Matt Kennedy is co-founder and CEO of Mantra Health, a New York-based digital mental health company that partners with over 150 college and university campuses to deliver telepsychiatry, teletherapy and campus-wide wellness programs to more than 1.3 million students. He moved from COO to CEO in 2023, and leads a team of roughly 130 employees and 100+ in-house clinicians.
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.
Gratia Health is an Austin-based health-tech startup that turns everyday clinical work into measurable results. Its Workforce Activation Platform uses behavioral-science-designed incentives, real-time recognition, and gamification - points, badges, streaks, and patient shoutouts - to help hospitals keep nurses engaged, cover shifts, and cut spending on expensive contract labor. Emerged from stealth in November 2023 with seed funding led by JumpStart Capital and a launch partnership with ScionHealth's 70-plus specialty hospitals.
HueDx is a Philadelphia diagnostics company - formerly Group K Diagnostics - that turns any smartphone camera into a reader for lab-grade, quantitative color-based tests. Its patented HueCard color-correction hardware and AI-powered HueTools/HueCloud software let researchers develop, validate, and deploy paper-based colorimetric assays without proprietary readers or lab infrastructure, aiming to make quantitative results available at the point of care and at home.
Lauren Berson Sugarman is the founder and CEO of Conceive, a 24/7 fertility and pregnancy care platform she launched in 2021 after her own three-year journey to motherhood. An executive-turned-entrepreneur, she previously held senior roles at Andreessen Horowitz, WeightWatchers, Google, and Citi, and runs Sugarman Ventures as an angel investor with 15+ company investments.
Canvas Medical builds programmable EMR infrastructure for the companies reinventing how care gets delivered. Its ONC-certified electronic medical record pairs a FHIR API and a Workflow SDK so clinicians and developers can extend the chart like software, then layers AI agents - led by the open-source Hyperscribe ambient copilot - that listen, document, place orders, and prep claims in real time. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Canvas powers primary care, behavioral health, weight loss, longevity, and other modern clinics that want their EMR to bend to their workflows instead of the other way around.
identifeye HEALTH (formerly Tesseract Health) builds an AI-powered retinal imaging platform that turns a quick eye scan in a primary-care clinic into a window onto whole-body health, helping clinicians screen for diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration without dilation or specialty equipment.
Kivo Health delivers virtual pulmonary rehabilitation for people living with COPD. Patients receive a Kivo Kit - a cellular-connected iPad, Bluetooth pulse oximeter, and exercise bands - then join live small-group video sessions with licensed respiratory therapists twice a week from their living rooms. The Y Combinator-backed, San Francisco company partners with health systems like UCLA Health, UCSF Health, Cedars-Sinai, and Novant Health to keep Medicare members out of the hospital while improving symptoms, activity, and mood.
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.
G-Tech Medical builds the GutTracker, a thin wireless wearable patch its team calls an 'EKG for the Gut.' Worn on the abdomen for up to six days at home, the patch reads the faint electrical signals that drive the stomach, small intestine, and colon, then streams them over Bluetooth to the cloud, where algorithms turn the noise into patient-specific motility data. The Mountain View company aims to replace short, single-organ, in-clinic tests with continuous, whole-gut measurement so physicians can finally see how a digestive system actually behaves day to day.
Good Health Company, known by its flagship brand Mars by GHC, is a Hyderabad-based direct-to-consumer men's health and wellness platform founded in 2021 by Samarth Sindhi. It pairs free online doctor consultations with science-backed products across hair, beard, skin, sexual health, weight, and general wellness, then ships personalized treatment courses to customers' doors. A women's vertical, Saturn by GHC, extends the same full-stack model to female personal care.
Samphire Neuroscience is a London-based neurotechnology company building drug-free, hormone-free wearables for women's health. Its flagship product, Nettle, is a headband that uses transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to gently modulate the brain regions tied to mood and pain, worn 20 minutes a day in the run-up to menstruation. Marketed as the first EU-cleared (CE-certified) neuromodulation device for women's health, Nettle targets PMS, PMDD, menstrual pain and related hormonal conditions. Founded in 2021 by neuroscientist Emilė Radytė and IP lawyer Alex Cook, the company has raised roughly $7.77M across pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds.
