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Ben Texter
From an electric-car startup to Blue State Digital to a decade building Digital Health Strategies, Ben Texter has made a career of turning complicated systems into clearer human journeys.
Healthengine
Healthengine is Australia's largest consumer healthcare marketplace, connecting millions of patients with thousands of GPs, dentists, allied health providers, specialists and pharmacies through a single online booking platform. Founded in 2006 in Perth by frustrated doctors, it lets people find, compare and book health appointments 24/7, while giving practices tools for online bookings, SMS reminders, recalls, reviews and patient engagement. More than 74 million appointments have been booked through the platform.
Amigo
Amigo is a New York-based healthcare AI company that builds a platform for designing, training, and deploying patient-facing clinical AI agents. Using a 'digital residency' model, its agents train on millions of simulated patient scenarios before handling real interactions such as intake, triage, care navigation, and 24/7 patient support. Founded by Ali Khokhar and John Xing, Amigo integrates with major EHRs (Epic, Oracle Health, Athenahealth), operates in 100+ languages, and reports more than three million patient encounters with zero safety incidents. It raised an $11M Series A in March 2026 led by Madrona, bringing total funding to $17M.
Ash
Ash (poweredbyash.com) is a New York-based health technology company that gives healthcare organizations a customizable, white-label platform for at-home diagnostic testing. Founded in 2019 as a direct-to-consumer sexual health testing service for the LGBTQ+ community, Ash pivoted to a B2B model that lets health plans, digital health companies and public health agencies launch branded testing programs across 100+ biomarkers in all 50 states. The company handles kit design, a vetted lab network, multilingual patient engagement, logistics and real-time reporting through one API, and has shipped more than 500,000 kits while helping organizations close care gaps and improve HEDIS and Star Ratings measures.
BetterHealthcare
BetterHealthcare is a New York-based healthcare technology company that modernizes patient access through its BetterAccess platform, a HIPAA-compliant SaaS product for online self-scheduling, telehealth booking, automated reminders and bi-directional integration with practice management and EHR systems. Founded in 2016 as BetterPT - a booking app for physical therapy - the company broadened into a full patient-access platform used across the continuum of care and was acquired by HealthBus (TRCM Fund) in January 2025.
Cedar
Cedar is a New York-based healthcare financial technology company that helps hospitals, physician groups and payers modernize the way patients understand and pay their medical bills. Founded in 2016 by Florian Otto and Ariel Lidow, Cedar combines consumer-grade digital billing, personalized payment plans, coverage and benefits tools, and AI-powered support - including its Kora AI voice agent - into a single patient financial engagement platform. It works with more than 55 leading health systems and payers, has processed billions of dollars in patient payments, and reached a $3.2 billion valuation after a 2021 Series D.
Confido Health
Confido Health builds AI voice and messaging agents that answer patient phone calls for healthcare providers around the clock. The agents pick up on the first ring, authenticate callers, check insurance eligibility, and resolve routine requests end-to-end - scheduling, refills, referrals, payments, intake and post-visit follow-up - writing every interaction back into the practice's EHR or practice-management system. Founded in 2023 and based in New York, the company raised a $10M Series A in September 2025 and provides access to more than 1 million patients.
Coro Health
Coro Health is an Austin-based healthcare technology company that delivers clinically proven therapeutic music and multi-faith spiritual programming through a fully licensed streaming service built specifically for care settings. Its flagship MusicFirst platform uses a patented Music Prescription Builder - designed by music therapists, neuroscientists, and music designers - to generate individualized programs shown in peer-reviewed trials to reduce depression and agitation in dementia and long-term care residents. The company also offers FaithFirst multi-faith content and EnrichFirst entertainment, reaching more than a million annual users across thousands of senior living communities and hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.
Courier Health
Courier Health is a New York City software company building the first patient relationship management (CRM) platform purpose-built for life sciences. Its AI-powered system connects fragmented data across biopharma commercial teams to orchestrate the patient journey - from education and enrollment through benefits, prior authorization, therapy initiation, and adherence - helping patients with chronic and rare diseases start and stay on treatment. The company raised a $50M Series B led by Oak HC/FT in April 2026.
Embleema
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.
