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Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

VP Content, Partner @ StartUp Health

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What makes a pitch land? Lisa Suennen answers

Oct 31, 2026

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3 min read

What makes a pitch land? Lisa Suennen answers

AHA Ventures’ managing partner on fundraising, AI fatigue, and the one thing she says matters more than your deck.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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Inside the Room with Lisa Suennen: What 35 Years of Investing in Heart and Brain Health Has Taught Her

Oct 30, 2026

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2 min read

Inside the Room with Lisa Suennen: What 35 Years of Investing in Heart and Brain Health Has Taught Her

AHA Ventures' managing partner joined StartUp Health's member community for an Expert AMA – here's a preview of what she shared.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Four Doctors Who Stopped Waiting for the System to Change

Oct 28, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Four Doctors Who Stopped Waiting for the System to Change

What happens when the people closest to patients turn clinical frustration into companies.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Insights

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Cancer AI, Brain Implants, and Benefits Tech Power a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Oct 27, 2026

Oct 27, 2026

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2 min read

Cancer AI, Brain Implants, and Benefits Tech Power a Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Oct 27, 2026

Nearly $550M flowed into health innovation this week, from AI-enabled oncology drug development to brain implants, tech-enabled health insurance, respiratory therapy, and rural care. Companies across the US, Brazil, India, Europe, Asia, and Africa raised rounds. Here is who raised and who backed them.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Video

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The Preventive Health Platform for a New Era of Cardiometabolic Care

Oct 27, 2026

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1 min read

The Preventive Health Platform for a New Era of Cardiometabolic Care

Doctorpreneur Natalie Davis, MD, of PreventScripts is helping primary care meet metabolic risk earlier, with personalized interventions that continue between visits. Recorded at HLTH 2024 – we’re bringing a film team to HLTH 2026 and scheduling interviews now with leaders across the health ecosystem.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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Don’t Complain Unless You Have a Solution

Oct 26, 2026

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1 min read

Don’t Complain Unless You Have a Solution

StartUp Health community member Dr. Ian Madom, CEO & Founder of Mocingbird, shares the lesson from his physician father that shaped how he builds: if you see a problem in healthcare, start fixing it.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Preparing for an Exit: Relationships Come First

Oct 24, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Preparing for an Exit: Relationships Come First

Validic co-founder Drew Schiller on black swan events, building your network early, and what AI can’t replace in healthcare.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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The Virtual Hospital: 20 Years. 8 Specialties. 50 States.

Oct 23, 2026

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1 min read

The Virtual Hospital: 20 Years. 8 Specialties. 50 States.

Access TeleCare CEO Josh DeTillio on physician shortages, hospital closures, and why the virtual hospital model is already proving its worth across all 50 states.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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What It Really Takes to Sell a Digital Health Company

Oct 23, 2026

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6 min read

What It Really Takes to Sell a Digital Health Company

Validic co-founder Drew Schiller on the black swan events that nearly derailed him, why relationships beat bankers, and what AI changes, and doesn't change, about building something worth buying.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

7 StartUp Health Members Advance to the Finals of the 2026 Digital Health & AI Awards

Oct 22, 2026

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3 min read

7 StartUp Health Members Advance to the Finals of the 2026 Digital Health & AI Awards

From senior care wearables to bedside ultrasound and specialty care for community hospitals, seven StartUp Health community members advance to the finals of the 2026 Digital Health & AI Awards.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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Mark Edwards Has Spent a Career Chasing the Next Category. Now It’s Brain Health.

Oct 22, 2026

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2 min read

Mark Edwards Has Spent a Career Chasing the Next Category. Now It’s Brain Health.

StartUp Health community member Mark Edwards, CEO & Co-founder of ViewMind, is bringing objective, eye-based measurement to cognitive health – and advancing the Alzheimer’s Moonshot along the way.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Care Is Moving Earlier. Here’s Who’s Leading It.

Oct 21, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Care Is Moving Earlier. Here’s Who’s Leading It.

