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Counsel Health wants to make the waiting room optional
Free medical AI. A real doctor for $29. Counsel Health is rearranging the work behind a consultation - and betting that the appointment is often the least useful part.
Hamilton Health Box makes room for care by making the clinic smaller
A workplace clinic and a rural outpost seem like different businesses. Hamilton Health Box connects them with a compact room, local clinical staff and a doctor at the other end of a screen.
Paloma Health and the art of the in-between
A thyroid appointment lasts minutes. Managing the condition takes years. Paloma Health has built its business around the space between the two.
Antidote Health wants you to use the insurance you buy
The telehealth startup became an insurer with a practical wager: make the first conversation with a clinician easy, inexpensive, and part of the plan. The interesting business is what happens after that call.
Nuna wants your care plan to survive the trip home
A healthcare data company named for a big sister is taking on the hours between doctor visits. Its wager: better daily habits deserve a place in the payment system.
The Doctor Wasn't Missing. The Team Was.
Allara's wager is disarmingly simple: the problem with hormonal care is not always a missing specialist. It is that the specialists rarely behave like a team.
The Startup That Learned the Doctor Was the Door
Salvo Health began by asking patients to walk around the healthcare system. Then it discovered the more useful trick: walk through the front door, beside their own doctor.
Verily Bet Billions on Health Moonshots. Then It Learned to Clean the Data.
The Alphabet spinout tried smart contact lenses, surgical robots and a watch built for research. After layoffs and a strategic reset, its real product looks less cinematic - and potentially more useful: turning health care’s unruly data into evidence, decisions and care.
ExactCare Put the Pharmacy Counter in a Box - Then Built a Care Team Around It
A Cleveland pharmacist noticed that the hardest part of medicine was often not inventing it, but taking it correctly. ExactCare turned the monthly refill into packaging, logistics and clinical follow-through for people whose pill routines had become a second job.
Silver Health Plus
Silver Health Plus is building an at-home care operation around a single wager: that the sickest 5% of Medicare patients decline on a schedule you can watch - and interrupt.
Teladoc Health
Teladoc made the video visit ordinary. Now it is attempting the harder trick: turning urgent care, therapy, chronic-condition coaching and hospital technology into one accountable system of care.
WhiteCoat Global
WhiteCoat Global is a Singapore-headquartered digital healthcare provider that lets patients video-consult a licensed doctor from their phone and get medication delivered to their door. Founded in 2018 by former corporate lawyer Bryan Koh, it grew from Singapore's first telemedicine regulatory-sandbox startup into an omnichannel health group operating across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. After its 2024 acquisition of Indonesia's Good Doctor, the combined group works with over 130 insurers and 7,500 corporate partners to serve more than 6.8 million clients, positioning it as one of Southeast Asia's largest integrated digital healthcare platforms.
Vishal Modi
Vishal Modi is the founder and CEO of Spoonified, a Dallas-area startup building what it calls the world's first intelligent utensil - AI-enabled forks and spoons that identify food, measure portion sizes, and track how fast you eat to automate nutrition logging for chronic-care programs. He spent nearly two decades shipping consumer hardware before this: launching Google Nexus and Moto G phones at Motorola, running Chrome OS and tablet product operations at Lenovo, and building business development and partnerships at edge-device-management company Esper. A Kellogg MBA and computer engineer, he started Spoonified in 2021 after his own struggle with weight management convinced him that the hard part of nutrition tracking is the very first step - getting the data off the plate.
Neru Health
Neru Health is a Boston-based vertical AI company automating patient support and resupply for durable medical equipment (DME) providers and sleep clinics. Its platform centers on Nora, an AI 'active sleep coach' that texts, calls, and emails patients to troubleshoot CPAP devices, coach therapy adherence, and coordinate supply reorders, backed by a digital-phenotyping engine that personalizes each interaction. Spun out of Harvard's Blavatnik Fellowship in 2023 after co-founder Morgan Moncada struggled to get care for his own sleep apnea, Neru says it now serves 30,000+ patients and cuts provider labor costs by up to 60%.
Omada Health
Omada Health is a publicly traded (Nasdaq: OMDA) virtual chronic care company that uses behavioral science, connected devices, AI tools, and human care teams to help people manage prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, musculoskeletal conditions, and weight - including support for members on GLP-1 medications. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, it sells to employers, health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers, serving roughly 2,000-plus customers and more than 886,000 members.
Joe Murad
Joe Murad is President and CEO of Vida Health, a San Francisco-based virtual care company. A two-decade healthcare technology operator, he previously ran WithMe Health and PokitDok (acquired by Change Healthcare), with earlier leadership roles at Willis Towers Watson, Extend Health, and eHealth.
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, the virtual-first chronic care company he started in 2011 after dropping out of Harvard's MD/MBA program. He took Omada public on the Nasdaq in June 2025 under the ticker OMDA, capping a fourteen-year build that began in a Chinatown coworking space and grew to roughly 850 employees.
Hamed Ahmadi
Hamed Ahmadi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Medsien, a leading AI-powered remote care management company headquartered in San Francisco. A PhD mathematician turned Silicon Valley engineer turned healthcare entrepreneur, Ahmadi co-founded Medsien in 2018 alongside Sina Torabi with a mission to extend quality care beyond clinic walls to the 150 million Americans living with chronic conditions. Under his leadership, Medsien has grown to 110 employees, $12.7M in annual revenue, and raised $5.3M in funding, powering remote care programs for hundreds of healthcare organizations across the US.
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI builds safety-focused generative AI agents for non-diagnostic, patient-facing clinical work - voice-based agents that handle care coordination, chronic disease check-ins, medication adherence, and patient education. Its Polaris constellation architecture coordinates dozens of specialized LLMs to keep conversations clinically safe, with humans escalating where needed.