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Oct 14, 2026
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A weather forecast for your blood sugar
Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, on why the brain is the most powerful glucose monitor we’ve never used – and why the signal was there all along.
Insights
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Oct 13, 2026
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Robotic Microsurgery, a Healthcare Store, and AI Agents Lead a Busy Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Oct 13, 2026
Medical Microinstruments and General Medicine each raised more than $100M, while AI-powered compliance, cell therapy manufacturing, and women’s health platforms drew rounds of their own across the US, UK, Europe, and India.
Blog
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Oct 12, 2026
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Rallying the 30 Million: How Mitul Desai Is Empowering Family Caregivers to Manage Complex Care
By combining the human empathy of expert coaches with the precision of AI, StartUp Health community member Mitul Desai of The Care Hack is building the support system cognitive caregivers have never had, equipping them to manage their loved one’s condition with confidence, and turning decades of research into real-world results.
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Oct 9, 2026
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2 min read
UnaliWear Built a Watch That Detects Falls Without the Stigma
This four-time Wirecutter top pick solves the problem legacy medical alert pendants never could: getting people to actually wear it.
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Oct 6, 2026
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6 min read
A Deep Dive with MEI Micro’s Founder: Bringing Navigation-Grade Precision to Health & Medicine
MEI Micro, led by CEO & Founder Louis Ross, is on a mission to democratize high-accuracy motion sensing for life science applications. The technology, developed over a decade, is now being commercialized as the company begins shipping its first sample products to key partners, licensees, and customers. This includes companies in the medtech, healthcare, and sports medicine fields.
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Oct 5, 2026
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Democratizing Precision: A Sensor Pioneer’s Mission to Transform Brain Health & Sports Medicine
In this deep dive interview, Unity Stoakes sits down with MEI Micro CEO & Founder Louis Ross – a former investment strategist turned health innovator – to hear how his team built the world’s first navigation-grade, chip-scale accelerometer.
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Oct 2, 2026
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3 min read
Venrock's Bob Kocher on the Real Test for Investable Healthcare Companies
In a Fireside Chat with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes, the Venrock partner and physician makes the case that AI will improve healthcare without making it cheaper, and explains the one question he asks every founder before anything else.
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Sep 29, 2026
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2 min read
After 11 Years and 11 Million Lives, Journey's Founder Says Mental Healthcare Must Get Proactive
Stephen Sokoler built Journey to catch employees before they break – now he's betting the next era of workplace mental health is preventive, not reactive.
Insights
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Sep 29, 2026
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3 min read
Ortet, OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience, EliseAI, and Enveda Headline a Mega Week in Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 29, 2026
A $500M commitment to launch Ortet, a frontier AI lab for health, tops a week with seven nine-figure deals across patient-centered foundation models, AI operations automation, AI drug discovery, clinical search, brain-computer interfaces, pharmacy benefits, and biological AI. Beyond the mega-deals, investors backed microbiome testing, cardiac imaging AI, surgical training, post-acute care automation, midwife-led maternal care, and NHS primary care tools across the US, UK, France, Israel, Portugal, Japan, Australia, and India.
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Sep 28, 2026
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2 min read
Shining a Light on Alzheimer's: Guillaume Blivet's Mission to Help the Brain Fight Back
As Chief Innovation Officer & Co-founder of REGEnLIFE, Guillaume Blivet, MPH, is advancing a non-invasive light therapy that targets both the brain and the gut, with a pivotal Alzheimer's trial underway and a new clinical partnership with the Hospices Civils de Lyon.
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Sep 22, 2026
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3 min read
Mega-Rounds Anchor a 28-Deal Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 22, 2026
A $600M raise for Angle Health and a $340M round for Heidi top a week that stretched from San Francisco to Shanghai, Melbourne to Cairo, with 28 deals spanning benefits tech, AI diagnostics, women's health, and clinical infrastructure.
