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StartUp Health Insider | Use AI. Don't let it use you: A new chat with Esther Dyson on being human in an age of artificial scale

Jun 6, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Use AI. Don't let it use you: A new chat with Esther Dyson on being human in an age of artificial scale

Esther’s fresh and thoughtful fireside chat is worth your time. Plus: she'll be at Civic Health Forum on June 16.

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More Time to Be Human: Esther Dyson on AI, Human Limits, and the Healthcare We’re Not Building

Jun 5, 2026

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More Time to Be Human: Esther Dyson on AI, Human Limits, and the Healthcare We’re Not Building

In a wide-ranging community fireside chat, investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member Esther Dyson made the case for limits as a feature, not a flaw, and pushed health innovators to ask harder questions about what they're actually building.

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StartUp Health Insider | Meet the Civic Health Forum Speakers, Tickets Just $50 This Week

Jun 3, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Meet the Civic Health Forum Speakers, Tickets Just $50 This Week

Hospital systems, government, investors, academia, and founders: A first look at the lineup, plus a flash discount for the Insider community.

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AI and Outcomes Intelligence Headline a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of June 2, 2026

Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

AI and Outcomes Intelligence Headline a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of June 2, 2026

From fertility financing and brain mapping to oncology AI and glucose-informed weight management, this week's deals reflect a market doubling down on measurable outcomes and clinical-grade data.

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StartUp Health Insider | SynchNeuro’s noninvasive glucose monitor is hidden behind your ear

May 30, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | SynchNeuro’s noninvasive glucose monitor is hidden behind your ear

Neurosurgeon Dr. Casey Halpern of SynchNeuro on what's changed since we last spoke – and what's coming next.

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SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

May 27, 2026

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SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

StartUp Health community member Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, has spent years building toward a single audacious goal: a brain-powered, noninvasive glucose monitor worn discreetly behind the ear. With a working prototype now in internal testing and a clinical study weeks from launch, that goal has never been closer to becoming a product you can actually buy.

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What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

May 27, 2026

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What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, shares why the brain is the most powerful glucose monitor we've never used -- and what a working prototype, a launching clinical study, and a 2027 commercial target mean for the 50 million Americans living with prediabetes.

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StartUp Health Insider | ▶️ Hard-won advice from founders who've been through it

May 27, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | ▶️ Hard-won advice from founders who've been through it

Three candid conversations on pivoting, building credibility, and staying the course.

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AI Agents and Precision Tools Accelerate Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 26, 2026

May 26, 2026

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AI Agents and Precision Tools Accelerate Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 26, 2026

From enterprise AI platforms commanding unicorn valuations to seed bets on brain-computer interfaces, RNA models, and infection prediction, this week's global digital health funding reflects a field increasingly defined by AI execution at every layer of care. Here's everything that moved the needle this week.

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StartUp Health Insider | The Medicare playbook, straight from CMS 📖 ▶️ 🎧

May 23, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | The Medicare playbook, straight from CMS 📖 ▶️ 🎧

CMS Deputy Administrator Abe Sutton joined 50 StartUp Health community members for a candid fireside chat on the future of Medicare payment.

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Credibility Is a Ladder: Richard Hanbury’s Advice for Health Founders

May 21, 2026

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Credibility Is a Ladder: Richard Hanbury’s Advice for Health Founders

StartUp Health community member Richard Hanbury of Sana Health shares a hard-earned lesson for founders: in healthcare, you cannot jump to proof, you have to build it one rung at a time.

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StartUp Health Insider | From Cardiometabolic to Everything Chronic: 9amHealth's Fresh $26M Boost

May 20, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | From Cardiometabolic to Everything Chronic: 9amHealth's Fresh $26M Boost

The biggest week in AI drug discovery topped by $2.1B for Isomorphic Labs – plus StartUp Health member 9amHealth closed a $26M Series B to expand beyond cardiometabolic care.

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9amHealth's $26M Series B Expands a Proven Cardiometabolic Model | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 19, 2026

May 19, 2026

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9amHealth's $26M Series B Expands a Proven Cardiometabolic Model | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 19, 2026

StartUp Health community member 9amHealth closes a $26M Series B to extend its AI-enabled virtual specialty care platform beyond cardiometabolic health – while a $2.1B raise for Isomorphic Labs leads one of the most active global digital health funding weeks in recent memory.

