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WellSky Put a $1.35 Billion Bridge Between the Hospital and Home
The former Mediware spent years assembling the overlooked machinery of post-acute care. Now its biggest test is turning a cabinet of specialist software into one intelligent network - without making care teams learn another disconnected tool.
Lifespark's $36 Million Bet: Fix Senior Care by Owning the Handoffs
Most senior-care failures happen between appointments, providers, and payment systems. Lifespark spent two decades assembling the pieces under one roof - and now it has to prove that integration can travel beyond Minnesota.
The Doctor Who Traded the Exam Room for the Cap Table
A physician-turned-financier is buying up the unglamorous engine room of American healthcare - the home aides, clinical trial sites and hospice teams that most funds overlook.
The Family Business Built to Make Aging Less Disruptive
SALMON Health and Retirement has spent more than seven decades assembling the pieces of later life under one family roof. Its product is not one building or one level of care, but fewer hard resets when needs change.
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.
Humana
How a 1961 nursing-home bet in Louisville became a Medicare Advantage powerhouse - and why Humana is now buying the clinic, the pharmacy and the house call instead of just the insurance card.
MochaCare
MochaCare is a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch that runs the back office of home care agencies. It pairs AI agents with human operators to handle hiring, scheduling, and client intake end to end, so agency owners can spend less time on operations and more time growing and serving their communities.
Arya Health
Arya Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company building AI-powered digital agents that automate the non-clinical administrative work of distributed care - onboarding, scheduling, compliance, payroll, and hiring. Its agents plug into existing electronic medical records so home health and post-acute providers can spend more of every dollar on patients and caregivers instead of paperwork. Founded in 2022 by Kunal Sarda and Arunram Kalaiselvan, the company raised an $18.2M Series A in 2025 led by ACME Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $25M.
Casana
Casana is a Rochester, New York digital-health company that builds the Smart Seat (originally the Heart Seat), a toilet-seat replacement that passively measures vital signs - heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, respiration rate and blood pressure insights - while a person simply sits, with no wearables, charging or behavior change required. Spun out of research done by founder Nicholas Conn during his PhD at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the company earned FDA 510(k) clearance in 2023 and launched a consumer version of the seat in July 2026.
Conduit Health
Conduit Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company that rebuilds the path to insurance-covered home medical supplies for Medicare and Medicaid patients. It combines clinical evaluation, insurance authorization, and physical supply fulfillment into one vertically integrated platform, powered by CareOS - an agentic AI engine trained on 50,000+ patient interactions that predicts approval likelihood and automates payer paperwork. Founded in 2024 by Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel, Conduit has delivered supplies to more than 50,000 patients and works with 100+ health plans covering nearly 90 million lives.
Kunal Sarda
Kunal Sarda is the co-founder and CEO of Arya Health, a New York startup building AI-powered digital agents that automate the administrative work behind home health, home care, and hospice. He raised an $18.2M Series A led by ACME Capital in 2025, bringing Arya's total funding to roughly $25M. Before Arya, Sarda co-founded VerbalizeIt, a human-powered translation platform that appeared on Shark Tank and was acquired by Smartling in 2016, where he then led customer engagement. A Wharton MBA, he named the company after his daughter, Arya.
Compassus
Compassus is a national home-based care company headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, delivering hospice, palliative care, home health and home infusion services to patients wherever they call home. Jointly owned by TowerBrook Capital Partners and the Catholic health system Ascension, Compassus operates across roughly 30 states with about 8,000 employees and has built its growth around joint ventures with major health systems - including OhioHealth, Providence and Ascension - so that hospitals can extend care into the home under a shared brand while Compassus runs the clinical operations.
Verse Medical
Verse Medical is a New York-based healthtech company building the software infrastructure for in-home healthcare, starting with durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. Its platform helps hospitals, payors, and care teams order and coordinate equipment like catheters, wound dressings, and diabetes supplies - replacing a fax-and-phone-call process with real-time insurance verification, medical-record-level documentation checks, and centralized order tracking. Founded in 2018 by Dhaivat Pandya out of Y Combinator, Verse today works with many of the largest U.S. health systems and is backed by investors including SignalFire, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Abstract Ventures.
Bloomlife
Bloomlife is a San Francisco maternal health company that pairs FDA-cleared wearable sensors with a connected-care platform so high-risk pregnancies can be monitored from home. Born from a co-founder's own NICU experience, the company shifts prenatal care out of the clinic and into the living room - tracking fetal heart rate, blood pressure and glucose, then feeding the data to clinicians through risk-stratification tools meant to catch complications earlier.