Surest is a UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored health plan that strips out deductibles and coinsurance and instead shows members clear, upfront prices for care before they book it. Founded in 2016 as Bind in Minneapolis, the plan lets people compare providers and treatment options by cost and quality through an app, then pay a single known copay. Rebranded from Bind to Surest in 2022 after UnitedHealthcare took majority ownership, it has grown into the fastest-growing plan in UnitedHealthcare's book, serving close to one million members across employers from family businesses to the Fortune 100.
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.
MD Ally is a New York-based health-tech company that plugs telehealth directly into the 911 system. Founded in 2018 by Shanel Fields, the daughter of a volunteer EMT, the platform adds a 'virtual response tier' so dispatchers can route non-emergency callers to the right care instead of automatically sending an ambulance and an ER trip. By partnering with public-safety agencies and insurance payors, MD Ally cuts unnecessary emergency costs while connecting patients to telehealth, mental health and social services.
Sovato is a Santa Barbara health-tech company building the first comprehensive, system-agnostic platform for remote robotic surgery and procedures - what the industry calls telesurgery. Co-founded by surgical-robotics pioneer Yulun Wang and healthcare strategist Cynthia Perazzo, Sovato lets a skilled surgeon operate a robotic system from hundreds or thousands of miles away, aiming to extend top surgical care to patients regardless of where they live. The company has raised $41M across its rounds and helped enable the longest-distance telesurgery ever completed.
Ophelia is a New York-based telehealth company making evidence-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment available from home. It connects people to licensed clinicians for medication-assisted treatment (buprenorphine/Suboxone), with video visits, on-demand messaging, and care coordination, deliberately removing the friction and stigma of traditional rehab. Founded in 2019 by Zack Gray after he lost a loved one to an overdose, Ophelia focuses heavily on Medicaid and rural populations and has raised roughly $68 million, including a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global in 2021.
Sesame is a direct-pay, cash-only healthcare marketplace that lets patients shop for doctor visits, labs, imaging, prescriptions and specialty care online without insurance. Often called 'the Expedia for medical care,' it lists transparent prices from thousands of providers across all 50 states, with one-time visits starting around $39 and memberships from $19. Founded in 2018 by David Goldhill, Michael Botta and John Fontein, Sesame aims to strip bureaucracy out of healthcare so patients and clinicians transact directly.
Anthony Costello is the CEO of Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systèmes company, and one of clinical research technology's most seasoned architects. With nearly 30 years in the field, he started as a data manager at Genentech, co-founded two companies (Nextrials and Mytrus), and was acquired by Medidata before rising to lead it. Today he oversees over 8,000 active clinical studies globally each year, championing AI-driven trial innovation, decentralized models, and patient-centric design at the White House Clinical Trials Forum and beyond.
Bobn L is the Chief Executive Officer of GoodRx, the Santa Monica-based digital health company that has become America's most-used prescription savings platform. GoodRx tracks drug prices across 75,000+ pharmacies nationwide, delivering coupons and transparency to millions of Americans navigating the opaque world of prescription pricing. Under executive leadership, GoodRx has grown to nearly $800 million in annual revenue, gone public on Nasdaq (GDRX), and expanded into telemedicine - all in service of a single idea: that patients deserve to know what their medications actually cost.
Brightside Health is a national virtual mental healthcare company delivering psychiatry, therapy and crisis care for people with depression, anxiety, and elevated suicide risk - powered by a proprietary AI platform and a 50-state clinician network, with coverage through major commercial insurers, Medicare and Medicaid.
Carrum Health is a value-based healthcare marketplace that connects self-insured employers directly to top regional providers through bundled, upfront payments for surgery, cancer care, and other planned procedures. Founded in 2014, it pairs Centers of Excellence with a guided patient app to deliver transparent pricing and better outcomes.
