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The Danish startup teaching a ceiling sensor to watch grandma - so nurses don't have to
Teton wraps a camera in enough AI that it never has to save a single frame of video - and uses it to cut falls in elder care by up to 82%. Now it is betting American nursing homes will pay for a night nurse that never blinks.
The Tiny Florida Fund Reading Every AI Healthcare Deck
Intelligence Ventures is turning an inbox full of early-stage pitches into a map of AI healthcare - then using that map to place small, concentrated bets on founders whose data may outlast the hype.
Aegis
Aegis is a San Francisco healthtech startup (YC X25) that automates the insurance denial appeals process for healthcare providers, hospitals, and medical billing groups. Its AI detects denied claims, pulls supporting records from EHRs and clearinghouses, drafts policy-specific appeal letters, and submits and tracks them through payer portals - helping providers recover revenue that would otherwise go unclaimed because appeals are too slow and costly to file by hand.
Arrow
Arrow is a New York-based healthcare technology company building an AI-powered operating system for revenue cycle management (RCM). Formerly known as Walnut and often described as 'Stripe for healthcare,' Arrow helps healthcare organizations reduce claim denials, accelerate collections, and run billing, claims, and payer communications from a single platform. Founded in 2020 by Roshan Patel and Yash Joshi, the company emerged from stealth in 2024 with $110M in Series A financing led by Gradient Ventures.
Vellum Health
Vellum Health is an Austin, Texas mobile healthcare company that delivers advanced intravenous (IV) care at the bedside. It combines on-demand vascular access, infusion therapy, and on-site blood transfusions with trained clinicians and an AI-powered patient intelligence platform. By extending hospital-grade IV services into skilled nursing facilities, long-term acute care centers, and homes, Vellum helps hospitals, payors, and post-acute providers avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, speed time-to-treatment, and lower the cost of care.
Wheel
Wheel is an Austin-based virtual care company that provides the behind-the-scenes infrastructure powering telehealth for health plans, retailers, pharma and digital health brands. Rather than running its own branded clinic, Wheel supplies a configurable platform, a nationwide network of licensed clinicians and the compliance and operations layer companies need to launch and scale virtual care programs. Its Horizon platform, launched in 2024, layers AI and condition-specific care programs on top of a data-first EHR. Wheel says it has delivered care to more than four million people and has raised roughly $216 million, including a $150 million Series C in 2022.
Eliana Berger
Eliana Berger is the co-founder and CEO of Joyful Health, a New York startup building AI-powered financial infrastructure for healthcare providers. The company focuses on the hardest part of the revenue cycle - chasing down denied and unpaid insurance claims - and works on performance-based pricing, getting paid only when it recovers money for clients. In April 2026, Joyful Health raised a $17M Series A led by CRV, bringing total funding to $22M. Berger's path to the problem was personal: she grew up watching her mother and grandmother run a therapy practice and struggle to understand what had been paid and what was still owed.
Delfina
Delfina is a San Francisco-based maternal health company that pairs an AI-powered clinical platform with a consumer pregnancy app to make prenatal care proactive rather than reactive. Its predictive models flag rising risk - preterm birth, hypertensive disorders, gestational diabetes - while patients track vitals from home and connect around the clock with bilingual virtual doulas, dietitians, and mental health support. Founded in 2021 by physician-scientist Dr. Senan Ebrahim and his co-founders, Delfina sells to health plans, providers, and employers, and has raised roughly $22M to date, including a $17M Series A in January 2025.
Tyler Payne
Tyler Payne is the founder and CEO of Vellum Health, an Austin-based company that sends clinicians to draw a line, hang an infusion, or run a blood transfusion at a patient's bedside in a skilled nursing facility or living room instead of an emergency room. He rolled up a set of regional vascular-access businesses, wrapped them in a single brand and an AI platform that reads a facility's EMR to find patients who need care, and closed a Series A in mid-2025 led by FCA Venture Partners. Before Vellum he helped build CVS Health's nationwide clinical-trial infrastructure and worked at Elligo Health Research and ePatientFinder. He holds a molecular biology degree from Colorado and an MBA from UT Austin's McCombs School.
Century Health
Century Health is a New York-based health technology company that turns fragmented, messy electronic health record data into clean, structured, analysis-ready real-world evidence. Its AI-powered platform, CHARM (Century Health Abstraction & Retrieval Model), automates the curation, abstraction, and de-identification of clinical data to build disease-specific patient registries for pharmaceutical and life sciences research. Founded in 2023 by Vish Srivastava and Sanjay Hariharan, the company reports 97% accuracy against clinical expert judgment and raised a $5M seed round in 2026 led by Origin Ventures.
