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“While my brother had nurses and doctors, we as caregivers had no one.” For over 20 years, StartUp Health community member Mitul Desai of The Care Hack has cared for his brother, one of more than 30 million family members quietly holding the U.S. healthcare system together as cognitive caregivers. In this personal Q&A, Mitul shares in his own words how that experience led him to build the training, coaching, and community these families never had, alongside co-founder Eli Shalenberg, MD, a community psychiatrist. With a McLean Hospital partnership and pilots turning into multi-year provider contracts, The Care Hack is scaling what research has shown works for decades.
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"It's a massively expanding ecosystem of awesome!"
~ Todd Park, Co-founder, Devoted Health
Fresh off the close of $555M in Series G primary funding, Ed and Todd Park of Devoted Health (a StartUp Health portfolio company) will sit down with us next week for a Fireside Chat to reflect on how they’ve grown into one of the most closely watched names in health tech. Attendees can expect a candid conversation covering how to scale in a heavily regulated market, the role of AI in care coordination and model design, and what it takes to sustain trust with an older adult population over time.
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Two companies each cleared $100M this week, one in robotic microsurgery and one rethinking the healthcare store. Behind them, AI agents, compliance tools, and glucose sensors pulled in big rounds from investors in a busy global healthtech funding week.
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“It has been such a phenomenal thing, and that’s from me, a serial entrepreneur. StartUp Health has helped us with fundraising, our messaging, our strategies, and branding,” says Jean Anne Booth, CEO & Co-founder of UnaliWear. Members like Jean Anne are leading startups with breakthrough technology-driven solutions for the world’s biggest health challenges. If you’re mission-driven, collaborative, and ready to contribute as much as you gain, you might be the perfect fit.
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