Foodsmart (formerly Zipongo) is a San Francisco-based telenutrition company that pairs registered dietitians with a food benefits marketplace to treat diet-related chronic disease and food insecurity. It serves more than 2.2 million members across employer plans, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and commercial insurers, and in 2024 raised $200M led by TPG's The Rise Fund to expand its 'Foodscripts' food-as-medicine programs with major U.S. health systems.
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.
HealthTap is a Sunnyvale-based digital health company that connects patients with board-certified physicians 24/7 through video, phone, and text consultations. Founded in 2010, it operates a platform of 105,000 doctors across 141 specialties serving 23 million monthly members. The company pairs AI-powered symptom checking with live clinical consultations, offering affordable virtual primary and urgent care via subscription or per-visit pricing. Recent partnerships with Samsung Health, Eli Lilly's LillyDirect, and Commure signal a shift toward deep integration with major consumer and clinical platforms.
Hello Heart is a Menlo Park-based digital health company exclusively focused on cardiovascular health. Founded in 2013, it offers an AI-powered mobile app paired with a connected blood pressure monitor and smart pill box that helps members understand, track, and improve their heart health. Deployed through employers, health plans, and Medicare Advantage programs, Hello Heart has served users at 150+ Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. Independent peer-reviewed studies - including a JAMA study of 28,000+ participants - show that 84% of high-risk users reduced blood pressure over three years, with average medical cost savings exceeding $1,700 per enrolled member per year. The company has raised $148.5 million in total funding, most recently a $70 million Series D in May 2022.
Adnan Iqbal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Luma Health, a San Mateo-based healthcare technology company that has built an AI-native Patient Success Platform used by 750+ healthcare organizations, 100 million patients, and 500,000+ providers. A second-generation Pakistani-American and serial entrepreneur, Iqbal studied environmental biology at UC Berkeley, earned an MPhil in BioScience from Cambridge University, and an MS/MBA from Stanford GSB. Before Luma, he spent five years in management at Genentech and co-founded AutoTB, a tuberculosis diagnostic startup that won both Cambridge and UC Berkeley entrepreneurship competitions. Luma Health has raised $160 million in funding and enabled $3.2 billion in healthcare revenue.
Alex Alvarado is the co-founder and CEO of Daybreak Health, a school-based teletherapy platform that partners with K-12 school districts to deliver personalized mental health support to students. Inspired by his younger brother's struggle with depression and his family's difficulty finding affordable, accessible care, Alvarado launched Daybreak Health in 2020 through Y Combinator's S20 cohort. The company has since raised $25 million in total funding, serves 100+ school districts, and reaches over 1 million students nationwide - with 81% showing clinical improvements in anxiety and depression assessments. Alvarado grew up in Seattle as the oldest of five children to educator parents, attended Stanford University where he studied economics and public policy, and went on to work at the U.S. Treasury, Kaiser Family Foundation, Oliver Wyman, and Castlight Health before founding Daybreak.
Andrew Lacy is the Founder and CEO of Prenuvo, the company making proactive whole-body MRI scanning a mainstream healthcare tool. A Melbourne-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur, he previously co-founded Tapulous - the mobile gaming company behind Tap Tap Revenge, acquired by Disney in 2010 - before pivoting to healthcare. At Prenuvo, he has raised $177M in total funding (including a $120M Series B in 2024), grown the company to 110,000+ members across 17 North American clinics, and secured FDA clearance for AI-powered body composition analysis, with plans to expand into Europe and Australia.
Bask Gill is the Co-Founder of Power (withpower.com), a San Francisco-based clinical trial platform that uses AI to match patients with clinical trials. After watching his father struggle to navigate a broken clinical trial discovery system following a multiple myeloma diagnosis, Bask co-founded Power in May 2021 alongside Brandon Li. The platform has connected over 600,000 patients to trials across 10,000+ medical conditions, with 40% being non-white patients - a deliberate focus on diversity and access. Power has raised $19M in funding including a $12M Series A in early 2024, and grown to 230 employees.