Culina Health is a virtual nutrition care company founded in 2020 by registered dietitians Vanessa Rissetto and Tamar Samuels. It pairs patients with credentialed registered dietitians for one-on-one, insurance-covered nutrition therapy delivered via telehealth across all 50 states. The company blends evidence-based clinical care with culturally affirming, multilingual support to treat conditions ranging from diabetes and heart disease to GI disorders and eating disorders, while partnering with major insurers, Medicare, and employers to make expert nutrition care accessible.
Embleema is a New York- and France-based healthcare technology company that builds a unified real-world data and evidence platform for clinical research. It aggregates clinical, genomic, and patient-reported data from electronic medical records, wearables, biospecimens, and patient apps into regulatory-grade datasets, and uses no-code protocol tools plus dynamic consent to help pharmaceutical sponsors, research sites, and patient groups run non-interventional and Phase IV studies faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2017 by Robert Chu, the company started with a patient-driven health blockchain and its analytics stack has been used by the FDA for genomic regulatory review.
IgniteData is a healthtech company automating the transfer of clinical trial data between hospital electronic health records (EHRs) and sponsors' electronic data capture (EDC) systems. Its flagship platform, Archer, is a cloud-based, system-agnostic 'Virtual Research Assistant' that uses HL7 FHIR and SMART on FHIR APIs to move clinically validated data securely and automatically, cutting manual transcription, reducing source data verification, and helping treatments reach patients faster. Founded in the UK and now operating on both sides of the Atlantic, IgniteData works with pharmaceutical sponsors like AstraZeneca and research hospitals including UCLH, Cambridge University Hospitals, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Marker Learning is a New York-based company that makes learning-disability evaluations more accessible and less time-consuming. Founded by Stefan Bauer and Emily Yudofsky - both diagnosed with dyslexia as children - the company began by bringing remote, lower-cost psychological assessments for conditions like dyslexia and ADHD to families and schools. It has since built an AI-assisted report-writing platform for special education teams and school psychologists that turns referral and assessment documents into structured, citation-backed draft reports, cutting report writing from hours to minutes while keeping clinical judgment with the evaluator.
MDClone is a healthcare data company that lets clinicians, researchers, and analysts explore patient data without touching real patient records. Its ADAMS platform ingests structured and unstructured health-system data into a longitudinal database, then generates statistically faithful synthetic data that carries no risk to patient privacy. That combination turns months-long, IRB-heavy data requests into self-service exploration, letting front-line staff ask their own questions, run analyses, and share results across organizations. Founded in Israel in 2016 and used across the U.S., Canada, and 100% of the Israeli healthcare market, MDClone has raised roughly $112M to expand data-driven discovery in health systems, government, payers, and life sciences.
Univfy is a California-based health-AI company that uses machine learning to give IVF patients personalized, center-specific predictions of their probability of a live birth. Founded by Stanford researchers Dr. Mylene Yao and Prof. Wing H. Wong, its platform analyzes thousands of real IVF cycles to move beyond age-only estimates, powering patient counseling, fertility benefits for employers and health plans, and IVF refund/warranty programs that make treatment more affordable and predictable.
Fullpower-AI is a Santa Cruz, California science-and-technology company that builds real-time, contactless AI biosensing for sleep, remote patient monitoring, and longevity. Founded in 2005 by camera-phone pioneer Philippe Kahn and Sonia Lee, it operates the Sleeptracker-AI platform and the KOA Large Action Model, powering more than 300,000 Tempur-Pedic smartbeds and over 1.5 million connected devices across 60+ countries, backed by 135+ patents and ISO 27001 certification.
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.