Chronica
Chronica is a San Diego digital-health company that runs remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) as a managed service. Built on parent company Hifinite Health's hiCare platform, Chronica pairs a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant software stack with the parts most clinics don't want to build themselves: the connected devices, the in-house clinicians, the call center, and the billing paperwork tied to CMS reimbursement codes. Providers - from outpatient practices to hospitals, ACOs, and home-health agencies - get to extend care beyond the exam room without upfront costs, long contracts, or patient minimums.
Fidari
Fidari is a healthtech company building digital infrastructure for oncology navigation. Its software plugs into existing EHR systems via FHIR/HL7 to automate patient-navigation workflows, capture navigation billing revenue, and connect cancer patients to supportive and ancillary services through an integrated marketplace. Founded in 2023 and led by second-time healthcare founder Othman Ouenes, Fidari pairs AI-driven triage with human navigators to support patients from diagnosis through survivorship, while generating research-ready real-world data for life-sciences partners.
Karoo Health
Karoo Health is an Albuquerque, New Mexico company building tech-enabled, value-based cardiovascular care. It pairs wraparound care teams - nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, health coaches and advanced-practice providers - with Kohere.ai, a proprietary platform that aggregates patient data, flags risk and coordinates communication. The model helps cardiology networks, health systems and health plans move from fee-for-service to value-based arrangements, aiming to improve heart-patient outcomes while lowering the cost of care.
Rovi Health
Rovi Health is a New York-based digital health startup (Y Combinator F25) that gives employer health plans an AI-powered, text-first care concierge. Members text a nurse-guided clinician who treats common conditions virtually, then steer them to high-quality, in-network providers using terabytes of price and quality data - catching expensive care before it is scheduled. Founded in 2025 by brothers Santosh and Tarun Vallabhaneni, Rovi claims employers can cut 10-20% of annual healthcare spend while employees get concierge-level care.
Bunkerhill Health
Bunkerhill Health is a San Francisco AI company building the 'system of action' for hospitals. Its Carebricks platform lets health systems create, share, and deploy AI agents that turn routine data - especially CT scans already sitting in the archive - into actionable clinical findings. Born out of Stanford's Center for AI in Medicine and Imaging, the company has racked up a string of first-in-class FDA clearances for opportunistic detection of cardiovascular and bone disease, and in 2026 secured a national CMS reimbursement pathway for AI cardiovascular analysis.
Legion Health
Legion Health is an AI-native psychiatry practice that delivers world-class mental health care covered by insurance. The company automates the administrative work behind clinical care - and became the first to receive regulatory authorization for AI to prescribe psychiatric medications, starting in Utah.
Trayt Health
Trayt Health is a Menlo Park, California company building a patient-centric, clinician-directed software platform that coordinates behavioral and mental health care across primary care, schools, and specialty clinicians. Its platform powers statewide psychiatry access programs and managed care organizations by tracking 750+ symptoms and factors, streamlining consultations and referrals, and turning granular patient data into population-level insights. As of 2026 it supports roughly 20 statewide behavioral health programs across eight U.S. states.
Lily Vittayarukskul
Lily Vittayarukskul is the co-founder and CEO of Waterlily, a San Francisco AI company that predicts when a person will need long-term care, for how long, and what it will cost - then helps families figure out how to pay for it. A child prodigy who started college at 14 and interned at NASA by 16, she pivoted from aerospace engineering to healthcare after her aunt's terminal cancer diagnosis exposed how unprepared most families are for the cost of caregiving. Waterlily runs more than 500 million data points through proprietary AI models, has raised roughly $10 million from investors including Genworth, Nationwide and Edward Jones Ventures, and landed Lily on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Min Lee
Min Lee is the founder, CEO and president of IPMD, Inc., a San Mateo emotional-AI company born at UC Berkeley in 2016. He led the build of EchoAI (also known as Project M), a human-centered emotional-AI platform that reads facial micro-expressions, tone, and language to classify human emotion with a reported 96% comprehension rate - trained over 130,000 hours by a team of roughly 500 collaborators. In 2025 he was named a Visionary CEO in Emotional AI by Business Worldwide Magazine.
Othman Ouenes
Othman Ouenes is the CEO and co-founder of Fidari, an oncology-first care infrastructure company whose name means 'in my home' in Arabic. A second-time healthcare founder, he previously co-founded QURE Healthcare (acquired by TRC Healthcare), where he spent roughly twelve years building clinical-measurement software. Born in France to a Moroccan mother and French-Algerian father and raised in the United States, he studied Human Biology at Stanford and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he also serves as a part-time firefighter. Fidari combines AI-driven workflow automation with human navigation to help health systems coordinate supportive cancer care, capture billing, and connect patients to home-based services.
