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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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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

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

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

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

AHA Ventures' Lisa Suennen on stroke, women's health, and the AI fatigue problem

Aug 11, 2026

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1 min read

AHA Ventures' Lisa Suennen on stroke, women's health, and the AI fatigue problem

Lisa Suennen has invested in health innovation for over three decades – and she says the math hasn't changed. In this Expert AMA, the AHA Ventures managing partner shares where she's leaning in across heart and brain health, why she's wary of AI-for-AI's-sake, and the one thing she says matters more than any pitch deck. StartUp Health members were in the room for the live Q&A that followed.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

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

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.

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Hibiscus Health turns every smartphone camera into a cardiometabolic screening tool

Jul 21, 2026

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1 min read

Hibiscus Health turns every smartphone camera into a cardiometabolic screening tool

StartUp Health community member Kavi Misri on how a 30-second facial scan is catching undiagnosed chronic conditions in 67% of engaged members, and getting most of them into care with a dietitian.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Fixing fragmented endocrine care with eddii's AI-powered specialist model

Jul 14, 2026

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1 min read

Fixing fragmented endocrine care with eddii's AI-powered specialist model

StartUp Health community member Dr. Farhaneh Ahmadi on building specialist-grade endocrine care at scale, and why a paid value-based care pilot with a Fortune 100 payer is proof the model works.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Imaginostics Is Unlocking What MRI Has Never Been Able to Measure

Jun 9, 2026

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1 min read

Imaginostics Is Unlocking What MRI Has Never Been Able to Measure

Imaginostics is transforming MRI technology to provide precise vascular health insights across the body, focusing first on brain and cardiovascular health.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

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SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

May 27, 2026

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5 min read

SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

StartUp Health community member Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, has spent years building toward a single audacious goal: a brain-powered, noninvasive glucose monitor worn discreetly behind the ear. With a working prototype now in internal testing and a clinical study weeks from launch, that goal has never been closer to becoming a product you can actually buy.

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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

May 27, 2026

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1 min read

What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

Casey Halpern, MD, Founder & Chairman of SynchNeuro, shares why the brain is the most powerful glucose monitor we've never used -- and what a working prototype, a launching clinical study, and a 2027 commercial target mean for the 50 million Americans living with prediabetes.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

May 19, 2026

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4 min read

9amHealth's $26M Series B Expands a Proven Cardiometabolic Model | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 19, 2026

StartUp Health community member 9amHealth closes a $26M Series B to extend its AI-enabled virtual specialty care platform beyond cardiometabolic health – while a $2.1B raise for Isomorphic Labs leads one of the most active global digital health funding weeks in recent memory.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

How SynchNeuro Is Using Brain Data to Personalize Metabolic Health

Mar 12, 2026

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2 min read

How SynchNeuro Is Using Brain Data to Personalize Metabolic Health

StartUp Health community member Dr. Casey Halpern explains how SynchNeuro is decoding brain signals to create a discreet, affordable, non-invasive glucose monitor that could help millions better understand metabolism, personalize food choices, and prevent Type 2 diabetes.

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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

From Pre-Diabetic Triathlete to Metabolic Health Pioneer: Sami Inkinen’s Health Moonshot with Virta Health

Feb 13, 2026

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3 min read

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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Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Sami Inkinen of Virta Health on AI-Native Healthcare and Reversing Metabolic Disease

Feb 13, 2026

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3 min read

Sami Inkinen of Virta Health on AI-Native Healthcare and Reversing Metabolic Disease

In this Apollo House 2026 fireside chat, StartUp Health community member Sami Inkinen, CEO & Founder of Virta Health, shares how a personal diagnosis of pre-diabetes led him to build one of the fastest-growing companies in metabolic health.

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

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Feb 12, 2026

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3 min read

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes at Scale: Virta CEO on AI, Nutrition, & the Future of Metabolic Health

Thought Leadership

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StartUp Health Event

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

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

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

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

AHA Ventures' Lisa Suennen on stroke, women's health, and the AI fatigue problem

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

Hibiscus Health turns every smartphone camera into a cardiometabolic screening tool

Fixing fragmented endocrine care with eddii's AI-powered specialist model

Imaginostics Is Unlocking What MRI Has Never Been Able to Measure

SynchNeuro Has a Working Prototype, a New Study Launching, and a Forecast for Your Blood Sugar | Health Moonshot Update

What If Your Brain Could Predict Your Blood Sugar? SynchNeuro Is Making It Real.

9amHealth's $26M Series B Expands a Proven Cardiometabolic Model | StartUp Health Insights: Week of May 19, 2026

How SynchNeuro Is Using Brain Data to Personalize Metabolic Health

From Pre-Diabetic Triathlete to Metabolic Health Pioneer: Sami Inkinen’s Health Moonshot with Virta Health

Sami Inkinen of Virta Health on AI-Native Healthcare and Reversing Metabolic Disease

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes at Scale: Virta CEO on AI, Nutrition, & the Future of Metabolic Health

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