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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seen Health
Seen Health is a technology-enabled senior care company building culturally focused PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) centers, starting with Asian and Pacific Islander elders in California's San Gabriel Valley. Founded by twin brothers Xing and Yang Su, it combines comprehensive medical and social care, native-language providers, an AI documentation platform, and a program that trains and pays family members as caregivers so seniors can age at home with dignity instead of entering nursing homes.
Sikka.ai
Sikka.ai is a San Jose-based AI and API platform for the retail healthcare market - dentistry, veterinary, optometry, audiology, chiropractic and more. Its ONE API connects to over 400 practice management systems and roughly 96% of the market, giving developers and practices a single integration point to pull patient data, post payments, and tap 300+ KPIs. Built on de-identified data from tens of thousands of practices over two decades, Sikka also ships practice-facing analytics (Optimizer) and DentalLLM, a dental-specific large language model. Founded in 2004 by Vijay Sikka, the company processes large transaction volumes daily across more than 35,000 practice installations.
Turquoise Health
Turquoise Health is a San Diego health-tech company building the operating system for healthcare contracts and payments. It turns the messy, hidden world of payer and provider pricing - machine-readable files, claims, contracts and Medicare benchmarks - into clear, auditable rates and AI-readable contracts, so that buying and paying for care could one day be as straightforward as any other transaction. More than 280 organizations, including major health systems, national payers, pharma companies and brokers, use the platform.
Virta Health
Virta Health is a digital health company on a mission to reverse type 2 diabetes and obesity in 100 million people. Founded in 2014 by Sami Inkinen, Dr. Stephen Phinney, and Dr. Jeff Volek, Virta pairs a nutrition-first, low-carbohydrate clinical protocol with a Continuous Remote Care platform - a mobile app, dedicated physicians and health coaches, and AI-driven personalization - to lower blood sugar, cut medications, and produce durable weight loss without relying on costly drugs or surgery. Sold to employers and health plans on a value-based, outcomes-guaranteed model, Virta has treated over 100,000 members and surpassed $160M in annualized revenue.
Arine
Arine is a San Francisco-based medication intelligence company using AI, predictive analytics, and clinical workflows to identify patients at risk of medication-related problems and generate personalized care plans. Its platform serves more than 30 health plans, has touched over 30 million lives, and is designed to cut hospitalizations and the cost of care while lifting CMS Star Ratings.
Forta
Forta is a San Francisco-based virtual ABA therapy company that pairs board-certified behavior analysts with families across 47 states, using AI-assisted clinical algorithms to deliver autism care without the years-long waitlists that define the industry.
House Rx
House Rx is a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company that partners with specialty clinics to enable medically integrated dispensing (MID) - a model where physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and care coordinators work together as one unified team. Founded in 2021 by Flatiron Health veterans Ogi Kavazovic and Tesh Khullar, the company builds AI-enabled pharmacy management software that keeps specialty medications dispensed at the point of care, cutting average time-to-therapy from 15.5 days to 3.5 days and achieving 95% medication adherence. With $100M raised across Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, House Rx serves 80 clinic sites, 1,000+ providers, and nearly 61,000 patients, processing approximately $1.5 billion in specialty prescriptions annually.
Transcarent
Transcarent is a consumer-directed health and care platform built for self-insured employers and their employees. Founded in 2020 by Livongo creator Glen Tullman with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja, it bundles 24/7 doctors, pharmacy, surgery, cancer and behavioral care into one app powered by its AI experience WayFinding. After its $621M merger with Accolade in 2025, the company now covers roughly 20 million Americans.