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Setting New Benchmarks for the Age of Superintelligence

Jan 6, 2026

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Setting New Benchmarks for the Age of Superintelligence

The World Needs a Health Moonshots Race

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Starlight Helps Patients Follow Their Doctor's Orders

Jan 6, 2026

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Starlight Helps Patients Follow Their Doctor's Orders

After a chronic diagnosis or hospital discharge, patients are often left to manage complex care plans with little to no support. StartUp Health community member Nandan Rao, PhD, CEO & Founder of Starlight, is changing that by redesigning the way care is delivered between visits. This is what it looks like when care teams and patients stay connected – without adding more work for doctors.

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Zinnia Sparks Engagement and Eases Caregiver Burden in Dementia Care

Dec 30, 2025

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Zinnia Sparks Engagement and Eases Caregiver Burden in Dementia Care

StartUp Health community member Bill Uniowski, CEO & Co-founder of Zinnia Technologies, focuses on reducing caregiver burden and enhancing the quality of life for individuals living with dementia.

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Dec 23, 2025

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9 min read

InSilicoTrials-Led Consortium Secures Up to $30M ARPA-H Funding to Redefine Cardiac Drug Safety | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 23, 2025

StartUp Health community member InSilicoTrials is leading a new consortium to help predict how a person’s heart will respond to a new medicine, one of the most persistent blind spots in drug development. It was part of a notably active and global week, with substantial investment flowing into AI, digital health, biotech, mental health, chronic care, and life sciences across almost a dozen countries.

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Term Limits for an Infinite Age: Esther Dyson & Unity Stoakes on Abundance, Power, and Staying Human in an Age of AI

Dec 23, 2025

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Term Limits for an Infinite Age: Esther Dyson & Unity Stoakes on Abundance, Power, and Staying Human in an Age of AI

In this special year-end episode, StartUp Health Co-founder Unity Stoakes has an intimate chat with Esther Dyson – investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member – about her upcoming book on term limits, the dangers of abundance, and how to protect our humanity in a world of superintelligent tools.

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The Case for Limits: Esther Dyson and Unity Stoakes Discuss Staying Human in an Age of Abundance and Superintelligence

Dec 23, 2025

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The Case for Limits: Esther Dyson and Unity Stoakes Discuss Staying Human in an Age of Abundance and Superintelligence

This is a conversation about limits – why they matter, what they protect, and how they might be the missing counterweight in an era of runaway scale. What follows is an edited Q&A with Esther Dyson.

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From Personal Journey to Global Mission: Richard Lui on Love, Labor, and Why He Is Leading StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot

Dec 19, 2025

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From Personal Journey to Global Mission: Richard Lui on Love, Labor, and Why He Is Leading StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot

Caregiving touches every family, yet caregivers often remain unseen. In this conversation from HLTH in Las Vegas, StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes sits down with Richard Lui, award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and Chief Impact Officer for StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot.

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Dec 19, 2025

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Inside the Caregiving Moonshot: Richard Lui Is Calling Innovators to Build for the Backbone of Health

Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Richard Lui, Chief Impact Officer for StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot, shares the personal journey that sparked his mission to transform the global care economy. He explains why caregiving must become a core pillar of every health innovation strategy and why now is the moment for more founders, investors, and leaders to join this movement.

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Born from Experience: How The Care Hack Is Fixing the Caregiver Crisis

Dec 16, 2025

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3 min read

Born from Experience: How The Care Hack Is Fixing the Caregiver Crisis

In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, Unity Stoakes sits down with Mitul Desai, co-founder of The Care Hack, a member of StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot Community. Desai opens up about the decades-long journey that began when his younger brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and his family became full-time caregivers – with no support, no training, and no roadmap.

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Dec 16, 2025

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Punto Health Raises Seed Funding for ‘OS for Dementia Care’ | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 16, 2025

London-based StartUp Health community member Punto Health – under the leadership of CEO & Co-founder Anna Muñoz-Farré – is developing AI-powered tools for early detection and personalized support in dementia and cognitive decline. It capped a remarkably busy and truly global week, with funding flowing into AI, biotech, women’s health, clinical infrastructure, and preventive care companies from more than a dozen countries.

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

How EmTech Care Labs’ Care-Wallet Is Changing Dementia Care at Home

Dec 12, 2025

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How EmTech Care Labs’ Care-Wallet Is Changing Dementia Care at Home

StartUp Health community member Aarabi Balasubramanian, CEO & Founder of EmTech Care Labs, joins StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes to share the deeply personal story that inspired Care-WalletTM, her virtual care management platform for families navigating Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

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Meet EmTech Care Labs: Helping Families Navigate Dementia Care at Home

Dec 12, 2025

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5 min read

Meet EmTech Care Labs: Helping Families Navigate Dementia Care at Home

StartUp Health community member Aarabi Balasubramanian, CEO & Founder of EmTech Care Labs, is building Care-WalletTM, an AI-enabled, human-first care management platform that helps families and physicians coordinate dementia care at home, starting in Maine and Massachusetts.