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What CMS Wants Health Tech Founders to Know About the Future of Medicare

May 18, 2026

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What CMS Wants Health Tech Founders to Know About the Future of Medicare

In an interactive fireside chat with 50 StartUp Health community members, CMS Deputy Administrator Abe Sutton shared his unfiltered view of where federal healthcare payment is heading and what it means for technology innovators building in the Medicare space.

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CMS Pays for Outcomes, Not Just Services | Fireside Chat with Abe Sutton, CMS Deputy Administrator

May 18, 2026

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CMS Pays for Outcomes, Not Just Services | Fireside Chat with Abe Sutton, CMS Deputy Administrator

The federal government is sending a clear signal to health tech founders: if your business is built on delivering better clinical outcomes, there has never been a more direct path into Medicare.

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StartUp Health Insider | Resolving up to 80% of health needs before insurance is triggered 🎧

May 16, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Resolving up to 80% of health needs before insurance is triggered 🎧

EqualityMD’s pre-insurance strategy reduces care avoidance and lowers healthcare costs.

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StartUp Health Insider | Round 2: Introducing 4 More Founders You'll Meet on June 16 in NYC

May 13, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Round 2: Introducing 4 More Founders You'll Meet on June 16 in NYC

Get to know these innovators taking the stage at Civic Health Forum.

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AI Agents, Cell Mapping, plus Pediatric and Sexual Wellness Platforms Power Global Health Innovation Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 12, 2026

May 12, 2026

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AI Agents, Cell Mapping, plus Pediatric and Sexual Wellness Platforms Power Global Health Innovation Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 12, 2026

From healthcare operations AI and pediatric-native platforms to obesity medtech and patient empowerment apps, this week's funding roundup spans the US, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond — reflecting strong global momentum across digital health and life sciences.

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StartUp Health Insider | Rewiring pain and PTSD through light, sound, and science

May 9, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Rewiring pain and PTSD through light, sound, and science

Richard Hanbury of Sana Health shares how a personal breakthrough in pain led to the world’s first approved audiovisual neuromodulation device, and why building medical credibility is a step-by-step journey.

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StartUp Health Insider | Real Voices, Real Impact: Dan Kendall & Unity Stoakes on Podcasting in the Age of AI

May 6, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Real Voices, Real Impact: Dan Kendall & Unity Stoakes on Podcasting in the Age of AI

Why authentic human stories are becoming more valuable as AI takes over content creation.

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AI Platforms and Neurotechnology Power a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 5, 2026

May 5, 2026

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AI Platforms and Neurotechnology Power a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 5, 2026

From a landmark non-dilutive financing for a DTC telemedicine platform to a Series E for a clinical AI leader, this week's global digital health funding roundup spans AI-driven care operations, prescription infrastructure, brain-computer interfaces, drug discovery, surgical imaging, and eldertech – with deals spanning the U.S., Israel, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, and beyond.

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Why Every Health Innovator Needs to Add a Podcast

May 5, 2026

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Why Every Health Innovator Needs to Add a Podcast

StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes sat down with Dan Kendall, founder of Mission Based Media and the Health Podcast Library, for a conversation about the power of audio storytelling in health innovation, and why the moment to start is now.

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StartUp Health Insider | Meet a Few of the Health Transformers Presenting at Civic Health Forum

May 2, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Meet a Few of the Health Transformers Presenting at Civic Health Forum

A first look at a handful of the founders who will be showcasing in June at the Civic Health Forum.

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StartUp Health Insider | Cala’s Wearable Neuromodulation Gets Additional $50M Boost + FDA Clearance

Apr 29, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Cala’s Wearable Neuromodulation Gets Additional $50M Boost + FDA Clearance

Millions of Americans with essential tremor and Parkinson's get new hope as Cala Health secures $50M to scale FDA-cleared wearable therapy.

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Cala Health Secures $50M to Scale Wearable Tremor Therapy | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 28, 2026

Apr 28, 2026

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Cala Health Secures $50M to Scale Wearable Tremor Therapy | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 28, 2026

StartUp Health community member Cala Health headlines this week's funding with a $50M growth round from Trinity Capital, building on FDA clearance for their next-gen tremor therapy device and new Medicare coverage. Plus deals across revenue cycle management, AI precision oncology, dermatology robotics, and more.

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