Sharpen your story or your systems – free with membership this month

Aug 1, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Sharpen your story or your systems – free with membership this month

New members who join by September 1 get their choice of a free website & brand audit, pitch & story audit, or AI ops audit.

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One Community. One Simple Plan. One End-of-Summer Bonus Offer.

Jul 31, 2026

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One Community. One Simple Plan. One End-of-Summer Bonus Offer.

Join StartUp Health before September 1 and get a free audit to help sharpen your story or your systems.

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StartUp Health Insider | 🚨 These founders are catching risk before it becomes a crisis

Jul 29, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | 🚨 These founders are catching risk before it becomes a crisis

From Civic Health Forum: these innovators are building the systems that flag risk before it becomes a crisis.

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Next-Gen Tech and AI Platforms Continue to Power Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jul 28, 2026

Jul 28, 2026

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Next-Gen Tech and AI Platforms Continue to Power Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jul 28, 2026

From Candid Health's $120M raise to AI-powered tools spanning five continents, this week's roundup spotlights the widening reach of health innovation – from cardiac care in New Mexico to brain injury detection in Mumbai.

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