These StartUp Health community members are bringing care closer and earlier.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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MedHaul Wins First Place in WellWithAll's $1 Million Prize | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Oct 20, 2026

Oct 20, 2026

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3 min read

MedHaul Wins First Place in WellWithAll's $1 Million Prize | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Oct 20, 2026

StartUp Health company MedHaul takes home a $500K top prize for AI-powered medical transportation. Additionally, 26 rounds span family caregiving, Medicare AI, surgical technology, and women’s health, with companies from the US, India, the UK, Israel, Brazil, Canada, and the UAE.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Alzheimer’s research is at an inflection point

Oct 17, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Alzheimer’s research is at an inflection point

Gates Ventures’ Dr. Gregory Moore on AI, data sharing, and the road ahead. Join us next month in Boston to go deeper.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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AI Is Only as Good as the Data: Dr. Greg Moore on Accelerating Alzheimer's Research

Oct 16, 2026

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4 min read

AI Is Only as Good as the Data: Dr. Greg Moore on Accelerating Alzheimer's Research

Gregory Moore, MD, PhD, Senior Adviser to Gates Ventures on the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative, explains why AI tools are only as useful as the harmonized, accessible data behind them. He also shares what the Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize revealed about where breakthroughs may come from, why he believes the science has never been more compelling, and extends an invitation to join us at the Alzheimer's Insight Summit 4 during CTAD.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Testimonial

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Epicured’s Richard Bennett on Why Food as Medicine Needs a Big Tent

Oct 16, 2026

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1 min read

Epicured’s Richard Bennett on Why Food as Medicine Needs a Big Tent

StartUp Health community member Richard Bennett of Epicured shares his advice for fellow entrepreneurs and why collaboration across the Food is Medicine Health Moonshot Community keeps the hard days worth it.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Thought Leadership

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The Science Has Never Been More Compelling: Inside the Data Initiative Powering Alzheimer's AI

Oct 14, 2026

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1 min read

The Science Has Never Been More Compelling: Inside the Data Initiative Powering Alzheimer's AI

Gregory Moore, MD, PhD, Senior Adviser to Gates Ventures on the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative, shares why compute has finally caught up to the complexity of biology. He also explains how the free AD Workbench is opening Alzheimer's data to researchers worldwide, what two $1M AI Prize winners from adjacent fields reveal about where breakthroughs may come from, and extends an invite to next month’s Alzheimer's Insight Summit 4.

Nicole Kinsey
Logan Plaster
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Video

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A Weather Forecast for Your Blood Sugar

Oct 14, 2026

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1 min read

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.

Nicole Kinsey
Unity Stoakes
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Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | This Founder Is Turning 20 Years of Cognitive Caregiving into a Health Moonshot

Oct 14, 2026

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3 min read

StartUp Health Insider | This Founder Is Turning 20 Years of Cognitive Caregiving into a Health Moonshot

Mitul Desai of The Care Hack is using his decades of personal experience to build the support system cognitive caregivers have never had.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Access to Care Moonshot

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Better Care Decisions, Built by a Doctor Who Lives the Problem

Oct 13, 2026

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1 min read

Better Care Decisions, Built by a Doctor Who Lives the Problem

Dr. Yair Saperstein, CEO & Co-founder of Avo, on turning the overwhelm of life as a hospitalist into an AI-powered intelligence layer that helps clinicians make better care decisions

Nicole Kinsey
Logan Plaster
Nicole Kinsey, +1

Insights

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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

Oct 13, 2026

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2 min read

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.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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Rallying the 30 Million: How Mitul Desai Is Empowering Family Caregivers to Manage Complex Care

Oct 12, 2026

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7 min read

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.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Why the Best Medical Alert Is the One People Actually Wear

Oct 10, 2026

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2 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Why the Best Medical Alert Is the One People Actually Wear

Her mom said "I'm not wearing it" – so Jean Anne Booth built a better solution. UnaliWear’s Kanega Watch is designed to extend independence with dignity and has earned recognition and trust.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Blog

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UnaliWear Built a Watch That Detects Falls Without the Stigma

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.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

Newsletter

StartUp Health Insider | Devoted's latest $555M raise + Vitalize’s Series A for hospital “air traffic control”

Oct 7, 2026

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4 min read

StartUp Health Insider | Devoted's latest $555M raise + Vitalize’s Series A for hospital “air traffic control”

Two community members lead this week's global funding round-up.

Nicole Kinsey
Nicole Kinsey

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