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Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

VP Content, Partner @ StartUp Health

Blog

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Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

Sep 15, 2026

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2 min read

Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

As CEO & Co-founder of Spotlight-AQ, Katharine Barnard-Kelly, PhD, is proving that listening to patients isn't just compassionate care, it's better medicine.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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Vheda Health Lands $47M to Power Outcomes for Health Plans | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 15, 2026

Sep 15, 2026

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2 min read

Vheda Health Lands $47M to Power Outcomes for Health Plans | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 15, 2026

We're excited for StartUp Health community member Vheda Health on securing its first institutional capital to scale outcomes and analytics for hard-to-reach health plan members. The raise headlines a week that also saw Thatch bring in a new $108M round for its health benefits platform, Tandem Health close $100M for its AI medical assistant, and more than a dozen other health innovation rounds in the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | A 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI

Sep 12, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | A 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI

Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap on team over technology, the fastest-growing corner of health AI, and how to actually get funded right now.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap & Unity Stoakes on Investing in the Age of AI-Native Healthcare

Sep 11, 2026

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3 min read

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap & Unity Stoakes on Investing in the Age of AI-Native Healthcare

The 50-year-old firm's healthcare investor on team over technology, the fastest-growing corner of health AI adoption, and what it really takes to get funded right now.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Aidar Health just landed a spot in CMS's new outcomes-based ACCESS program

Sep 9, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Aidar Health just landed a spot in CMS's new outcomes-based ACCESS program

Aidar Health’s CEO on why the mouth may be health tech's richest data source

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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Alan's $550M Megaround Leads a Blockbuster Week in Health Tech Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 8, 2026

Sep 8, 2026

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3 min read

Alan's $550M Megaround Leads a Blockbuster Week in Health Tech Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 8, 2026

Paris-based AI insurer Alan closes one of Europe's largest health tech raises this year, as global funding spans oncology care, wearables, surgical AI, and reproductive diagnostics.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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From Breath to Biomarker: How Aidar Health Is Reimagining Diagnostics with MouthLab

Sep 8, 2026

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2 min read

From Breath to Biomarker: How Aidar Health Is Reimagining Diagnostics with MouthLab

Sathya Elumalai has spent a decade building past the wearable, betting that breath and saliva hold more answers than any wrist-worn sensor.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Your Weekend Listen: 5 podcasts exploring the role of tech in health

Sep 5, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Your Weekend Listen: 5 podcasts exploring the role of tech in health

Five stories, one thread: Using tech and AI to extend human judgment instead of replacing it.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | You’re Invited: Chat with Investor Bob Kocher of Venrock Next Week

Sep 2, 2026

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4 min read

StartUp Health Insider | You’re Invited: Chat with Investor Bob Kocher of Venrock Next Week

Venrock's Bob Kocher joins our next Fireside Chat. Members have a seat in the room.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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Scan.com Closes $220M as Pear Suite Lands a New Grant | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 1, 2026

Sep 1, 2026

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3 min read

Scan.com Closes $220M as Pear Suite Lands a New Grant | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 1, 2026

Two StartUp Health community members headline this week's roundup: Scan.com raised $220M in combined equity and debt to scale its imaging API nationwide, while Pear Suite added fresh Health Net investment to expand community health worker technology across California – plus 11 more raises spanning behavioral health AI, revenue cycle automation, and wellbeing guidance.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

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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
Logan Plaster
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Caregiving Moonshot

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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
Logan Plaster
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Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Meet the doctorpreneur solving his own problem, at scale

Aug 29, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Meet the doctorpreneur solving his own problem, at scale

Inside Avo's growth from founder-led tool to enterprise platform

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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How Avo Is Building the Intelligence Layer Between Doctors and Better Care Decisions

Aug 28, 2026

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2 min read

How Avo Is Building the Intelligence Layer Between Doctors and Better Care Decisions

StartUp Health community member Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, shares an update about how he turned his own burnout into Avo, and what it takes to scale AI-powered clinical decision support after a Series A.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Thought Leadership

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Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap

Aug 26, 2026

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1 min read

Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap on why team beats product as the real moat in health AI and what it takes to get funded right now.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
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Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Bridging Urban and Rural Care: Cityblock to Acquire Homeward Health + $116M Series E

Aug 26, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Bridging Urban and Rural Care: Cityblock to Acquire Homeward Health + $116M Series E

Cityblock's acquisition of Homeward Health pairs urban Medicaid care with rural Medicare Advantage reach.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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

Aug 25, 2026

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1 min read

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
Logan Plaster
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Access to Care Moonshot

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Cityblock Health Headlines a Global Funding Week with $116M Raise and Rural Care Acquisition | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 25, 2026

Aug 25, 2026

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Cityblock Health Headlines a Global Funding Week with $116M Raise and Rural Care Acquisition | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 25, 2026

StartUp Health member Cityblock opens the week with a $116M Series E and an all-stock acquisition of Homeward Health, uniting its urban Medicaid model with rural Medicare Advantage reach – plus more funding news from across the health innovation landscape this week.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | The 9-Year "Overnight" Success Story Behind Pelago

Aug 22, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | The 9-Year "Overnight" Success Story Behind Pelago

Meet Sona, Pelago's new AI behavioral health specialist

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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A 9-Year Overnight Success Story: How Pelago Is Rebuilding Behavioral Health for the AI Era

Aug 21, 2026

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2 min read

A 9-Year Overnight Success Story: How Pelago Is Rebuilding Behavioral Health for the AI Era

Long-time StartUp Health member Dr. Yusuf Sherwani shares the decisions behind a 10x drop in treatment costs, raising $150M, and why he's rebuilding Pelago around AI-powered care

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Oral Health Moonshot

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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
Logan Plaster
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | What Health Innovation’s Sharpest Minds Are Thinking About Right Now

Aug 19, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | What Health Innovation’s Sharpest Minds Are Thinking About Right Now

From AI fatigue to what investors are focused on now, our community's latest conversations cover it all.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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AI-Native Biotech Startup Banks $100M as Health Innovation Funding Rolls On | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 18, 2026

Aug 18, 2026

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3 min read

AI-Native Biotech Startup Banks $100M as Health Innovation Funding Rolls On | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 18, 2026

From foundation models for drug discovery to smart rings that diagnose sleep apnea in three nights, this week's raises span the globe – and the stage.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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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
Logan Plaster
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Inside MEI Micro: The sensor breakthrough behind earlier disease detection

Aug 15, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Inside MEI Micro: The sensor breakthrough behind earlier disease detection

MEI Micro's founder Louis Ross on why precision, not software, may unlock earlier disease detection

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey
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