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Caregiving Moonshot

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Dec 9, 2025

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5 min read

AI-Powered Benefits, Clinical Research, and Care Delivery Lead Global Funding Momentum | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 9, 2025

Major raises this week underscored the growing demand for AI-driven infrastructure across the health ecosystem, from Angle Health’s $134M round to modernize healthcare benefits, to Paradigm Health’s $78M for clinical research enablement, and Artera’s $65M for agentic care support. Additional investments spanned thrombectomy innovation, digital-first behavioral health, longevity biotech, clinical trial access, oncology AI, and global medication safety.

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What Happens After the Doctor Visit? How Starlight Is Reinventing Follow-Up Care

Dec 9, 2025

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3 min read

What Happens After the Doctor Visit? How Starlight Is Reinventing Follow-Up Care

In this episode, StartUp Health community member Nandan Rao, CEO & Founder of Starlight, shares how his company is filling one of the biggest gaps in modern healthcare: what happens after the visit.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence

The age of superintelligence has arrived, reshaping healthcare at a pace that even most futurists underestimated until recently. As AI accelerates discovery, democratizes expertise, streamlines administrative tasks, and rewrites how care is delivered, the once-distant vision of achieving global health moonshots is shifting from audacious dream to attainable reality. The question now is how we can best guide this transformation, and level-up our creative use of these powerful tools with greater purpose and speed – the time is now to seize this moment for the benefit of billions.

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Dec 2, 2025

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Curative Brings in $150M+ for Prevention-First Health Coverage | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 2, 2025

Curative led this week’s global funding with a major raise to advance its prevention-driven health insurance model designed to lower costs and improve long-term outcomes. Additional rounds showcased continued innovation across complex care navigation, precision psychiatry, specialty-care AI, women’s health therapeutics, and next-gen drug discovery.

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Meet Cognimark: An AI-Powered Neurology Copilot for Early Detection of Dementia

Dec 2, 2025

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6 min read

Meet Cognimark: An AI-Powered Neurology Copilot for Early Detection of Dementia

StartUp Health community member Andrew Lu, CEO & Co-founder of Cognimark, is building an AI-powered neurology copilot to help physicians detect dementia earlier, ease documentation burdens, and give families the answers they need sooner.

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Health Moonshot Update

Meet Cognimark: How Andrew Lu Is Reimagining Brain Health with an AI-Powered Neurology Copilot

Dec 2, 2025

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3 min read

Meet Cognimark: How Andrew Lu Is Reimagining Brain Health with an AI-Powered Neurology Copilot

In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, Unity Stoakes sits down with StartUp Health community member Andrew Lu, CEO & Co-founder of Cognimark, to explore how AI is reshaping dementia care from the ground up.

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

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Dec 1, 2025

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2 min read

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Setting New Benchmarks for the Age of Superintelligence

Starlight Helps Patients Follow Their Doctor's Orders

Zinnia Sparks Engagement and Eases Caregiver Burden in Dementia Care

InSilicoTrials-Led Consortium Secures Up to $30M ARPA-H Funding to Redefine Cardiac Drug Safety | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 23, 2025

Term Limits for an Infinite Age: Esther Dyson & Unity Stoakes on Abundance, Power, and Staying Human in an Age of AI

The Case for Limits: Esther Dyson and Unity Stoakes Discuss Staying Human in an Age of Abundance and Superintelligence

From Personal Journey to Global Mission: Richard Lui on Love, Labor, and Why He Is Leading StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot

Inside the Caregiving Moonshot: Richard Lui Is Calling Innovators to Build for the Backbone of Health

Born from Experience: How The Care Hack Is Fixing the Caregiver Crisis

Punto Health Raises Seed Funding for ‘OS for Dementia Care’ | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 16, 2025

How EmTech Care Labs’ Care-Wallet Is Changing Dementia Care at Home

Meet EmTech Care Labs: Helping Families Navigate Dementia Care at Home

AI-Powered Benefits, Clinical Research, and Care Delivery Lead Global Funding Momentum | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 9, 2025

What Happens After the Doctor Visit? How Starlight Is Reinventing Follow-Up Care

Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence

Curative Brings in $150M+ for Prevention-First Health Coverage | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Dec 2, 2025

Meet Cognimark: An AI-Powered Neurology Copilot for Early Detection of Dementia

Meet Cognimark: How Andrew Lu Is Reimagining Brain Health with an AI-Powered Neurology Copilot

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