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Avo Raises $10M Series A for Clinical AI Platform | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Mar 31, 2026

Mar 31, 2026

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Avo Raises $10M Series A for Clinical AI Platform | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Mar 31, 2026

StartUp Health community member Avo closed a $10M Series A to power EHR-integrated clinical intelligence – part of a sprawling week of deals from $1M to $575M spanning AI diagnostics, GLP-1 platforms, revenue cycle, behavioral health, and more, from Nashville to Netanya to São Paulo.

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Health Moonshot Update: cliexa Is Building the Clinical Reasoning Engine Healthcare Has Been Missing

Mar 27, 2026

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Health Moonshot Update: cliexa Is Building the Clinical Reasoning Engine Healthcare Has Been Missing

After eight years of building in the background, StartUp Health community member Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa has arrived at the moment he has been preparing for. With a validated clinical intelligence platform deployed at scale, a partnership with Mayo Clinic Platform, and a growing footprint in complex care, cliexa is staking its claim on the next wave of healthcare AI.

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How cliexa Provides the Clinical Reasoning Engine Powering the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

Mar 27, 2026

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3 min read

How cliexa Provides the Clinical Reasoning Engine Powering the Next Wave of Healthcare AI

StartUp Health community member Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa joins Unity Stoakes to explain why AI scribes are just the beginning, and how clinical reasoning is the missing layer every health system needs right now.

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From Record to Reason: Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa on Building the Brain Behind Healthcare AI

Mar 27, 2026

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From Record to Reason: Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa on Building the Brain Behind Healthcare AI

Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa joins Unity Stoakes to make the case that AI scribes are solving the wrong problem, and to explain what clinical reasoning actually looks like when it is running in the background of real patient care.

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7wire’s Alyssa Jaffee on the Evidence Era, the Payer Unlock, and Why VC Isn't for Everyone

Mar 20, 2026

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7wire’s Alyssa Jaffee on the Evidence Era, the Payer Unlock, and Why VC Isn't for Everyone

In an exclusive member-only chat, the 7wire Ventures partner shared her unfiltered perspective on founder-investor fit, the evidence era, AI's real role in health tech, and why the keys to the kingdom are held by payers.

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How datosX Provides Faster Proof for Digital Health Innovators

Mar 19, 2026

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How datosX Provides Faster Proof for Digital Health Innovators

StartUp Health community member Robin Roberts of datosX explains how digital health companies can generate regulatory-grade evidence faster, more affordably, and in partnership with leading health systems, while building toward real market traction.

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“We Really Appreciate All of the Support” - Dr. Ian Madom’s Health Transformer Experience

Mar 18, 2026

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“We Really Appreciate All of the Support” - Dr. Ian Madom’s Health Transformer Experience

Dr. Ian Madom of Mocingbird shares how the StartUp Health community has supported the company’s journey to reduce administrative burden for clinicians and expand access to care.

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Health Moonshot Update: Mocingbird Turns Licensing Chaos Into Clinical Capacity

Mar 5, 2026

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Health Moonshot Update: Mocingbird Turns Licensing Chaos Into Clinical Capacity

Founded by practicing physicians, Mocingbird is quietly removing one of healthcare’s most persistent bottlenecks: the administrative maze of licensing and compliance. By transforming reactive, last-minute renewals into a proactive, system-level workflow, the platform is helping clinicians spend more time with patients and helping health systems scale access across state lines.

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Reducing Licensing Friction to Unlock Clinician Capacity with Dr. Ian Madom, CEO & Co-founder of Mocingbird

Mar 5, 2026

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Reducing Licensing Friction to Unlock Clinician Capacity with Dr. Ian Madom, CEO & Co-founder of Mocingbird

Ian Madom, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and co-founder of Mocingbird, sits down with Unity Stoakes to discuss how fixing licensing and compliance friction can expand access to care across the U.S.

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Mocingbird: How Dr. Ian Madom Is Reducing Licensing Friction to Expand Clinical Care

Mar 4, 2026

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Mocingbird: How Dr. Ian Madom Is Reducing Licensing Friction to Expand Clinical Care

Ian Madom, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and co-founder of Mocingbird, explains how simplifying licensing and compliance helps clinicians spend more time with patients and helps health systems scale access across state lines.

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Repositioning EqualityMD to Tackle America’s Broken Healthcare System

Feb 24, 2026

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Repositioning EqualityMD to Tackle America’s Broken Healthcare System

StartUp Health community member Justin Ayars of EqualityMD is expanding his mission from direct-to-consumer care to an employer-focused model designed to lower costs, close data gaps, and rebuild trust in healthcare. By combining culturally competent virtual care, insurance-free access, in-house pharmacies, and AI-powered insights, EqualityMD is working to reduce care avoidance, increase access to patient-centric care, and reshape how Americans experience health and wellness.

