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Nicole Kinsey

Content Director @ StartUp Health

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Meet a Few of the Health Transformers Presenting at Civic Health Forum

May 2, 2026

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3 min read

Meet a Few of the Health Transformers Presenting at Civic Health Forum

A first look at a handful of the founders who will be showcasing in June at the Civic Health Forum.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Cala’s Wearable Neuromodulation Gets Additional $50M Boost + FDA Clearance

Apr 29, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Cala’s Wearable Neuromodulation Gets Additional $50M Boost + FDA Clearance

Millions of Americans with essential tremor and Parkinson's get new hope as Cala Health secures $50M to scale FDA-cleared wearable therapy.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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Cala Health Secures $50M to Scale Wearable Tremor Therapy | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 28, 2026

Apr 28, 2026

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3 min read

Cala Health Secures $50M to Scale Wearable Tremor Therapy | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 28, 2026

StartUp Health community member Cala Health headlines this week's funding with a $50M growth round from Trinity Capital, building on FDA clearance for their next-gen tremor therapy device and new Medicare coverage. Plus deals across revenue cycle management, AI precision oncology, dermatology robotics, and more.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | What if your primary care doctor could rule out Alzheimer's today?

Apr 26, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | What if your primary care doctor could rule out Alzheimer's today?

Cx Precision Medicine is rethinking the first step in neurodegenerative disease diagnosis.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Caregiving Moonshot

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How Pivoting from Fundraising to Customer Development Kept Avanlee Christine's Company Alive

Apr 24, 2026

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1 min read

How Pivoting from Fundraising to Customer Development Kept Avanlee Christine's Company Alive

StartUp Health community member Avanlee Christine, CEO & Co-founder of Avanlee Care, shares how a pivot from fundraising to customer development unlocked product traction, investor interest, and partnerships with innovative health plans.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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Cx Precision Medicine Is Solving the First Step in Alzheimer's Diagnosis | Health Moonshot Update

Apr 23, 2026

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6 min read

Cx Precision Medicine Is Solving the First Step in Alzheimer's Diagnosis | Health Moonshot Update

For millions of Americans worried about memory loss, getting answers takes years. Cx Precision Medicine is changing that with a simple blood test that helps primary care physicians rule out Alzheimer's before the diagnostic maze even begins.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

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Why Alzheimer's Diagnosis Takes 3.5 Years – And How a Simple Blood Test Could Change That

Apr 23, 2026

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1 min read

Why Alzheimer's Diagnosis Takes 3.5 Years – And How a Simple Blood Test Could Change That

Cx Precision Medicine CEO Danguole Altman explains how a blood-based triage tool for primary care could compress the neurodegenerative disease diagnostic journey and unlock earlier, more effective intervention.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Access to Care Moonshot

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Just Keep Going: The Real Lesson Behind a Decade of Building inHealth

Apr 22, 2026

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1 min read

Just Keep Going: The Real Lesson Behind a Decade of Building inHealth

StartUp Health community members Aubrey Sawyer and Michelle Alencar, PhD, share the hard-earned lessons behind building a clinically grounded health coaching platform over nearly a decade — from evidence and iteration to perseverance, partnerships, and knowing when to keep going.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Inside Cleveland Clinic Innovations (+ AMA Next Week)

Apr 22, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Inside Cleveland Clinic Innovations (+ AMA Next Week)

Jerry Wilmink, PhD, has been on both sides of health innovation. Now he's opening the door from the inside.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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AI and Global Reach Power a Big Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 21, 2026

Apr 21, 2026

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2 min read

AI and Global Reach Power a Big Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 21, 2026

From AI-driven medtech sales intelligence and biotech infrastructure to fertility care, behavioral health, and bone density devices, this week's digital health funding spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia – signaling sustained global momentum in health innovation.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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What It Takes to Turn Health Innovation Into Impact, According to Cleveland Clinic's Jerry Wilmink

Apr 20, 2026

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3 min read

What It Takes to Turn Health Innovation Into Impact, According to Cleveland Clinic's Jerry Wilmink

The former startup founder and current Director of Business Development at Cleveland Clinic Innovations shares his thoughts on AI, augmented reality, and why the best partnerships start early.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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Rethinking Healthcare Before Insurance Is Even Used: The EqualityMD Model

Apr 20, 2026

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1 min read

Rethinking Healthcare Before Insurance Is Even Used: The EqualityMD Model

StartUp Health community member Justin Ayars of EqualityMD shares how an insurance-free, culturally competent model is reducing costs, rebuilding trust, and challenging how Americans think about healthcare.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Solving Silent Pain: Millions of Women Are Told to Just Cope. She Disagreed.

Apr 18, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Solving Silent Pain: Millions of Women Are Told to Just Cope. She Disagreed.

