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Why Arcade Therapeutics is turning mobile games into mental health treatment

Jul 16, 2026

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Why Arcade Therapeutics is turning mobile games into mental health treatment

StartUp Health community member Raj Amin explains how attention bias modification, backed by seven NIH-funded studies, is embedded into casual mobile games to get more people started on mental health treatment.

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StartUp Health Insider | What AI could unlock in public health

Jul 15, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | What AI could unlock in public health

A $1 investment in water fluoridation saved $14 in kids' dental bills. What else are we missing?

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AI-Powered Drug Discovery Leads Global Health Innovation Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jul 14, 2026

Jul 14, 2026

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AI-Powered Drug Discovery Leads Global Health Innovation Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jul 14, 2026

From molecular design to pharmacy automation, this week's raises span coasts and continents – a $400M mega-round out of San Francisco, senior care innovation in New York, and early-stage bets on obesity care, clinical trial AI, and cross-border telehealth stretching from Madrid to Milan to London.

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Fixing fragmented endocrine care with eddii's AI-powered specialist model

Jul 14, 2026

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Fixing fragmented endocrine care with eddii's AI-powered specialist model

StartUp Health community member Dr. Farhaneh Ahmadi on building specialist-grade endocrine care at scale, and why a paid value-based care pilot with a Fortune 100 payer is proof the model works.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Buddy Healthcare Acquired by VitalHub

Jul 14, 2026

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Buddy Healthcare Acquired by VitalHub

Since founding Buddy Healthcare in 2016, StartUp Health member Jussi Määttä and his team have built a leading care coordination platform trusted by hospitals across Europe – digitalizing perioperative and secondary care pathways to replace physical notes, phone calls, and unnecessary visits with automated guidance that keeps patients on track and frees up hospital resources.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Zinnia's purposeful TV built for people living with dementia

Jul 13, 2026

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Zinnia's purposeful TV built for people living with dementia

StartUp Health community member Bill Uniowski on why a streaming service designed for the dementia brain, now in 250 Sunrise senior living communities, is giving families moments of connection and respite.

Caregiving Moonshot

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StartUp Health Insider | 🏀 What the Knicks can teach us about public health

Jul 11, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | 🏀 What the Knicks can teach us about public health

From Civic Health Forum: aging, access, and the infrastructure catching up to meet the moment.

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How PONS is closing the diversity gap in medical imaging with ultrasound

Jul 10, 2026

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How PONS is closing the diversity gap in medical imaging with ultrasound

PONS CEO & Co-founder Soner Haci on bringing decentralized ultrasound to underrepresented communities, and a 64% improvement in early breast cancer detection with Mayo Clinic.

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Cancer Moonshot

Live @ Civic Health Forum: What the Knicks championship can teach public health about playing the long game

Jul 9, 2026

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: What the Knicks championship can teach public health about playing the long game

Luminary Labs founding partner Sara Holoubek opened the Civic Health Forum with a call to reorient public health and prevention around America's aging population – and a reminder that the last era of major health policy progress happened the same year the Knicks last won it all.

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Bringing the family caregiver into the healthcare system with Avanlee Care

Jul 9, 2026

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Bringing the family caregiver into the healthcare system with Avanlee Care

Avanlee Care CEO & Founder Avanlee Christine on why the adult child managing mom's medications and appointments is the missing link health plans need, and how retail partnerships with Walmart are making that possible.

Caregiving Moonshot

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Dentistry.One is building the digital bridge between medical and dental care

Jul 8, 2026

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Dentistry.One is building the digital bridge between medical and dental care

Dentistry.One CEO & Founder Brant Herman on why the mouth is a portal to overall health, and how a nationwide teledentistry network is closing the referral gap between MDs and dentists.

Oral Health Moonshot

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StartUp Health Insider |💡 What would it take for health innovation to actually improve health?

Jul 8, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider |💡 What would it take for health innovation to actually improve health?

JAMA Network’s Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo on silos, AI trust, GLP-1s, and why the gap between innovation and outcomes is still the central problem, plus how StartUp Health members get to be in these conversations live.

