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StartUp Health TV: Sharing the stories of health moonshot progress with the world

Democratizing Precision: A Sensor Pioneer’s Mission to Transform Brain Health & Sports Medicine

Oct 5, 2026

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Democratizing Precision: A Sensor Pioneer’s Mission to Transform Brain Health & Sports Medicine

In this deep dive interview, Unity Stoakes sits down with MEI Micro CEO & Founder Louis Ross – a former investment strategist turned health innovator – to hear how his team built the world’s first navigation-grade, chip-scale accelerometer.

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Health Transformer Spotlight

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Validic Co-founder Drew Schiller Shares Hard-Won Lessons on Digital Health Exits

Sep 25, 2026

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1 min read

Validic Co-founder Drew Schiller Shares Hard-Won Lessons on Digital Health Exits

Fresh from a successful exit, Drew Schiller chats about black swan events, relationship-driven exits, and the hidden cost of building everything yourself with AI.

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StartUp Health Event

Bob Kocher of Venrock: Where Founders Should (and Shouldn't) Build in the Age of AI

Sep 17, 2026

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1 min read

Bob Kocher of Venrock: Where Founders Should (and Shouldn't) Build in the Age of AI

Venrock partner and physician Bob Kocher sits down with Unity Stoakes and a room full of StartUp Health members to share why AI will improve healthcare without making it cheaper, where he sees real opportunity, and the one thing he looks for in a founder before anything else.

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StartUp Health Event

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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Mental & Behavioral Health Moonshot

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.

Caregiving Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

Healthy Longevity Moonshot

Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap and Unity Stoakes

Aug 26, 2026

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1 min read

Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap and Unity Stoakes

Menlo Ventures Partner Greg Yap on why team beats product as the real moat in health AI and what it takes to get funded right now.

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StartUp Health Event

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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Health Moonshot Update

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.

Oral Health Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

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

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

Access to Care Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

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.

Addiction & Opioid Crisis Moonshot

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Health Moonshot Update

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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StartUp Health Event

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

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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Health Moonshot Update

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

Microsoft's AI ecosystem lead on the real moat in health AI

Aug 7, 2026

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1 min read

Microsoft's AI ecosystem lead on the real moat in health AI

Microsoft VP Kimmi Grewal joins Unity Stoakes to unpack why workflow and data – not the model – are the real differentiator for health AI startups.

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StartUp Health Event

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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Health Moonshot Update

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Turning patient experience into early warning data with Irth

Jul 24, 2026

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1 min read

Turning patient experience into early warning data with Irth

Irth founder Kimberly Seals Allers on why 80% of childbirth-related deaths among Black women are preventable, and how community-powered reviews are giving hospitals the signals they need before harm happens.

Children’s Health Moonshot

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StartUp Health Event

Why General Catalyst is betting on healthcare transformation

Jul 23, 2026

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2 min read

Why General Catalyst is betting on healthcare transformation

General Catalyst manages more than $40B across AI, global resilience, and health assurance – and its boldest healthcare move yet was buying Summa Health outright. In this interactive members-only chat, Holly Maloney, who leads GC's health assurance investing practice, tells Unity Stoakes why partnership beats building around incumbents, how AI is finally reaching the point of care, and what she's listening for from founders at the seed stage.

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StartUp Health Event

Closing the loop on social drivers of health with Alvee's care navigator

Jul 22, 2026

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1 min read

Closing the loop on social drivers of health with Alvee's care navigator

StartUp Health community member Nicole Cook shares how automating social care navigation helped Mayo Clinic uncover $52.5M in unrealized reimbursements, and how one platform is making sure patients don't fall through the cracks.

Access to Care Moonshot

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StartUp Health Event

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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StartUp Health Event

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Live @ Civic Health Forum: AI is coming faster than trust can keep up, with futurist Daniel Kraft, MD

Jul 20, 2026

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1 min read

Live @ Civic Health Forum: AI is coming faster than trust can keep up, with futurist Daniel Kraft, MD

Dr. Daniel Kraft brought a sweeping look at AI, wearables, and digital twins to the Civic Health Forum, with a challenge to build the future of civic health boldly rather than wait for it to arrive.

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StartUp Health Event

Why Arcade Therapeutics is turning mobile games into mental health treatment

Jul 16, 2026

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1 min read

Why Arcade Therapeutics is turning mobile games into mental health treatment

StartUp Health community member Raj Amin explains how attention bias modification, backed by seven NIH-funded studies, is embedded into casual mobile games to get more people started on mental health treatment.

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StartUp Health Event

Mental & Behavioral 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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StartUp Health Event

Cardiometabolic & T1D Health Moonshot

Zinnia's purposeful TV built for people living with dementia

Jul 13, 2026

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1 min read

Zinnia's purposeful TV built for people living with dementia

StartUp Health community member Bill Uniowski on why a streaming service designed for the dementia brain, now in 250 Sunrise senior living communities, is giving families moments of connection and respite.

Caregiving Moonshot

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StartUp Health Event

Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Moonshot

How PONS is closing the diversity gap in medical imaging with ultrasound

Jul 10, 2026

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1 min read

How PONS is closing the diversity gap in medical imaging with ultrasound

PONS CEO & Co-founder Soner Haci on bringing decentralized ultrasound to underrepresented communities, and a 64% improvement in early breast cancer detection with Mayo Clinic.

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StartUp Health Event

Cancer Moonshot

Live @ Civic Health Forum: What the Knicks championship can teach public health about playing the long game

Jul 9, 2026

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1 min read

Live @ Civic Health Forum: What the Knicks championship can teach public health about playing the long game

Luminary Labs founding partner Sara Holoubek opened the Civic Health Forum with a call to reorient public health and prevention around America's aging population – and a reminder that the last era of major health policy progress happened the same year the Knicks last won it all.

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StartUp Health Event

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Democratizing Precision: A Sensor Pioneer’s Mission to Transform Brain Health & Sports Medicine

Validic Co-founder Drew Schiller Shares Hard-Won Lessons on Digital Health Exits

Bob Kocher of Venrock: Where Founders Should (and Shouldn't) Build in the Age of AI

Why Employee Mental Health Benefits Need to Get Proactive

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

Inside a 50-Year-Old VC Firm's Bet on Health AI, With Menlo Ventures' Greg Yap and Unity Stoakes

Why Healthcare Needs a Purpose-Built AI Tool, Not ChatGPT | Mediktor's Cristian Pascual

How Dentistry.One is turning every doctor's visit into a dental referral

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

How Avo is turning physician burnout into better patient care

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

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

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

Microsoft's AI ecosystem lead on the real moat in health AI

Meet GPx: This wearable could catch heart failure weeks before it happens

Turning patient experience into early warning data with Irth

Why General Catalyst is betting on healthcare transformation

Closing the loop on social drivers of health with Alvee's care navigator

Hibiscus Health turns every smartphone camera into a cardiometabolic screening tool

Live @ Civic Health Forum: AI is coming faster than trust can keep up, with futurist Daniel Kraft, MD

Why Arcade Therapeutics is turning mobile games into mental health treatment

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

Zinnia's purposeful TV built for people living with dementia

How PONS is closing the diversity gap in medical imaging with ultrasound

Live @ Civic Health Forum: What the Knicks championship can teach public health about playing the long game

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