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Medly made the pharmacy disappear. Then it disappeared.
Free delivery. Real pharmacists. One less errand. Medly understood what patients wanted, but its collapse exposed the distance between a useful service and a business you can trust.
Your report. In a language you understand.
Medsplain began with friends forwarding medical reports to a doctor. Now its founder is turning that familiar favor into tools for translating reports, organizing records, and asking better questions.
Seanergy.ai closes the gap between knowing and doing
A bus report, a delayed shipment, a missed booking. Seanergy.ai builds the data systems and conversational agents that help businesses do something about them.
Mindbowser makes the pieces talk
Healthcare has plenty of software. Mindbowser has built a business around the awkward space between the systems - and the people who need them to work together.
LITSLINK builds the software behind the show
A hospital VR project reveals the quieter business of LITSLINK: building the systems that let a promising idea survive everyday use.
Abacus Insights makes the data usable.
Health plans have plenty of information. Abacus Insights tackles the expensive work of making it agree, arrive on time and earn its keep.
Gritstone makes the busywork disappear
A recruiter, a restaurant manager, and a doctor have something in common: too much work between the work. Gritstone Technologies builds software for those gaps.
SenecaGlobal: Keep the knowledge. Change the software.
Software gets replaced. The knowledge behind it is harder to rebuild. SenecaGlobal’s bet is that lasting engineering teams can make the next change less painful.
HTD Health makes the hard parts work
A surgical care app can look simple. Making it work means untangling clinical workflows, patient habits, and stubborn data systems. That is where HTD Health earns its keep.
CareStack and the space between patients
A dental practice runs on a hundred small handoffs. CareStack wants the booking, the chart, the claim and the payment to travel together.
Rightway wants you to stop shopping for rebates.
A father and son set out to give employees a doctor in the family. Their next discovery: better advice could only go so far while the pharmacy bill played by different rules.
Excellarate made a business of the hard parts
Pharmacy systems. Insurance workflows. Software that has to keep working while it changes. Excellarate built its business inside these awkward problems, then became part of a much bigger engineering story.
HHAeXchange connects the visit to the paycheck.
Home care runs on human relationships. HHAeXchange handles the awkward journey from a caregiver arriving at the door to an agency getting paid.
Judi Health wants your benefits to speak the same language
A pharmacy benefits challenger found a bigger problem hiding in the paperwork. Judi Health is putting medical and pharmacy claims on the same system - and selling the machinery to other benefit administrators.
Amtex Systems makes the numbers agree.
Before a company can put AI to work, its systems need to tell the same story. Amtex built a business in the space between the software companies buy and the way people actually use it.
Lumata Health and the Space Between Visits
The treatment exists. Getting back to the clinic is the hard part. Lumata Health builds a business around the calls, rides and small explanations that help patients keep their sight.
Thyme Care and the space between appointments
Cancer treatment has a calendar. Cancer does not. Thyme Care built a business around the questions, symptoms and small emergencies that arrive between visits.
Medikabazaar: The hospital behind the hospital
A hospital can have the right doctors and still be missing the right supplies. Medikabazaar built a business around that gap - then had to confront gaps in its own controls.
The VentureX builds accelerators for the real world
A farm, a film company and a tourism business need different kinds of help. The VentureX has built its business around taking that difference seriously.
UNSW Founders makes the first startup mistake cheaper
A university can teach you to build something. UNSW Founders adds the awkward questions, the prototype tools and the people who might help you turn it into a business.
Nex Cubed bets on the founders venture capital keeps missing
A free HBCU startup program exposed an expensive omission: promising founders still needed money. Nex Cubed answered with a venture fund, $120,000 initial investments and advisors paid to get their hands dirty.
DLabs and the awkward art of becoming a business
A prototype can impress a room and still go nowhere. At the Indian School of Business, DLabs helps founders tackle the less glamorous work: validation, market access and investment readiness.
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area sells scientists a head start
A biotech company can lose months before its first experiment. In the Basel Area, shared labs and room to grow turn the landlord into part of the research strategy.
MassChallenge opens doors. You keep the equity.
The nonprofit accelerator has built a business around getting founders into rooms they could not enter alone. Its price for a place at the table: no ownership stake.
Accelerator Centre: Keep the equity. Change the plan.
Waterloo’s nonprofit accelerator helps technology founders turn promising inventions into businesses. Its useful trick is pairing advice with the money, sales practice and industry access needed to act on it.
KK Fund bets on the people who know the way in
A Singapore venture firm connects early-stage Asian startups with capital, industry knowledge and a Japanese investor network. Its most useful lesson: a promising market is easier to enter when somebody already knows the door.
MaRS Discovery District: Great science needs a buyer
Toronto built a place where research could meet money. MaRS’s harder assignment is getting promising technology through the door of its first paying customer.
Tampa Bay Wave opens doors without taking equity
Its startups have raised more than $2 billion. The useful story is how a Tampa nonprofit turned a meetup into a system for getting founders into the right rooms.
NEMIC helps medical ideas survive the expensive middle
A good medical idea can arrive years before a fundable business. In Providence, NEMIC works on the awkward interval between the two.
Axilor Ventures: good advice needs a cheque
The Infosys veterans behind Axilor built a 100-day accelerator, then listened when founders asked for capital. Its evolution explains what a seed investor can do between a promising idea and a business someone will pay for.