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Sleep, Behavioral Health, and Robotics Innovation Headline a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jul 7, 2026

Jul 7, 2026

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Sleep, Behavioral Health, and Robotics Innovation Headline a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jul 7, 2026

From virtual sleep medicine to autonomous robotic pharmacies, this week's raises span the full spectrum of care delivery innovation – with founders in the US, UK, Ireland, Europe, and Asia all making moves.

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What the Editor in Chief of JAMA Wants to See Next in Health Innovation

Jul 7, 2026

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What the Editor in Chief of JAMA Wants to See Next in Health Innovation

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, the Editor in Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network, sat down with us at the inaugural Civic Health Forum to make the case for why evidence, trust, and cross-sector collaboration have to be the foundation of what comes next.

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: How Providers Are Redesigning Care from Within

Jul 6, 2026

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: How Providers Are Redesigning Care from Within

Three leaders at different points in the innovation pipeline on why the best ideas start at the bedside not the boardroom and what it really takes to turn frontline ideas into scaled solutions.

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: Catalyzing Change Through Founder-Led Innovation

Jul 3, 2026

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: Catalyzing Change Through Founder-Led Innovation

Three founders on building health startups for the patients the system leaves out, from a WhatsApp front door in Mexico to a public health platform that takes no equity.

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: Why Prevention Should Be Treated as National Infrastructure

Jul 2, 2026

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: Why Prevention Should Be Treated as National Infrastructure

Three leaders who've shaped public health, hospital AI, and federal innovation policy make the case that the biggest health breakthrough isn't a new drug. It's the infrastructure we haven't built yet.

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StartUp Health Insider | Real outcomes, real momentum: Catch up on this inspirational podcast roundup 🎙️

Jul 1, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Real outcomes, real momentum: Catch up on this inspirational podcast roundup 🎙️

Four Health Transformers turning research into results, plus how to join the momentum.

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: JAMA Network Editor in Chief on AI, Evidence & the Future of Prevention

Jul 1, 2026

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Live @ Civic Health Forum: JAMA Network Editor in Chief on AI, Evidence & the Future of Prevention

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, the Editor in Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network, sat down with Unity Stoakes at the inaugural Civic Health Forum to explore what it will take for health innovation to translate into real health outcomes for real people.

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AI Agents Cap Off Q2 Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jun 30, 2026

Jun 30, 2026

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AI Agents Cap Off Q2 Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jun 30, 2026

A €480M Paris insurtech raise and a wave of AI-powered patient-access platforms headline the final week of Q2's global digital health funding activity.

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StartUp Health Insider | What Katie Brandt wants every health innovator to know about caregiving

Jun 27, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | What Katie Brandt wants every health innovator to know about caregiving

Mass General's Katie Brandt spent time with our community. Here's what she said about the second patient, the documentation gap, and why AI alone won't save caregivers.

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Aeroflow Health Acquires Canopie to Close the Maternal Care Gap for Millions of New Mothers

Jun 26, 2026

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Aeroflow Health Acquires Canopie to Close the Maternal Care Gap for Millions of New Mothers

StartUp Health portfolio company Canopie is a digital health platform delivering evidence-based preventive care programs for expecting and new mothers focused on mental health and physical wellness.

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Women’s Health Moonshot

Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

The Caregiver Is the Second Patient: Mass General’s Katie Brandt Is Making Sure Health Innovators Never Forget It

Jun 25, 2026

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The Caregiver Is the Second Patient: Mass General’s Katie Brandt Is Making Sure Health Innovators Never Forget It

As director of caregiver support services at Mass General's FTD Unit – and a caregiver herself for more than 18 years – Katie Brandt brings a perspective no dataset can replicate. Here is what she wants founders building in the Alzheimer's and caregiving space to understand.

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No one sees the caregiver in the room: What Mass General's Katie Brandt wants founders to know

Jun 25, 2026

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No one sees the caregiver in the room: What Mass General's Katie Brandt wants founders to know

For founders building in the Alzheimer's, dementia, and caregiving space, these insights will reframe how you think about your end user.

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StartUp Health Insider | Big news for every StartUp Health subscriber

Jun 24, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | Big news for every StartUp Health subscriber

This one's personal – and it could change how you engage with health innovation.

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