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The Dermatologist in the Camera Roll
A photograph can cross a county faster than a dermatologist. DirectDerm built a practice around that simple advantage, then learned that some answers still need a room, a biopsy and a doctor nearby.
The House Call Has a Routing Problem
Sprinter Health discovered the limit of telehealth: a screen cannot draw blood. Its answer is a house call built like a delivery network - human at the doorstep, software behind the wheel.
Brightline Learned the Waiting Room Was the Product
Brightline raised more than $200 million to take pediatric mental health nationwide. Then it retreated from 45 states, opened real clinics, and discovered that access is not the same thing as presence.
DoctorHere Learned Telehealth's Hard Lesson: Sometimes the Winning App Is a Clinic
The Korean-American health startup began by putting doctors on a screen. Its more revealing move was opening doors in Manhattan, New Jersey and inside major employers - a hybrid-care playbook built around access, continuity and the stubborn usefulness of a room.
Crossover Health Couldn't Sell Better Primary Care One Patient at a Time - So It Sold the Whole System to Employers
A consumer clinic taught physician-founder Scott Shreeve that better care was not enough - distribution was the real diagnosis. Crossover's employer pivot turned one awkward storefront into a hybrid care network, and a 2026 merger gave the model national heft.
Millie
Millie is a San Francisco Bay Area maternity and women's health clinic built around a midwifery-led, tech-enabled model. Founded in 2022 by Anu Sharma after her own near-fatal birth experience, it pairs Certified Nurse Midwives and OB-GYN backup with a dedicated doula (a 'Millie Guide'), a proprietary app, remote monitoring, and virtual visits to cover pregnancy, postpartum, gynecology, and menopause. The company accepts most major insurance and has raised roughly $19 million to date, including a $12M Series A in February 2025 from an all-female roster of investors.
Karoo Health
Karoo Health is an Albuquerque, New Mexico company building tech-enabled, value-based cardiovascular care. It pairs wraparound care teams - nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, health coaches and advanced-practice providers - with Kohere.ai, a proprietary platform that aggregates patient data, flags risk and coordinates communication. The model helps cardiology networks, health systems and health plans move from fee-for-service to value-based arrangements, aiming to improve heart-patient outcomes while lowering the cost of care.
Oula
Oula is a modern maternity and gynecology clinic that blends midwifery with obstetrics in a single, collaborative care model. Founded in New York in 2019 and opening its first Brooklyn clinic in 2021, Oula pairs in-person visits with virtual check-ins and care navigators to deliver personalized, evidence-based pregnancy, postpartum, and women's health care. The company reports outcomes that beat NYC benchmarks across race and payer type, accepts insurance and Medicaid, and is expanding beyond New York City after raising a $28M Series B in 2024.