Logan Plaster

Managing Director, StartUp Health

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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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Caregiving 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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Access to Care Moonshot

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

Aug 25, 2026

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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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Oral Health Moonshot

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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

Access to Care Moonshot

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.

Nicole Kinsey, +1

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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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

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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

Why Employee Mental Health Benefits Need to Get Proactive

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

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

How Dentistry.One is turning every doctor's visit into a dental referral

Aidar Health's MouthLab: Turning breath into a window into the body

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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