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Democratizing Precision: A Sensor Pioneer’s Mission to Transform Brain Health & Sports Medicine

Oct 5, 2026

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Democratizing Precision: A Sensor Pioneer’s Mission to Transform Brain Health & Sports Medicine

In this deep dive interview, Unity Stoakes sits down with MEI Micro CEO & Founder Louis Ross – a former investment strategist turned health innovator – to hear how his team built the world’s first navigation-grade, chip-scale accelerometer.

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StartUp Health Insider | How to Get on Venrock's Radar

Oct 3, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | How to Get on Venrock's Radar

Venrock's Bob Kocher on effect size, defensibility, what AI means for healthcare, and why relationships beat pitch decks.

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Venrock's Bob Kocher on the Real Test for Investable Healthcare Companies

Oct 2, 2026

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3 min read

Venrock's Bob Kocher on the Real Test for Investable Healthcare Companies

In a Fireside Chat with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes, the Venrock partner and physician makes the case that AI will improve healthcare without making it cheaper, and explains the one question he asks every founder before anything else.

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More Than a Dozen StartUp Health Members Selected as Quarterfinalists in the Digital Health & AI Awards

Oct 1, 2026

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5 min read

More Than a Dozen StartUp Health Members Selected as Quarterfinalists in the Digital Health & AI Awards

Recognized across caregiving, women's health, mental health, cardiometabolic care, and civic health, these StartUp Health community members are showing how earlier, more connected care is being built.

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Food as Medicine Health Moonshot

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | Why Reactive Mental Health Benefits Are Old News

Sep 30, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Why Reactive Mental Health Benefits Are Old News

After a decade building Journey, Stephen Sokoler is proving that proactive, data-driven mental health support isn't just more humane. It's a better business model, backed by real client outcomes and a spot on TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 list.

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After 11 Years and 11 Million Lives, Journey's Founder Says Mental Healthcare Must Get Proactive

Sep 29, 2026

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After 11 Years and 11 Million Lives, Journey's Founder Says Mental Healthcare Must Get Proactive

Stephen Sokoler built Journey to catch employees before they break – now he's betting the next era of workplace mental health is preventive, not reactive.

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Health Moonshot Update

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Ortet, OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience, EliseAI, and Enveda Headline a Mega Week in Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 29, 2026

Sep 29, 2026

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3 min read

Ortet, OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience, EliseAI, and Enveda Headline a Mega Week in Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 29, 2026

A $500M commitment to launch Ortet, a frontier AI lab for health, tops a week with seven nine-figure deals across patient-centered foundation models, AI operations automation, AI drug discovery, clinical search, brain-computer interfaces, pharmacy benefits, and biological AI. Beyond the mega-deals, investors backed microbiome testing, cardiac imaging AI, surgical training, post-acute care automation, midwife-led maternal care, and NHS primary care tools across the US, UK, France, Israel, Portugal, Japan, Australia, and India.

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Shining a Light on Alzheimer's: Guillaume Blivet's Mission to Help the Brain Fight Back

Sep 28, 2026

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2 min read

Shining a Light on Alzheimer's: Guillaume Blivet's Mission to Help the Brain Fight Back

As Chief Innovation Officer & Co-founder of REGEnLIFE, Guillaume Blivet, MPH, is advancing a non-invasive light therapy that targets both the brain and the gut, with a pivotal Alzheimer's trial underway and a new clinical partnership with the Hospices Civils de Lyon.

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Health Transformer Spotlight

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | 15 StartUp Health Members Honored by TIME

Sep 26, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | 15 StartUp Health Members Honored by TIME

Meet the members TIME recognized this year. Plus, a few seats are open at our October dinner salon in NYC.

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Validic Co-founder Drew Schiller Shares Hard-Won Lessons on Digital Health Exits

Sep 25, 2026

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1 min read

Validic Co-founder Drew Schiller Shares Hard-Won Lessons on Digital Health Exits

Fresh from a successful exit, Drew Schiller chats about black swan events, relationship-driven exits, and the hidden cost of building everything yourself with AI.

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15 StartUp Health Member Companies Honored on TIME's List of the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026

Sep 24, 2026

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6 min read

15 StartUp Health Member Companies Honored on TIME's List of the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026

From virtual specialty care in rural hospitals to wearable tremor therapy and national imaging networks, these long-time Health Transformers are showing what it looks like when digital tools and deeply human care scale together.

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StartUp Health Insider | 🦷 Why Dental Care Belongs in Every Health Checkup

Sep 23, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | 🦷 Why Dental Care Belongs in Every Health Checkup

How this founder is turning everyday healthcare visits into doorways to dental care.

