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More Than a Dozen StartUp Health Members Selected as Quarterfinalists in the Digital Health & AI Awards

Oct 1, 2026

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More Than a Dozen StartUp Health Members Selected as Quarterfinalists in the Digital Health & AI Awards

Recognized across caregiving, women's health, mental health, cardiometabolic care, and civic health, these StartUp Health community members are showing how earlier, more connected care is being built.

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15 StartUp Health Member Companies Honored on TIME's List of the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026

Sep 24, 2026

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6 min read

15 StartUp Health Member Companies Honored on TIME's List of the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026

From virtual specialty care in rural hospitals to wearable tremor therapy and national imaging networks, these long-time Health Transformers are showing what it looks like when digital tools and deeply human care scale together.

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Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Closing the Referral Gap: How Dentistry.One Is Bringing Preventive Dental Care to Where Patients Already Are

Long-time StartUp Health community member Brant Herman, founder of MouthWatch and Dentistry.One, is building the bridge between medical visits and dental care that too many patients fall through.

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Sep 18, 2026

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How Mediktor Is Building Trust Into AI-Powered Triage

CEO & Co-founder Cristian Pascual shares why healthcare needs a professional AI tool – not a general one – and why Mediktor's next milestone is a government-wide agreement.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Why Digital Health Founders Should Stop Worrying If They Are “AI Enough”

Aug 24, 2026

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3 min read

Why Digital Health Founders Should Stop Worrying If They Are “AI Enough”

Blake Walker, CEO of Inbox Health, says the "AI enough" question is the wrong one – what matters is whether you own the workflow, the data, and the moat that makes you hard to replace.

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Thought Leadership

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

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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.

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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.

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How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

Aug 14, 2026

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1 min read

How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

Dr. Yair Saperstein, CEO & Co-founder of Avo, on why he built an AI decision-support layer for the exact problem that was burning him out as a hospitalist

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MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine

Aug 14, 2026

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1 min read

MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine

Louis Ross, MEI Micro's founder, shares why accuracy is the real unlock for early disease detection.

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GPx Is Turning Smartwatches into a Non-Invasive Wearable "CGM for Heart Failure"

Aug 7, 2026

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2 min read

GPx Is Turning Smartwatches into a Non-Invasive Wearable "CGM for Heart Failure"

For heart failure patients, the space between doctor visits is often a black box. StartUp Health member Sean Matsuoka of General Prognostics wants to fix that.

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Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

Aug 6, 2026

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1 min read

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

General Prognostics provides a non‐invasive wearable that continuously monitors heart‐failure biomarkers using a standard smartwatch, enabling doctors to detect worsening HF weeks early and intervene remotely, improving outcomes and scalability.

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Closing the loop on social drivers of health with Alvee's care navigator

Jul 22, 2026

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1 min read

Closing the loop on social drivers of health with Alvee's care navigator

StartUp Health community member Nicole Cook shares how automating social care navigation helped Mayo Clinic uncover $52.5M in unrealized reimbursements, and how one platform is making sure patients don't fall through the cracks.

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Valera Health Acquired by Mindoula to Expand Whole Person Care Enablement Platform

Jul 22, 2026

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4 min read

Valera Health Acquired by Mindoula to Expand Whole Person Care Enablement Platform

Mindoula announces the acquisitions of StartUp Health member company Valera Health and Janus Healthcare Partners, expanding the company's clinical footprint and its ability to offer enhanced tech-enabled whole person care solutions to healthcare organizations.

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Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

Buddy Healthcare Acquired by VitalHub

Since founding Buddy Healthcare in 2016, StartUp Health member Jussi Määttä and his team have built a leading care coordination platform trusted by hospitals across Europe – digitalizing perioperative and secondary care pathways to replace physical notes, phone calls, and unnecessary visits with automated guidance that keeps patients on track and frees up hospital resources.

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How Access TeleCare Is Keeping Community Hospitals Open and Patients Close to Home

Jun 19, 2026

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4 min read

How Access TeleCare Is Keeping Community Hospitals Open and Patients Close to Home

As hundreds of rural hospitals face closure, the largest acute specialty telemedicine company in the country is doubling down on the mission to keep patients local and community hospitals viable.

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Access TeleCare brings the specialist to the patient – keeping community hospitals open

Jun 18, 2026

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1 min read

Access TeleCare brings the specialist to the patient – keeping community hospitals open

A Health Moonshot Update with CEO Josh DeTillio on building the virtual hospital model that's proving its worth across all 50 states

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The Brain Behind the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

Jun 8, 2026

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1 min read

The Brain Behind the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

In under five minutes, cliexa CEO Mehmet Kazgan explains why clinical reasoning is the missing layer in healthcare AI, and why the moment to act is now.

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Just Keep Going: The Real Lesson Behind a Decade of Building inHealth

Apr 22, 2026

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Just Keep Going: The Real Lesson Behind a Decade of Building inHealth

StartUp Health community members Aubrey Sawyer and Michelle Alencar, PhD, share the hard-earned lessons behind building a clinically grounded health coaching platform over nearly a decade — from evidence and iteration to perseverance, partnerships, and knowing when to keep going.

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Rethinking Healthcare Before Insurance Is Even Used: The EqualityMD Model

Apr 20, 2026

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Rethinking Healthcare Before Insurance Is Even Used: The EqualityMD Model

StartUp Health community member Justin Ayars of EqualityMD shares how an insurance-free, culturally competent model is reducing costs, rebuilding trust, and challenging how Americans think about healthcare.

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More Than a Dozen StartUp Health Members Selected as Quarterfinalists in the Digital Health & AI Awards

15 StartUp Health Member Companies Honored on TIME's List of the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026

Closing the Referral Gap: How Dentistry.One Is Bringing Preventive Dental Care to Where Patients Already Are

How Mediktor Is Building Trust Into AI-Powered Triage

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

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

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

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

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

Why Digital Health Founders Should Stop Worrying If They Are “AI Enough”

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

How Dentistry.One is turning every doctor's visit into a dental referral

Aidar Health's MouthLab: Turning breath into a window into the body

How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine

GPx Is Turning Smartwatches into a Non-Invasive Wearable "CGM for Heart Failure"

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

Closing the loop on social drivers of health with Alvee's care navigator

Valera Health Acquired by Mindoula to Expand Whole Person Care Enablement Platform

Buddy Healthcare Acquired by VitalHub

How Access TeleCare Is Keeping Community Hospitals Open and Patients Close to Home

Access TeleCare brings the specialist to the patient – keeping community hospitals open

The Brain Behind the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

Just Keep Going: The Real Lesson Behind a Decade of Building inHealth

Rethinking Healthcare Before Insurance Is Even Used: The EqualityMD Model

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