The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
The most valuable moment in healthcare is the one before the crisis. A watch worn without stigma. A 30-second scan on a phone. A one-minute breath test in a nursing home. Across the StartUp Health community, these 25 companies are moving care earlier, from Journey and UnaliWear to Dentistry.One, CarePredict, Aidar Health, and Babyscripts. They are pairing AI-powered early signals with the clinicians, coaches, and caregivers who keep care deeply human, and bringing the evidence to show it works.
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🚀 Find Your Mission-Aligned Community
StartUp Health is bringing our video team to HLTH in Las Vegas on Nov 15-18 to capture stories of progress from the StartUp Health community and the broader health innovation ecosystem. From founders scaling care to clinicians and leaders reimagining the system, we’re sitting down with the people building what’s next and sharing their work with our global audience.
We have a handful of interview packages left. Each includes a professionally produced video conversation spread across the StartUp Health media ecosystem. If you’re advancing a health moonshot and want to share your story with the world, we’d love to hear from you.
A $104M brain-implant round out of Shanghai leads a busy week in health innovation funding, with fresh capital for clinical data, wearable cardiac therapy, hospital margin recovery, and AI-driven drug discovery from Casablanca to Basel to Dallas.
📈 See Who Raised
On Jan 12, 2027, StartUp Health community members, investors, clinicians, and partners will gather in San Francisco for Apollo House, an invite-only evening exploring AI, prevention, and the next Health Moonshots. Last January, the room was standing-room only, and Vinod Khosla joined Unity Stoakes for a fireside chat on building trust in healthcare. Space is limited.
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Wisdom from Health Transformers
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Health & Protection
Upcoming Health Innovation Events
Expert AMA w/ NYU Langone's Dr. Nick Genes
StartUp Health Members Only
Nov 12
Alzheimer's Insights Summit 4
Co-hosted by the AD Data Initiative, StartUp Health, the Clinical Trial Recruitment Lab - USC Schaeffer Center, and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation's Diagnostics Accelerator (ADDF DxA)
Boston, MA
Nov 16
HLTH
Meet with StartUp Health: Schedule an Interview
Las Vegas, NV
Nov 15-18
Fireside Chat w/ Mount Sinai's Chief AI Officer Dr. Girish Nadkarni
StartUp Health Members Only
Dec 2
Fireside Chat w/ Norwest Venture Partners' Lisa Wu
StartUp Health Members Only
Dec 16
StartUp Health Presents Apollo House
Invitation Only: Request an Invite
Jan 12
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