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Nicole Kinsey

Content Director @ StartUp Health

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From Boston to Bengaluru, Health Innovation Draws Global Capital This Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jun 16, 2026

Jun 16, 2026

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From Boston to Bengaluru, Health Innovation Draws Global Capital This Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jun 16, 2026

Companies across the US, UK, Europe, and India closed health innovation rounds this week, led by a $50M seed for biological AI and a $35M Series A putting an AI advocate in every American's corner.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | The Civic Health Forum agenda is live. Final call for tickets.

Jun 13, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | The Civic Health Forum agenda is live. Final call for tickets.

Speakers from JAMA, CDC, Mt. Sinai, Stanford, and Weill Cornell, plus founders across our health moonshots.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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From Founder to Commercial Leader: Jill Angelo on What It Really Takes to Build in Women’s Health

Jun 11, 2026

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From Founder to Commercial Leader: Jill Angelo on What It Really Takes to Build in Women’s Health

Oura's VP of Women's Health and Commercial Partnerships joined StartUp Health for a candid fireside chat on why women's health has finally grown up as a category, what it takes to build clinical credibility through partnerships, and the hard-won founder lesson she wishes she had learned earlier.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Women’s Health Moonshot

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Building women's health from the inside out: Fireside Chat highlights with Jill Angelo of Oura

Jun 11, 2026

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Building women's health from the inside out: Fireside Chat highlights with Jill Angelo of Oura

A curated look at key insights from our live member fireside chat with Oura's VP of Women's Health and Commercial Partnerships.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | From MRI data to AI reasoning: These community members are building what's next

Jun 10, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | From MRI data to AI reasoning: These community members are building what's next

This week's featured founders are tackling some of healthcare's hardest problems. And we’ve extended the discount so you can meet more leaders next week at Civic Health Forum.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

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Longevity, Cardiometabolic Care, and AI Innovations Power Another Busy Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jun 9, 2026

Jun 9, 2026

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3 min read

Longevity, Cardiometabolic Care, and AI Innovations Power Another Busy Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jun 9, 2026

From a $435M longevity biotech raise in South San Francisco to insulin delivery in Switzerland to AI physiotherapy clinics scaling across the NHS to a personal digital twin platform in South Korea, this week's digital health funding spans continents and categories – with strong signals in scientific AI, precision cardiometabolic care, and healthcare workforce innovation, including a $15M raise for Civic Health Forum featured guest Ilant Health.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

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Imaginostics Is Unlocking What MRI Has Never Been Able to Measure

Jun 9, 2026

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1 min read

Imaginostics Is Unlocking What MRI Has Never Been Able to Measure

Imaginostics is transforming MRI technology to provide precise vascular health insights across the body, focusing first on brain and cardiovascular health.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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The Brain Behind the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

Jun 8, 2026

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1 min read

The Brain Behind the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

In under five minutes, cliexa CEO Mehmet Kazgan explains why clinical reasoning is the missing layer in healthcare AI, and why the moment to act is now.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Use AI. Don't let it use you: A new chat with Esther Dyson on being human in an age of artificial scale

Jun 6, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Use AI. Don't let it use you: A new chat with Esther Dyson on being human in an age of artificial scale

Esther’s fresh and thoughtful fireside chat is worth your time. Plus: she'll be at Civic Health Forum on June 16.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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More Time to Be Human: Esther Dyson on AI, Human Limits, and the Healthcare We’re Not Building

Jun 5, 2026

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5 min read

More Time to Be Human: Esther Dyson on AI, Human Limits, and the Healthcare We’re Not Building

In a wide-ranging community fireside chat, investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member Esther Dyson made the case for limits as a feature, not a flaw, and pushed health innovators to ask harder questions about what they're actually building.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Meet the Civic Health Forum Speakers, Tickets Just $50 This Week

Jun 3, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Meet the Civic Health Forum Speakers, Tickets Just $50 This Week

Hospital systems, government, investors, academia, and founders: A first look at the lineup, plus a flash discount for the Insider community.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

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AI and Outcomes Intelligence Headline a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of June 2, 2026

Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

AI and Outcomes Intelligence Headline a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of June 2, 2026

From fertility financing and brain mapping to oncology AI and glucose-informed weight management, this week's deals reflect a market doubling down on measurable outcomes and clinical-grade data.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Women’s Health Moonshot

