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Health Transformer Journal: A blog about health moonshot progress covering StartUp Health’s global community of Health Transformers
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Feb 13, 2026
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From Pre-Diabetic Triathlete to Metabolic Health Pioneer: Sami Inkinen’s Health Moonshot with Virta Health
At Apollo House 2026, StartUp Health community member Sami Inkinen, CEO & Founder of Virta Health, joined Steven Krein for a candid fireside chat on reversing metabolic disease, scaling a mission-driven company, and building AI into the DNA of an organization.
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Feb 10, 2026
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Navigation, Advocacy, and Telehealth Drive a Big Week for Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Feb 10, 2026
This week’s funding highlights a surge of investment in care navigation, patient advocacy, and AI-powered health services, led by nine-figure raises across the US and Europe. From employer-sponsored navigation and women’s health to value-based cardiology, claims automation, workforce platforms, and global digital care delivery, investors backed solutions tackling access, efficiency, and outcomes at scale.
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Feb 6, 2026
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Vinod Khosla on Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence: Build Trust, Then Let AI Scale Care
At Apollo House 2026, entrepreneur, investor, and technologist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures joined Unity Stoakes to map what the AI platform shift means for healthcare and why the winning playbook starts with supervision, trust, and bold imagination.
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Feb 3, 2026
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CraniUS Therapeutics Secures $20M in Series B Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Feb 3, 2026
StartUp Health community member CraniUS is a neurotechnology company developing an implantable platform to bypass the blood-brain barrier for long-term, programmable drug delivery. Other funding this week included massive global rounds across AI infrastructure, women’s health, insurance, clinical trials, and diagnostic tools, underscoring continued investor momentum worldwide.
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Jan 29, 2026
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How CAREgivers Insight Is Turning Caregiver Wisdom into Health System Change
StartUp Health community member Christopher Jue of CAREgivers Insight is transforming caregivers from invisible heroes into essential members of the care team. With new real-world evidence, a sharper go-to-market strategy, and an ambitious AI roadmap, he is building what he calls a doorway into healthcare for millions of families.
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Jan 27, 2026
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Inside the APOLLO HOUSE Panel: Rebuilding the Modern Health Stack in the Age of Superintelligence
An all-star panel at StartUp Health’s Apollo House explores how AI, data, and human intention are reshaping the modern health stack and accelerating health moonshots. Senior leaders from AWS, NVIDIA, Amazon, Labcorp, and Advocate Health offered a rare, cross-sector view of how superintelligence is moving healthcare from theory to practice – and what this moment demands of builders and institutions alike to keep care human as technology scales.
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Jan 27, 2026
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Salvo Health Raises $8.5M Series A for GI and Metabolic Care | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jan 27, 2026
This week, StartUp Health community member Salvo Health announced a Series A round to scale its AI-enabled hybrid care model for gastrointestinal and metabolic care, helping providers deliver continuous, more efficient treatment beyond the clinic. The round anchored a blockbuster week in global health innovation funding, with massive raises across AI, digital care delivery, biotech, and medical infrastructure spanning the US, Europe, and India.
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Jan 20, 2026
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Funding Fuels AI-Native Biotech and Precision Care Worldwide | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jan 20, 2026
From AI-driven drug discovery and precision diagnostics to autism care, neuromodulation, and clinical workflow automation, this week’s global funding underscores how data-driven approaches are reshaping health innovation across multiple markets and care settings.
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Jan 14, 2026
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APOLLO HOUSE Recap: Uniting Bold Innovators, Investors, Big Tech, and Health Leaders to Tackle Health Moonshots in the Age of AI
A standing-room-only signal from JPM Healthcare Week.
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Jan 13, 2026
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Alamar Biosciences and Pramana Pharmaceuticals Gain Alzheimer’s Moonshot Momentum | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Jan 13, 2026
This week’s global health innovation funding highlights new investments in Alzheimer’s Moonshot Community members Alamar Biosciences and Pramana Pharmaceuticals, followed by a surge of rounds across precision medicine, AI-driven drug discovery, digital health, medical devices, and care delivery throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Jan 13, 2026
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Clinical, Scalable, Human: How MUTU System Is Changing Women’s Health
StartUp Health community member Wendy Powell, CEO & Founder of MUTU System, has built a clinically-validated digital platform for core and pelvic health that is reshaping care pathways across the NHS, workplaces, and households worldwide. Now she is focused on reaching millions more women through strategic partners and distributors.
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Jan 13, 2026
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StartUp Health and Digital Health Hub Foundation Align 2026 Digital Health Awards With Health Moonshots
A new partnership sets a bold new standard for how digital health innovation is recognized and accelerated.
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Jan 9, 2026
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Who You Will Hear From at Apollo House
An intimate evening of leadership and conversation during JPM Healthcare Week exploring Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence.
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Jan 8, 2026
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Meet the Health Transformers Headed to Apollo House
Next week in San Francisco, founders, funders, and leaders from across the StartUp Health community gather at Apollo House during JPM Healthcare Week to accelerate Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence.
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Jan 6, 2026
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Setting New Benchmarks for the Age of Superintelligence
The World Needs a Health Moonshots Race
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Dec 5, 2025
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Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence
The age of superintelligence has arrived, reshaping healthcare at a pace that even most futurists underestimated until recently. As AI accelerates discovery, democratizes expertise, streamlines administrative tasks, and rewrites how care is delivered, the once-distant vision of achieving global health moonshots is shifting from audacious dream to attainable reality. The question now is how we can best guide this transformation, and level-up our creative use of these powerful tools with greater purpose and speed – the time is now to seize this moment for the benefit of billions.
