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

Sep 29, 2026

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

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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How Mediktor Is Building Trust Into AI-Powered Triage

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.

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

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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Why Employee Mental Health Benefits Need to Get Proactive

Sep 1, 2026

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1 min read

Why Employee Mental Health Benefits Need to Get Proactive

Stephen Sokoler explains why reactive EAPs are falling short and how Journey is building a preventive model backed by hard-dollar outcomes.

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UnaliWear's Kanega: The Watch Designed to Never Look Like a Medical Alert

Aug 31, 2026

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1 min read

UnaliWear's Kanega: The Watch Designed to Never Look Like a Medical Alert

UnaliWear founder Jean Anne Booth explains how a rejected garage-door-opener pendant became a Wirecutter-favorite watch built for independence with dignity.

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

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

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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How Pelago cut addiction treatment costs by 10x – and why AI changes what's next

Aug 12, 2026

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2 min read

How Pelago cut addiction treatment costs by 10x – and why AI changes what's next

Pelago's Dr. Yusuf Sherwani on a decade of building addiction care, the metrics behind a $150M raise, and why Pelago is refounding itself for the age of AI.

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Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

Aug 10, 2026

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1 min read

Meet MEI Micro: How ultra-accurate motion sensors could catch disease decades early

What if the sensor in your wearable is the limiting factor in what it can tell you about your health?

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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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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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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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Cx Precision Medicine Is Solving the First Step in Alzheimer's Diagnosis | Health Moonshot Update

Apr 23, 2026

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6 min read

Cx Precision Medicine Is Solving the First Step in Alzheimer's Diagnosis | Health Moonshot Update

For millions of Americans worried about memory loss, getting answers takes years. Cx Precision Medicine is changing that with a simple blood test that helps primary care physicians rule out Alzheimer's before the diagnostic maze even begins.

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Imaginostics Is Making the Invisible Visible in Vascular Health | Health Moonshot Update

Apr 7, 2026

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7 min read

Imaginostics Is Making the Invisible Visible in Vascular Health | Health Moonshot Update

After eight years of translating a physics breakthrough into a clinical product, StartUp Health community members Valerie Gharagouzloo, CEO & Co-founder, and Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, Chief Science Officer & Co-founder of Imaginostics, are at an inflection point. With FDA Breakthrough Designation secured, a commercialization partnership with Siemens underway, and a 96-patient biomarker study now in motion, Imaginostics is closing the distance between laboratory invention and bedside impact.

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Inside the Food as Medicine Moonshot: Kim Fisher Is Rallying Innovators Around the Most Overlooked Driver of Health

Mar 31, 2026

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4 min read

Inside the Food as Medicine Moonshot: Kim Fisher Is Rallying Innovators Around the Most Overlooked Driver of Health

Kim Fisher has spent her career building things, backing things, and translating science into impact. Now she's bringing all of it to bear as Chief Impact Officer of StartUp Health's Food as Medicine Moonshot, and she believes the wave entrepreneurs have been waiting for is finally here.

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

Mar 27, 2026

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5 min read

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

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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Mocingbird Turns Licensing Chaos Into Clinical Capacity | Health Moonshot Update

Mar 5, 2026

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3 min read

Mocingbird Turns Licensing Chaos Into Clinical Capacity | Health Moonshot Update

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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Repositioning EqualityMD to Tackle America’s Broken Healthcare System | Health Moonshot Update

Feb 24, 2026

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4 min read

Repositioning EqualityMD to Tackle America’s Broken Healthcare System | Health Moonshot Update

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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