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EqualityMD’s Pre-Insurance Strategy to Reduce Care Avoidance and Lower Healthcare Costs

Feb 24, 2026

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EqualityMD’s Pre-Insurance Strategy to Reduce Care Avoidance and Lower Healthcare Costs

Justin Ayars of EqualityMD shares how a pre-insurance healthcare model can prevent claims, lower costs, and reduce care avoidance for employers and employees.

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Affordable, Inclusive, Insurance-Free: Inside EqualityMD’s Next Chapter

Feb 24, 2026

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Affordable, Inclusive, Insurance-Free: Inside EqualityMD’s Next Chapter

StartUp Health community member Justin Ayars of EqualityMD shares how the company is evolving into a pre-insurance healthcare solution designed to reduce costs, prevent insurance claims, and rebuild trust in healthcare.

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Health Moonshot Update: Sana Health’s Regulatory Breakthrough in Pain Control

Feb 20, 2026

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Health Moonshot Update: Sana Health’s Regulatory Breakthrough in Pain Control

After decades of work in neuromodulation, StartUp Health community member Richard Hanbury of Sana Health has just reached a major regulatory milestone with an FDA De Novo grant for neuropathic pain, creating a new class of audio-visual neuromodulation. This is being followed by PTSD research with the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs.

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Sana Health Clears a Major Milestone in the Fight Against Chronic Pain

Feb 20, 2026

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Sana Health Clears a Major Milestone in the Fight Against Chronic Pain

In this Health Moonshot Update, Richard Hanbury of Sana Health reflects on decades of neuromodulation research, global clinical progress, and PTSD studies with the DoD. An FDA De Novo grant for neuropathic pain followed shortly after this conversation was recorded.

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Sana Health Advances Toward Global Scale in Pain and PTSD Care

Feb 19, 2026

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Sana Health Advances Toward Global Scale in Pain and PTSD Care

In this Health Moonshot Update, Unity Stoakes sits down with StartUp Health community member Richard Hanbury of Sana Health just prior to a major regulatory milestone: an FDA De Novo grant for neuropathic pain, creating a new class of audio-visual neuromodulation. Hanbury shares the decades-long journey behind Sana Health’s science, why neuropathic pain is the strategic wedge for broader mental health adoption, and how pivotal data showed a 78% reduction in gabapentinoid use in the active group. The conversation also explores Sana’s growing PTSD research with the US Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs, expanding studies in Israel, and why multimodal care is essential to the future of scalable pain and mental healthcare.

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Devoted Health Closes $366M Series F | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Feb 17, 2026

Feb 17, 2026

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11 min read

Devoted Health Closes $366M Series F | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Feb 17, 2026

A long-time member of the StartUp Health community, Devoted Health’s mission is to dramatically improve health and wellbeing by caring for everyone like they are family. Beyond Devoted, a busy and global week saw major raises across mental health, medical devices, AI-powered health plans, oncology care, digital therapeutics, and healthcare operations, with funding spanning North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

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datosX Is Building the Validation Engine for Digital Health in the Age of AI

Jan 20, 2026

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datosX Is Building the Validation Engine for Digital Health in the Age of AI

In a market moving at AI speed, evidence cannot take a year. StartUp Health community member Robin Roberts of datosX Digital Health Labs is transforming how digital health teams validate their solutions, delivering buyer-credible evidence and real market traction in months, not years.

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Health Moonshot Update

From Evidence to Adoption: How datosX Is Redefining Digital Health Validation

Jan 20, 2026

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3 min read

From Evidence to Adoption: How datosX Is Redefining Digital Health Validation

Digital health is moving at AI speed, but evidence generation is still stuck in the past.

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Inside datosX: The Future of Digital Health Validation and AI-Driven Evidence

Jan 20, 2026

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Inside datosX: The Future of Digital Health Validation and AI-Driven Evidence

What if digital health validation could happen in months, not years? In this conversation, StartUp Health community member Robin Roberts of datosX explains how his team is building the category-defining infrastructure for digital health evidence. From faster validation and lower costs to AI-powered intelligence with EVIDIA, this interview reveals how datosX is accelerating innovation, strengthening trust, and reshaping how new health solutions reach patients and providers.

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What Happens After the Doctor Visit? How Starlight Is Reinventing Follow-Up Care

Dec 9, 2025

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What Happens After the Doctor Visit? How Starlight Is Reinventing Follow-Up Care

In this episode, StartUp Health community member Nandan Rao, CEO & Founder of Starlight, shares how his company is filling one of the biggest gaps in modern healthcare: what happens after the visit.

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