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Closing the Referral Gap: How Dentistry.One Is Bringing Preventive Dental Care to Where Patients Already Are

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Closing the Referral Gap: How Dentistry.One Is Bringing Preventive Dental Care to Where Patients Already Are

Long-time StartUp Health community member Brant Herman, founder of MouthWatch and Dentistry.One, is building the bridge between medical visits and dental care that too many patients fall through.

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Health Moonshot Update

Mega-Rounds Anchor a 28-Deal Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 22, 2026

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Mega-Rounds Anchor a 28-Deal Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 22, 2026

A $600M raise for Angle Health and a $340M round for Heidi top a week that stretched from San Francisco to Shanghai, Melbourne to Cairo, with 28 deals spanning benefits tech, AI diagnostics, women's health, and clinical infrastructure.

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Resilience by Design: How Danguole Altman Built a Career Around Earlier Diagnosis While Retaining Hard-Won Balance

Sep 21, 2026

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3 min read

Resilience by Design: How Danguole Altman Built a Career Around Earlier Diagnosis While Retaining Hard-Won Balance

As CEO of Cx Precision Medicine, Danguole Altman is closing the gap between first symptom and diagnosis, drawing on a lifetime of resilience, heritage, and hard-won balance.

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Health Transformer Spotlight

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | Mediktor’s CEO on why trust matters more than ever in an AI-first world

Sep 19, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Mediktor’s CEO on why trust matters more than ever in an AI-first world

Certifications, clinical validation, and years of relationship-building, inside Mediktor's playbook.

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How Mediktor Is Building Trust Into AI-Powered Triage

Sep 18, 2026

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3 min read

How Mediktor Is Building Trust Into AI-Powered Triage

CEO & Co-founder Cristian Pascual shares why healthcare needs a professional AI tool – not a general one – and why Mediktor's next milestone is a government-wide agreement.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Bob Kocher of Venrock: Where Founders Should (and Shouldn't) Build in the Age of AI

Sep 17, 2026

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Bob Kocher of Venrock: Where Founders Should (and Shouldn't) Build in the Age of AI

Venrock partner and physician Bob Kocher sits down with Unity Stoakes and a room full of StartUp Health members to share why AI will improve healthcare without making it cheaper, where he sees real opportunity, and the one thing he looks for in a founder before anything else.

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StartUp Health Insider | Vheda Health lands $47M after 13 years of bootstrapped growth 🎉

Sep 16, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Vheda Health lands $47M after 13 years of bootstrapped growth 🎉

The funding will fuel national expansion of Vheda's outcomes and analytics platform. Plus: Thatch hits a $1B valuation, Tandem Health closes $100M, and 15 more deals from the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

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Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

Sep 15, 2026

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Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

As CEO & Co-founder of Spotlight-AQ, Katharine Barnard-Kelly, PhD, is proving that listening to patients isn't just compassionate care, it's better medicine.

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Vheda Health Lands $47M to Power Outcomes for Health Plans | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 15, 2026

Sep 15, 2026

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Vheda Health Lands $47M to Power Outcomes for Health Plans | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 15, 2026

We're excited for StartUp Health community member Vheda Health on securing its first institutional capital to scale outcomes and analytics for hard-to-reach health plan members. The raise headlines a week that also saw Thatch bring in a new $108M round for its health benefits platform, Tandem Health close $100M for its AI medical assistant, and more than a dozen other health innovation rounds in the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

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StartUp Health Insider | A 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI

Sep 12, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | A 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI

Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap on team over technology, the fastest-growing corner of health AI, and how to actually get funded right now.

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Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap & Unity Stoakes on Investing in the Age of AI-Native Healthcare

Sep 11, 2026

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3 min read

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap & Unity Stoakes on Investing in the Age of AI-Native Healthcare

The 50-year-old firm's healthcare investor on team over technology, the fastest-growing corner of health AI adoption, and what it really takes to get funded right now.

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StartUp Health Insider | Aidar Health just landed a spot in CMS's new outcomes-based ACCESS program

Sep 9, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Aidar Health just landed a spot in CMS's new outcomes-based ACCESS program

Aidar Health’s CEO on why the mouth may be health tech's richest data source

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Alan's $550M Megaround Leads a Blockbuster Week in Health Tech Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 8, 2026

Sep 8, 2026

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3 min read

Alan's $550M Megaround Leads a Blockbuster Week in Health Tech Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 8, 2026

Paris-based AI insurer Alan closes one of Europe's largest health tech raises this year, as global funding spans oncology care, wearables, surgical AI, and reproductive diagnostics.

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