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The Caregiver Is the Second Patient: Mass General’s Katie Brandt Is Making Sure Health Innovators Never Forget It

Jun 25, 2026

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The Caregiver Is the Second Patient: Mass General’s Katie Brandt Is Making Sure Health Innovators Never Forget It

As director of caregiver support services at Mass General's FTD Unit – and a caregiver herself for more than 18 years – Katie Brandt brings a perspective no dataset can replicate. Here is what she wants founders building in the Alzheimer's and caregiving space to understand.

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From Founder to Commercial Leader: Jill Angelo on What It Really Takes to Build in Women’s Health

Jun 11, 2026

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4 min read

From Founder to Commercial Leader: Jill Angelo on What It Really Takes to Build in Women’s Health

Oura's VP of Women's Health and Commercial Partnerships joined StartUp Health for a candid fireside chat on why women's health has finally grown up as a category, what it takes to build clinical credibility through partnerships, and the hard-won founder lesson she wishes she had learned earlier.

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Building women's health from the inside out: Fireside Chat highlights with Jill Angelo of Oura

Jun 11, 2026

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1 min read

Building women's health from the inside out: Fireside Chat highlights with Jill Angelo of Oura

A curated look at key insights from our live member fireside chat with Oura's VP of Women's Health and Commercial Partnerships.

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More Time to Be Human: Esther Dyson on AI, Human Limits, and the Healthcare We’re Not Building

Jun 5, 2026

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5 min read

More Time to Be Human: Esther Dyson on AI, Human Limits, and the Healthcare We’re Not Building

In a wide-ranging community fireside chat, investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member Esther Dyson made the case for limits as a feature, not a flaw, and pushed health innovators to ask harder questions about what they're actually building.

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What CMS Wants Health Tech Founders to Know About the Future of Medicare

May 18, 2026

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3 min read

What CMS Wants Health Tech Founders to Know About the Future of Medicare

In an interactive fireside chat with 50 StartUp Health community members, CMS Deputy Administrator Abe Sutton shared his unfiltered view of where federal healthcare payment is heading and what it means for technology innovators building in the Medicare space.

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What It Takes to Turn Health Innovation Into Impact, According to Cleveland Clinic's Jerry Wilmink

Apr 20, 2026

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3 min read

What It Takes to Turn Health Innovation Into Impact, According to Cleveland Clinic's Jerry Wilmink

The former startup founder and current Director of Business Development at Cleveland Clinic Innovations shares his thoughts on AI, augmented reality, and why the best partnerships start early.

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What the Age of Superintelligence Means for Health Tech: A Conversation with Julie Yoo of a16z

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

What the Age of Superintelligence Means for Health Tech: A Conversation with Julie Yoo of a16z

In a fireside chat held for members of the StartUp Health community, a16z General Partner Julie Yoo shared her unfiltered view of a watershed moment in health innovation, from compound business models and shifting investor expectations to the case for infinite healthcare.

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Healthcare Will Benefit Most from AI. Here's Why. | Julie Yoo of a16z

Apr 9, 2026

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2 min read

Healthcare Will Benefit Most from AI. Here's Why. | Julie Yoo of a16z

a16z General Partner Julie Yoo joins StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes for a wide-ranging conversation with an interactive audience of StartUp Health community members on why healthcare is positioned to benefit from AI more than any other industry, and what that means for the founders building right now.

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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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7 min read

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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What It Really Takes to Build in Healthcare: Alyssa Jaffee of 7wire Ventures

Mar 20, 2026

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2 min read

What It Really Takes to Build in Healthcare: Alyssa Jaffee of 7wire Ventures

In these highlights from an in-depth community conversation, 7wire Ventures partner Alyssa Jaffee shares her unfiltered take 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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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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Reversing Type 2 Diabetes at Scale: Virta CEO on AI, Nutrition, & the Future of Metabolic Health

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

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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Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence: Vinod Khosla & Unity Stoakes at Apollo House

Feb 6, 2026

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Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence: Vinod Khosla & Unity Stoakes at Apollo House

At Apollo House 2026, Unity Stoakes sat down with entrepreneur, investor, and technologist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures for a wide-ranging fireside chat on what AI platform shifts mean for healthcare. Khosla traces the arc from the microprocessor to the internet to mobile, then argues that today’s AI wave is larger than any prior platform change, with implications that could bring high-quality care to billions.They explore why “copilots” can underperform in complex clinical work, what an “AI intern” model could look like in practice, and why trust, supervision, and fit-for-purpose guardrails matter. In a live exchange with Esther Dyson, the conversation also turns to the human element of care, empathy, and what “real” health support should include beyond diagnosis.

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Vinod Khosla on Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence: Build Trust, Then Let AI Scale Care

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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Inside the APOLLO HOUSE Panel: Rebuilding the Modern Health Stack in the Age of Superintelligence

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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APOLLO HOUSE Recap: Uniting Bold Innovators, Investors, Big Tech, and Health Leaders to Tackle Health Moonshots in the Age of AI

Jan 14, 2026

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5 min read

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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Setting New Benchmarks for the Age of Superintelligence

Jan 6, 2026

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9 min read

Setting New Benchmarks for the Age of Superintelligence

The World Needs a Health Moonshots Race

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The Case for Limits: Esther Dyson and Unity Stoakes Discuss Staying Human in an Age of Abundance and Superintelligence

Dec 23, 2025

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17 min read

The Case for Limits: Esther Dyson and Unity Stoakes Discuss Staying Human in an Age of Abundance and Superintelligence

This is a conversation about limits – why they matter, what they protect, and how they might be the missing counterweight in an era of runaway scale. What follows is an edited Q&A with Esther Dyson.

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Inside the Caregiving Moonshot: Richard Lui Is Calling Innovators to Build for the Backbone of Health

Dec 19, 2025

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5 min read

Inside the Caregiving Moonshot: Richard Lui Is Calling Innovators to Build for the Backbone of Health

Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Richard Lui, Chief Impact Officer for StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot, shares the personal journey that sparked his mission to transform the global care economy. He explains why caregiving must become a core pillar of every health innovation strategy and why now is the moment for more founders, investors, and leaders to join this movement.

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Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence

Dec 5, 2025

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6 min read

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.

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