Samantha Scott
Samantha Scott, PhD is the founder and CEO of JuneBrain, a Baltimore medtech startup building the first wearable, technician-free retinal scanning system. Trained as a biomedical engineer at Stanford and USC, she is turning high-resolution eye imaging plus AI into a way to detect and monitor brain and eye conditions far outside the walls of a clinic. JuneBrain has raised more than $3 million in private capital, won $3 million in NSF grants, holds four issued patents, and is on track for an FDA submission.
Santosh Vallabhaneni
Santosh Vallabhaneni is the co-founder and CEO of Rovi Health, a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup building text-first, AI-enabled healthcare for employees. Patients get care over text or video while AI agents steer them to high-value, in-network providers and handle scheduling, cutting employer health spend by 10-20%. Before Rovi he was GM of Cedar's patient affordability products and an early go-to-market leader at AngelList, and he is a licensed health insurance broker. He founded the company with his brother Tarun, the CTO.
Soheil Saadat
Soheil Saadat is the founder and CEO of GenieMD, a global virtual care platform that bundles telehealth, remote patient monitoring, remote therapeutic monitoring and chronic care management into one modular, AI-assisted system. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with a Ph.D., he is a four-time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies and Microsoft before he turned his attention from enterprise software to healthcare. His pitch is blunt: most virtual care wastes everyone's time, and a smarter system can let a doctor resolve a visit in under two minutes. GenieMD won Frost & Sullivan's 2024 Company of the Year award for virtual chronic disease management.
OptraHEALTH
OptraHEALTH is a San Jose-based AI healthcare intelligence company that turns dense genomic and clinical data into plain conversation. Its patented HealthFAX platform and GeneFAX product line use conversational AI, natural language processing, and knowledge graphs to help labs, hospitals, payors, and patients navigate genetic testing, revenue cycle management, prior authorization, and clinical decisions - letting people ask their health data questions through chat, mobile, and voice interfaces.
Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer is the founder and CEO of Vital, an AI-driven software company that helps hospitals cut emergency-room wait times, flag high-risk patients, and translate medical jargon into plain English. He first made his name building Mint.com, the free personal-finance app he started in 2006 and sold to Intuit for $170 million just two-plus years later. An engineer with degrees from Duke and Princeton, Patzer has spent his career turning intimidating, regulation-heavy industries into experiences ordinary people can actually understand - first money, now medicine.
AmplifyMD
AmplifyMD is a Los Gatos, California-based health technology company that runs an EHR-integrated, AI-enabled multispecialty virtual care platform. Founded in 2019 by Meena Mallipeddi and Anand Nathan, it connects hospitals and health systems - especially rural and community facilities - to a national network of board-certified specialists across more than 15 fields, helping providers launch and scale telehealth programs for needs like stroke, psychiatry, hospitalist coverage, and infectious disease. The company supports 400+ active programs across all 50 states and powers more than 220,000 consults a year.
lululab Inc.
lululab Inc. is a South Korean beauty-and-healthcare AI company spun off from Samsung Electronics' C-Lab incubator in 2017. Its Lumini platform uses deep-learning computer vision to analyze a person's facial skin across seven categories - wrinkles, pores, acne, sebum, melasma, redness, and oil/moisture balance - from a single photo in about ten seconds, then recommends tailored products and routines. Built on a database of more than five million skin data points with claimed accuracy above 90%, lululab sells AI kiosks (Lumini Kiosk), a home device (Lumini Home), and an embeddable mobile SDK (Lumini SDK) to retailers, clinics, and brands worldwide.
Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson is a healthcare growth executive with 35+ years across dental, vision, Medicaid, Medicare, and chronic care management. He spent 15 years at LIBERTY Dental Plan, where he grew the business to more than $900 million in sales and over 6 million covered lives across all 50 states. After serving as Chief Growth Officer at Vheda Health, he was named Strategic Advisor to the CEO of LightSpun, the AI-powered dental insurance administration platform formerly known as 32Health, in April 2026, where he leads national growth strategy and payer partnerships.
Novellia
Novellia is a New York-based digital health company that lets patients pull together their complete medical history from more than 50,000 U.S. healthcare systems into one free app, then choose whether to share de-identified versions of that data with drug companies and researchers. Using proprietary natural language processing, Novellia turns messy, unstructured clinical text - physician notes, lab narratives, diagnostic reports - into clean, research-ready longitudinal datasets. The result is a two-sided model: patients regain control of their records at no cost, while life sciences organizations get higher-quality, patient-consented real-world data than the fragmented claims-based datasets they buy today.
SamaCare
SamaCare is a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company that runs the leading medical-benefit prior authorization platform for specialty medications. Its cloud-based, AI-assisted software replaces the fax-and-phone paperwork that delays patients from receiving life-changing biologics, automating submission, tracking, benefit verification, and enrollment across major US payers. The platform serves specialty practices in retina, oncology, neurology, and rheumatology, plus pharmaceutical manufacturers who use SamaCare's real-time data to improve patient access.