David Bell
David Bell is the founder and CEO of IO Health, a Pasadena-based AI startup building a real-time workflow intelligence layer that sits on top of existing EMRs to help home health and hospice clinicians document care accurately at the point of care. Before IO Health he spent roughly a decade as owner-operator and CEO of GrandCare Health Services, which he grew into a 5-star-rated Southern California home health provider before it was acquired by The Pennant Group in 2025. An engineer-turned-operator with degrees spanning physics, business, and rehabilitation robotics, Bell raised a $2M seed round led by Nina Capital in October 2025 to scale IO Health's compliance and quality platform.
Mike Asselta
Mike Asselta is the chief executive officer of Compassus, one of the largest home-based care companies in the United States, spanning home health, hospice, palliative care and infusion therapy across some 200 locations. Appointed in May 2024, he came from nearly eight years at Fresenius Medical Care North America, where he ran U.S. care delivery and Fresenius Kidney Care - an operation of more than 60,000 employees and 4,000 sites. At Compassus he has bet the company's growth on joint ventures with major health systems like Providence and OhioHealth, arguing that the future of care happens where people actually live: at home.
ExaCare AI
ExaCare AI is a New York-based healthcare technology company building an AI operating system for post-acute and senior care. Its suite of AI agents reads messy referral packets, recommends patient placements, automates reimbursement and documentation, and surfaces clinical risk so that care teams in skilled nursing, home health, and hospice spend less time on paperwork and more time on patients. Founded in 2022 by Laird Russell and Ben Willox, the company powers roughly 1,500-2,000 facilities nationwide and raised a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Accompany Health
Accompany Health is a Bethesda, Maryland-based healthcare company building integrated primary, behavioral, and social care for low-income patients with complex medical needs. Founded in 2022 and publicly launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding, the company pairs a proprietary care-model technology platform with at-home and virtual visits, 24/7 support, and help navigating benefits like Medicaid and SNAP. It aims to be the kind of patient-centered, dignified care system that high-need, under-resourced patients rarely get.
Olli Health
Olli Health is a Madison, Wisconsin healthtech company that runs an AI-powered managed service for home health coding and OASIS quality review. It pairs proprietary clinical AI with certified human coders to turn raw patient charts into accurate ICD-10 diagnosis codes and reviewed documentation - reportedly at 98%+ accuracy, roughly 4x faster turnaround, and about half the cost of traditional coding vendors. Founded in 2023 by Eric Steege, Joe Freudenthal, and Jeremy Gordon, Olli serves home health agencies that collectively care for hundreds of thousands of patients, and raised a $10M Series A in late 2025.
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.
Eric Steege
Eric Steege is the CEO and cofounder of Olli Health, a Madison, Wisconsin healthtech startup using AI to handle home-health agency coding, OASIS review, and clinical documentation. After more than four years as a product lead on Amazon Alexa's generative AI and subscriptions team - where he launched Alexa's first direct-to-consumer subscription for older adults and caregivers - he co-founded Olli in 2023 to cut the cost and turnaround time of the paperwork that slows down home health reimbursement. By late 2025 the company served over 100 home health agencies and raised a $10M Series A led by Industry Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $13M.
Carepod
Carepod makes the world's simplest and cleanest stainless steel humidifiers - filter-free, three-piece units with hospital-grade interiors that can be sterilized with boiling water. Invented by dentist Dr. Hyung Joo Kim after he found conventional humidifiers were impossible to clean and breeding bacteria, Carepod sells doctor-designed, award-winning humidifiers direct to consumers. After becoming the top-selling humidifier in Korea, the brand launched in the U.S. in 2021 and has shipped hundreds of thousands of units worldwide.
Bristol Hospice
Bristol Hospice is a Salt Lake City-based provider of hospice and palliative care that has grown from a single Utah location in 2006 into a national operator running roughly 78-80 locations across 25 states. Backed by private equity firm Webster Equity Partners, it offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, and specialty comfort programs for dementia, respiratory disease, sleep, and veterans, with a mission centered on compassion, respect, and 'a reverence for life.'
David Pearlstein
David Pearlstein is the Chief Executive Officer of New Horizons In-Home Care, Oregon's largest in-home care agency with over 570 employees and 12 locations statewide. A serial entrepreneur with 30+ years spanning healthcare, insurance, and real estate, Pearlstein built and sold multiple companies before taking the helm at New Horizons — transforming it into an award-winning, people-first organization recognized for both care quality and employer culture. Based in Lafayette, California, he leads a company providing around-the-clock care to seniors, adults with disabilities, and medically fragile children across Oregon.
WelbeHealth
WelbeHealth is a Menlo Park-based public benefit company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) centers across California, delivering comprehensive medical, social, and in-home care that lets frail seniors keep living in their own communities instead of nursing homes.