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How MUTU System Is Solving the Quiet Crisis in Women's Pelvic Health

Jun 1, 2026

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1 min read

How MUTU System Is Solving the Quiet Crisis in Women's Pelvic Health

MUTU System founder Wendy Powell on the stats medicine keeps ignoring and what it actually takes to fix pelvic health at scale.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | SynchNeuro’s noninvasive glucose monitor is hidden behind your ear

May 30, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | SynchNeuro’s noninvasive glucose monitor is hidden behind your ear

Neurosurgeon Dr. Casey Halpern of SynchNeuro on what's changed since we last spoke – and what's coming next.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

May 27, 2026

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SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

StartUp Health community member Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, has spent years building toward a single audacious goal: a brain-powered, noninvasive glucose monitor worn discreetly behind the ear. With a working prototype now in internal testing and a clinical study weeks from launch, that goal has never been closer to becoming a product you can actually buy.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

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What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

May 27, 2026

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1 min read

What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, shares why the brain is the most powerful glucose monitor we've never used -- and what a working prototype, a launching clinical study, and a 2027 commercial target mean for the 50 million Americans living with prediabetes.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | ▶️ Hard-won advice from founders who've been through it

May 27, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | ▶️ Hard-won advice from founders who've been through it

Three candid conversations on pivoting, building credibility, and staying the course.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

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AI Agents and Precision Tools Accelerate Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 26, 2026

May 26, 2026

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2 min read

AI Agents and Precision Tools Accelerate Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 26, 2026

From enterprise AI platforms commanding unicorn valuations to seed bets on brain-computer interfaces, RNA models, and infection prediction, this week's global digital health funding reflects a field increasingly defined by AI execution at every layer of care. Here's everything that moved the needle this week.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | The Medicare playbook, straight from CMS 📖 ▶️ 🎧

May 23, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | The Medicare playbook, straight from CMS 📖 ▶️ 🎧

CMS Deputy Administrator Abe Sutton joined 50 StartUp Health community members for a candid fireside chat on the future of Medicare payment.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

Credibility Is a Ladder: Richard Hanbury’s Advice for Health Founders

May 21, 2026

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1 min read

Credibility Is a Ladder: Richard Hanbury’s Advice for Health Founders

StartUp Health community member Richard Hanbury of Sana Health shares a hard-earned lesson for founders: in healthcare, you cannot jump to proof, you have to build it one rung at a time.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | From Cardiometabolic to Everything Chronic: 9amHealth's Fresh $26M Boost

May 20, 2026

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StartUp Health Insider | From Cardiometabolic to Everything Chronic: 9amHealth's Fresh $26M Boost

The biggest week in AI drug discovery topped by $2.1B for Isomorphic Labs – plus StartUp Health member 9amHealth closed a $26M Series B to expand beyond cardiometabolic care.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

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9amHealth's $26M Series B Expands a Proven Cardiometabolic Model | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 19, 2026

May 19, 2026

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9amHealth's $26M Series B Expands a Proven Cardiometabolic Model | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 19, 2026

StartUp Health community member 9amHealth closes a $26M Series B to extend its AI-enabled virtual specialty care platform beyond cardiometabolic health – while a $2.1B raise for Isomorphic Labs leads one of the most active global digital health funding weeks in recent memory.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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What CMS Wants Health Tech Founders to Know About the Future of Medicare

May 18, 2026

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3 min read

What CMS Wants Health Tech Founders to Know About the Future of Medicare

In an interactive fireside chat with 50 StartUp Health community members, CMS Deputy Administrator Abe Sutton shared his unfiltered view of where federal healthcare payment is heading and what it means for technology innovators building in the Medicare space.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

CMS Pays for Outcomes, Not Just Services | Fireside Chat with Abe Sutton, CMS Deputy Administrator

May 18, 2026

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2 min read

CMS Pays for Outcomes, Not Just Services | Fireside Chat with Abe Sutton, CMS Deputy Administrator

The federal government is sending a clear signal to health tech founders: if your business is built on delivering better clinical outcomes, there has never been a more direct path into Medicare.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Resolving up to 80% of health needs before insurance is triggered 🎧

May 16, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Resolving up to 80% of health needs before insurance is triggered 🎧

EqualityMD’s pre-insurance strategy reduces care avoidance and lowers healthcare costs.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey
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