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From Breath to Biomarker: How Aidar Health Is Reimagining Diagnostics with MouthLab

Sep 8, 2026

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2 min read

From Breath to Biomarker: How Aidar Health Is Reimagining Diagnostics with MouthLab

Sathya Elumalai has spent a decade building past the wearable, betting that breath and saliva hold more answers than any wrist-worn sensor.

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Health Moonshot Update

StartUp Health Insider | Your Weekend Listen: 5 podcasts exploring the role of tech in health

Sep 5, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Your Weekend Listen: 5 podcasts exploring the role of tech in health

Five stories, one thread: Using tech and AI to extend human judgment instead of replacing it.

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StartUp Health Insider | You’re Invited: Chat with Investor Bob Kocher of Venrock Next Week

Sep 2, 2026

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4 min read

StartUp Health Insider | You’re Invited: Chat with Investor Bob Kocher of Venrock Next Week

Venrock's Bob Kocher joins our next Fireside Chat. Members have a seat in the room.

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Scan.com Closes $220M as Pear Suite Lands a New Grant | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 1, 2026

Sep 1, 2026

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3 min read

Scan.com Closes $220M as Pear Suite Lands a New Grant | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 1, 2026

Two StartUp Health community members headline this week's roundup: Scan.com raised $220M in combined equity and debt to scale its imaging API nationwide, while Pear Suite added fresh Health Net investment to expand community health worker technology across California – plus 11 more raises spanning behavioral health AI, revenue cycle automation, and wellbeing guidance.

Access to Care Moonshot

Insights

Blog

Why Employee Mental Health Benefits Need to Get Proactive

Sep 1, 2026

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1 min read

Why Employee Mental Health Benefits Need to Get Proactive

Stephen Sokoler explains why reactive EAPs are falling short and how Journey is building a preventive model backed by hard-dollar outcomes.

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Health Moonshot Update

Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

UnaliWear's Kanega: The Watch Designed to Never Look Like a Medical Alert

Aug 31, 2026

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1 min read

UnaliWear's Kanega: The Watch Designed to Never Look Like a Medical Alert

UnaliWear founder Jean Anne Booth explains how a rejected garage-door-opener pendant became a Wirecutter-favorite watch built for independence with dignity.

Caregiving Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Healthy Longevity Moonshot

StartUp Health Insider | Meet the doctorpreneur solving his own problem, at scale

Aug 29, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Meet the doctorpreneur solving his own problem, at scale

Inside Avo's growth from founder-led tool to enterprise platform

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How Avo Is Building the Intelligence Layer Between Doctors and Better Care Decisions

Aug 28, 2026

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2 min read

How Avo Is Building the Intelligence Layer Between Doctors and Better Care Decisions

StartUp Health community member Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, shares an update about how he turned his own burnout into Avo, and what it takes to scale AI-powered clinical decision support after a Series A.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap and Unity Stoakes

Aug 26, 2026

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1 min read

Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap and Unity Stoakes

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap on why team beats product as the real moat in health AI and what it takes to get funded right now.

Thought Leadership

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StartUp Health Event

StartUp Health Insider | Bridging Urban and Rural Care: Cityblock to Acquire Homeward Health + $116M Series E

Aug 26, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Bridging Urban and Rural Care: Cityblock to Acquire Homeward Health + $116M Series E

Cityblock's acquisition of Homeward Health pairs urban Medicaid care with rural Medicare Advantage reach.

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Why Healthcare Needs a Purpose-Built AI Tool, Not ChatGPT | Mediktor's Cristian Pascual

Aug 25, 2026

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1 min read

Why Healthcare Needs a Purpose-Built AI Tool, Not ChatGPT | Mediktor's Cristian Pascual

CEO & Co-founder Cristian Pascual explains why general-purpose AI falls short in healthcare delivery, and what it's taking to land Mediktor's first government-wide deal.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Cityblock Health Headlines a Global Funding Week with $116M Raise and Rural Care Acquisition | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 25, 2026

Aug 25, 2026

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3 min read

Cityblock Health Headlines a Global Funding Week with $116M Raise and Rural Care Acquisition | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 25, 2026

StartUp Health member Cityblock opens the week with a $116M Series E and an all-stock acquisition of Homeward Health, uniting its urban Medicaid model with rural Medicare Advantage reach – plus more funding news from across the health innovation landscape this week.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Why Digital Health Founders Should Stop Worrying If They Are “AI Enough”

Aug 24, 2026

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3 min read

Why Digital Health Founders Should Stop Worrying If They Are “AI Enough”

Blake Walker, CEO of Inbox Health, says the "AI enough" question is the wrong one – what matters is whether you own the workflow, the data, and the moat that makes you hard to replace.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Thought Leadership

StartUp Health Insider | The 9-Year "Overnight" Success Story Behind Pelago

Aug 22, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | The 9-Year "Overnight" Success Story Behind Pelago

Meet Sona, Pelago's new AI behavioral health specialist

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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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2 min read

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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3 min read

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.

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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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1 min read

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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