Wendy Powell built MUTU System to fix what medicine kept ignoring. Here's what NHS-validated outcomes and employer adoption look like in practice.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Caregiving Moonshot

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Inside the Caregiving Moonshot: Christopher Jue's Health Transformer Experience

Apr 16, 2026

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1 min read

Inside the Caregiving Moonshot: Christopher Jue's Health Transformer Experience

What happens when founders, operators, and advocates across caregiving come together? Christopher Jue of CAREgivers Insight reflects on the power of the Caregiving Moonshot to connect what has long been disconnected.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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From Flow State to FDA: How Sana Health Is Rewiring Pain and PTSD Care

Apr 15, 2026

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1 min read

From Flow State to FDA: How Sana Health Is Rewiring Pain and PTSD Care

StartUp Health community member Richard Hanbury of Sana Health shares how a personal breakthrough in pain led to the world’s first approved audiovisual neuromodulation device, and why building medical credibility is a step-by-step journey.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Digital Health Validation Is Getting a Reboot

Apr 15, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Digital Health Validation Is Getting a Reboot

Robin Roberts explains how datosX is making validation faster, cheaper, and smarter.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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Women's Health and Longevity Shape a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 14, 2026

Apr 14, 2026

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8 min read

Women's Health and Longevity Shape a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 14, 2026

From Medicare navigation and prescription digital therapeutics to maternal care, ovarian cancer diagnostics, and longevity EHR infrastructure, this week's deals span the US, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Southeast Asia — reflecting sustained investor conviction across the full arc of health innovation.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Healthcare's Old Liabilities Are Now Its Greatest AI Advantages

Apr 11, 2026

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8 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Healthcare's Old Liabilities Are Now Its Greatest AI Advantages

a16z's Julie Yoo on infinite healthcare, compound businesses, and why now is the best moment in history to build in health tech.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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What the Age of Superintelligence Means for Health Tech: A Conversation with Julie Yoo of a16z

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

What the Age of Superintelligence Means for Health Tech: A Conversation with Julie Yoo of a16z

In a fireside chat held for members of the StartUp Health community, a16z General Partner Julie Yoo shared her unfiltered view of a watershed moment in health innovation, from compound business models and shifting investor expectations to the case for infinite healthcare.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Thought Leadership

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Rethinking the Rules: Julie Yoo of a16z on Infinite Healthcare, Compound Businesses, and the New Investor Playbook

Apr 10, 2026

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1 min read

Rethinking the Rules: Julie Yoo of a16z on Infinite Healthcare, Compound Businesses, and the New Investor Playbook

One of healthcare's most influential investors sits down with the StartUp Health community to challenge conventional startup wisdom, make the case for infinite healthcare, and explain why the rules that governed digital health company building no longer apply.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Thought Leadership

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Healthcare Will Benefit Most from AI. Here's Why. | Julie Yoo of a16z

Apr 9, 2026

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2 min read

Healthcare Will Benefit Most from AI. Here's Why. | Julie Yoo of a16z

a16z General Partner Julie Yoo joins StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes for a wide-ranging conversation with an interactive audience of StartUp Health community members on why healthcare is positioned to benefit from AI more than any other industry, and what that means for the founders building right now.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | 🧠 Imaginostics Is Making the Invisible Visible in Vascular Health

Apr 8, 2026

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9 min read

StartUp Health Insider | 🧠 Imaginostics Is Making the Invisible Visible in Vascular Health

FDA Breakthrough Designation. A Siemens partnership. A 96-patient study. Imaginostics is closer than ever to the bedside.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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Imaginostics Is Making the Invisible Visible in Vascular Health | Health Moonshot Update

Apr 7, 2026

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7 min read

Imaginostics Is Making the Invisible Visible in Vascular Health | Health Moonshot Update

After eight years of translating a physics breakthrough into a clinical product, StartUp Health community members Valerie Gharagouzloo, CEO & Co-founder, and Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, Chief Science Officer & Co-founder of Imaginostics, are at an inflection point. With FDA Breakthrough Designation secured, a commercialization partnership with Siemens underway, and a 96-patient biomarker study now in motion, Imaginostics is closing the distance between laboratory invention and bedside impact.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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AI-Powered Brain Health, Insurance Tech, and Robotics Fuel a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 7, 2026

Apr 7, 2026

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6 min read

AI-Powered Brain Health, Insurance Tech, and Robotics Fuel a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Apr 7, 2026

From Shanghai to Seoul, Austin to Louvain-la-Neuve, this week's digital health funding spans brain-machine interfaces, retinal AI diagnostics, neurological disorder detection, and the infrastructure layer powering next-generation health insurance – a wide-ranging week with neurotech at its center.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

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The New Data Layer in MRI: Valerie and Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, of Imaginostics on Building a One-of-a-Kind Vascular Health Platform

Apr 7, 2026

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1 min read

The New Data Layer in MRI: Valerie and Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, of Imaginostics on Building a One-of-a-Kind Vascular Health Platform

From FDA Breakthrough Designation to a partnership with Siemens, Imaginostics is moving fast, and this conversation explains exactly why their technology has no comparable alternative on the market.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
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