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Health Transformer Journal: A blog about health moonshot progress covering StartUp Health’s global community of Health Transformers

Oct 2, 2026

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Venrock's Bob Kocher on the Real Test for Investable Healthcare Companies

In a Fireside Chat with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes, the Venrock partner and physician makes the case that AI will improve healthcare without making it cheaper, and explains the one question he asks every founder before anything else.

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Thought Leadership

StartUp Health Event

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

Oct 1, 2026

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5 min read

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.

Oral Health Moonshot

Access to Care Moonshot

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Women’s Health Moonshot

Caregiving Moonshot

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Healthy Longevity Moonshot

Food as Medicine Health Moonshot

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Sep 29, 2026

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2 min read

After 11 Years and 11 Million Lives, Journey's Founder Says Mental Healthcare Must Get Proactive

Stephen Sokoler built Journey to catch employees before they break – now he's betting the next era of workplace mental health is preventive, not reactive.

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Health Moonshot Update

Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

Ortet, OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience, EliseAI, and Enveda Headline a Mega Week in Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 29, 2026

Sep 29, 2026

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Ortet, OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience, EliseAI, and Enveda Headline a Mega Week in Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 29, 2026

A $500M commitment to launch Ortet, a frontier AI lab for health, tops a week with seven nine-figure deals across patient-centered foundation models, AI operations automation, AI drug discovery, clinical search, brain-computer interfaces, pharmacy benefits, and biological AI. Beyond the mega-deals, investors backed microbiome testing, cardiac imaging AI, surgical training, post-acute care automation, midwife-led maternal care, and NHS primary care tools across the US, UK, France, Israel, Portugal, Japan, Australia, and India.

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Shining a Light on Alzheimer's: Guillaume Blivet's Mission to Help the Brain Fight Back

Sep 28, 2026

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Shining a Light on Alzheimer's: Guillaume Blivet's Mission to Help the Brain Fight Back

As Chief Innovation Officer & Co-founder of REGEnLIFE, Guillaume Blivet, MPH, is advancing a non-invasive light therapy that targets both the brain and the gut, with a pivotal Alzheimer's trial underway and a new clinical partnership with the Hospices Civils de Lyon.

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Health Transformer Spotlight

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Women’s Health Moonshot

Caregiving Moonshot

Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Healthy Longevity Moonshot

Food as Medicine Health Moonshot

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

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.

Oral Health Moonshot

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Mega-Rounds Anchor a 28-Deal Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 22, 2026

A $600M raise for Angle Health and a $340M round for Heidi top a week that stretched from San Francisco to Shanghai, Melbourne to Cairo, with 28 deals spanning benefits tech, AI diagnostics, women's health, and clinical infrastructure.

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Resilience by Design: How Danguole Altman Built a Career Around Earlier Diagnosis While Retaining Hard-Won Balance

Sep 21, 2026

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Resilience by Design: How Danguole Altman Built a Career Around Earlier Diagnosis While Retaining Hard-Won Balance

As CEO of Cx Precision Medicine, Danguole Altman is closing the gap between first symptom and diagnosis, drawing on a lifetime of resilience, heritage, and hard-won balance.

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Health Transformer Spotlight

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Sep 18, 2026

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3 min read

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

Sep 15, 2026

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2 min read

Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

As CEO & Co-founder of Spotlight-AQ, Katharine Barnard-Kelly, PhD, is proving that listening to patients isn't just compassionate care, it's better medicine.

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Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

Health Transformer Spotlight

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Sep 15, 2026

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2 min read

Vheda Health Lands $47M to Power Outcomes for Health Plans | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 15, 2026

We're excited for StartUp Health community member Vheda Health on securing its first institutional capital to scale outcomes and analytics for hard-to-reach health plan members. The raise headlines a week that also saw Thatch bring in a new $108M round for its health benefits platform, Tandem Health close $100M for its AI medical assistant, and more than a dozen other health innovation rounds in the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

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Sep 11, 2026

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3 min read

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap & Unity Stoakes on Investing in the Age of AI-Native Healthcare

The 50-year-old firm's healthcare investor on team over technology, the fastest-growing corner of health AI adoption, and what it really takes to get funded right now.

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Thought Leadership

StartUp Health Event

Sep 8, 2026

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3 min read

Alan's $550M Megaround Leads a Blockbuster Week in Health Tech Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 8, 2026

Paris-based AI insurer Alan closes one of Europe's largest health tech raises this year, as global funding spans oncology care, wearables, surgical AI, and reproductive diagnostics.

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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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Aug 25, 2026

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3 min read

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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

Aug 24, 2026

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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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Thought Leadership

Aug 21, 2026

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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

Access to Care Moonshot

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Addiction & Opioid Crisis Moonshot

Health Moonshot Update

Aug 18, 2026

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AI-Native Biotech Startup Banks $100M as Health Innovation Funding Rolls On | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 18, 2026

From foundation models for drug discovery to smart rings that diagnose sleep apnea in three nights, this week's raises span the globe – and the stage.

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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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Aug 11, 2026

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2 min read

From Eye Disease to AI Fraud Detection, Global Health Innovation Funding Wave Continues | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 11, 2026

A $118M round for a blindness therapy leads a week stretching from Sydney robotics to Dubai longevity labs, with AI showing up everywhere from cancer surveillance to dental design.

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Microsoft VP on Why Healthcare Is Outpacing AI Adoption Expectations

Aug 11, 2026

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2 min read

Microsoft VP on Why Healthcare Is Outpacing AI Adoption Expectations

A fireside chat with Microsoft's Kimmi Grewal on data, speed, and what it really takes for health innovators to win with AI

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Thought Leadership

StartUp Health Event

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

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Venrock's Bob Kocher on the Real Test for Investable Healthcare Companies

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

After 11 Years and 11 Million Lives, Journey's Founder Says Mental Healthcare Must Get Proactive

Ortet, OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience, EliseAI, and Enveda Headline a Mega Week in Global Health Innovation Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 29, 2026

Shining a Light on Alzheimer's: Guillaume Blivet's Mission to Help the Brain Fight Back

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

Mega-Rounds Anchor a 28-Deal Global Funding Week | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 22, 2026

Resilience by Design: How Danguole Altman Built a Career Around Earlier Diagnosis While Retaining Hard-Won Balance

How Mediktor Is Building Trust Into AI-Powered Triage

Mapping the Human Side of Diabetes Care: Dr. Katharine Barnard-Kelly's Mission to Make Every Patient Feel Heard

Vheda Health Lands $47M to Power Outcomes for Health Plans | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 15, 2026

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap & Unity Stoakes on Investing in the Age of AI-Native Healthcare

Alan's $550M Megaround Leads a Blockbuster Week in Health Tech Funding | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Sep 8, 2026

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

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

AI-Native Biotech Startup Banks $100M as Health Innovation Funding Rolls On | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 18, 2026

MEI Micro Is Betting That Better Sensors Mean Better Medicine

From Eye Disease to AI Fraud Detection, Global Health Innovation Funding Wave Continues | StartUp Health Insights: Week of Aug 11, 2026

Microsoft VP on Why Healthcare Is Outpacing AI Adoption Expectations

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

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