Logan Plaster

Managing Director, StartUp Health

Access to Care Moonshot

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

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Addiction & Opioid Crisis 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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Thought Leadership

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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Video

Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

Aug 10, 2026

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1 min read

Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

What if the sensor in your wearable is the limiting factor in what it can tell you about your health?

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Access to Care Moonshot

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

Aug 6, 2026

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1 min read

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

General Prognostics provides a non‐invasive wearable that continuously monitors heart‐failure biomarkers using a standard smartwatch, enabling doctors to detect worsening HF weeks early and intervene remotely, improving outcomes and scalability.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Logan Plaster

How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

How Pelago cut addiction treatment costs by 10x – and why AI changes what's next

AHA Ventures' Lisa Suennen on stroke, women's health, and the AI fatigue problem

Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

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