The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
Congratulations to the 15 StartUp Health community members named to TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026, a list compiled with Statista based on financial performance, reputation, and online engagement. The honorees span nearly every Health Moonshot, from Access to Care and Women's Health to Healthy Longevity, Caregiving, and Mental & Behavioral Health. Cala Health, Cityblock, and Particle Health earned TIME's top "Outstanding" rating, and several honorees, including Babyscripts and Enlace Health, have been in our community since 2013. Get to know each company and the Health Transformers leading them.
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In a world where AI is making every tool a commodity, trust has become the great differentiator. That's the idea behind The Moonshot Table, StartUp Health's new founder salon series bringing together the founders, funders, and health system executives shaping the future of health. Dinners are the new trade show: small, facilitator-led evenings designed around genuine human connection.
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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 – proof that health innovation funding shows no signs of slowing down as we head into Q4.
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StartUp Health community member Katharine Barnard-Kelly, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of Spotlight-AQ, has spent her career on a simple but powerful idea: patients need to feel heard to get better care. Her platform maps the biomedical, psychological, and social needs of diabetes patients before every clinic visit, and the results speak for themselves, from FDA qualification for a first-of-its-kind outcome measure to a published pivotal RCT, partnerships with Dexcom, Stanford Medicine, and Atrium Health, and back-to-back awards including the 2024 ADA Innovation Challenge.
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With more than 2,500 videos, 11,000+ subscribers, and nearly a million views on YouTube, our video channel spotlights Health Transformers in action, showcasing how the right mindset, moonshot vision, and the spirit of an entrepreneur make anything possible. Recent videos feature updates from Journey, UnaliWear, Mediktor, Dentistry.One, Aidar Health, Avo, Pelago, and many more.
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Joshua DeTillio, CEO, and Chris Gallagher, MD, CSO & Founder of Access TeleCare, on being a founding member of ATA Action’s Cross-State Care Coalition to advance bipartisan federal legislation modernizing clinician licensure across state lines.
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Brand Newland, PharmD, CEO & Co-founder of Goldfinch Health, on the release of the company’s 2026 Billion Pill Pledge Annual Report.
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Erica Plybeah, CEO & Founder of MedHaul, on being named as finalist in the $1M WellWithAll Prize AI health innovation competition.
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Peter Njongwe, CEO & Co-founder of Oben Health, on winning a $50k grant in the CTIA Wireless Foundation Awards Catalyst program.
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Guillaume Blivet, MPH, CIO & Co-founder of REGEnLIFE, on the publication of a pilot clinical trial in Frontiers in Neurology, investigating the company’s RGn550 device..
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