Huma
Huma is a London-based digital health technology company that builds a regulated, modular software platform used by hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and governments to run remote patient monitoring, 'hospital at home', companion apps and decentralized clinical trials. Founded in 2011 as Medopad and rebranded to Huma in 2020, it combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers and real-world data with a no-code Huma Cloud Platform so partners can launch regulated, disease- and device-agnostic health apps. Its Software as a Medical Device holds EU MDR Class IIb, US FDA Class II and UK MHRA registrations, and its technology has reached thousands of hospitals and tens of millions of patients worldwide.
Vital Interaction
Vital Interaction is an Austin, Texas healthcare technology company that blends patient data, business intelligence, and workflow automation to help medical practices communicate with patients across text, voice, and email. Founded in 2009, its platform automates appointment reminders, recalls, reactivations, referrals, and surveys so practices can cut no-shows, close care gaps, and re-engage patients. The company says it serves more than 13,000 providers and delivers over 40 million personalized messages a year to more than 5 million patients, and in early 2024 it raised a $15 million Series A led by Next Coast Ventures.
Jack Gierlich
Jack Gierlich is a Brooklyn-based growth marketing founder and fractional CMO who has spent 15+ years scaling healthcare, SaaS, and AI companies. He leads marketing and growth at Leal Health (formerly TrialJectory), an AI-powered platform that helps cancer patients find advanced treatment options, and he moderates several of the largest marketing and business communities on Reddit, reaching millions of readers a month. He describes his craft as building marketing systems that compound rather than one-off campaigns.
Collectly
Collectly is a San Francisco-based healthcare fintech that automates the patient side of revenue cycle management. Its AI platform plugs into more than 20 EHR and practice-management systems to run digital billing, eligibility checks, cost estimates, payments and follow-up, so medical groups collect more, faster, with fewer staff hours. Founded in 2017 and a Y Combinator graduate, Collectly says it serves 3,000+ healthcare facilities and has processed over $1 billion in patient payments. In 2025 it launched Billie, a 24/7 AI agent that answers patient billing questions and takes action across voice, chat, text and email.
Doctronic
Doctronic is a New York-based health technology company building an AI-native primary care platform. Its free, anonymous AI doctor gives instant symptom assessments and treatment guidance grounded in peer-reviewed research, and connects patients to licensed physicians for $39 video visits or an insurance copay. Founded in 2023 by technologist Matt Pavelle and vascular surgeon Dr. Adam Oskowitz, the company has processed more than 15 million medical conversations, became the first AI to legally renew prescriptions in the U.S. under Utah's regulatory sandbox, and has raised $65 million across three rounds in under a year.
Arini
Arini is a San Francisco-based AI company that builds a voice and text receptionist for dental practices. Its AI agent answers patient calls 24/7, books and reschedules appointments directly into practice management software, and handles insurance and billing questions - aiming to recover the revenue clinics lose when front desks miss roughly a third of inbound calls. Founded in 2024 by Abdulrahman Jamjoom and Rami Rustom, both former engineers on Meta's Threads team, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and now handles over 15,000 patient calls a day for dental groups and DSOs across the US and Canada.
Chronica
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.
Clarion
Clarion builds an AI communication layer for healthcare that answers the phones, texts, and web chats clinics can't keep up with. Its voice, SMS, and web agents handle scheduling, prescription refills, billing questions, referral intake, and after-hours follow-up, integrating with 80-plus EHR systems including Epic and Cerner. Founded in 2024 by a Stanford/Harvard-trained physician and an ex-Amazon Alexa voice-AI engineer, the New York company is a Y Combinator W24 startup backed by Accel and Airtable Ventures, and says it serves tens of thousands of patients a month across virtual-care companies, health systems, and a large health insurer.
Conceive
Conceive is a New York-based virtual fertility company that acts as an always-on care layer wrapped around the fertility and pregnancy journey. Founded in 2021 by Lauren Berson after her own three-year struggle with infertility, it pairs 24/7 nurse and coach support with cohort-based community and evidence-based education. Members reach a real person - a nurse, coach, or dietitian - in minutes rather than waiting weeks for a clinic callback, and the company sells both direct-to-consumer subscriptions and a B2B layer to fertility clinics.
Fidari
Fidari is a healthtech company building digital infrastructure for oncology navigation. Its software plugs into existing EHR systems via FHIR/HL7 to automate patient-navigation workflows, capture navigation billing revenue, and connect cancer patients to supportive and ancillary services through an integrated marketplace. Founded in 2023 and led by second-time healthcare founder Othman Ouenes, Fidari pairs AI-driven triage with human navigators to support patients from diagnosis through survivorship, while generating research-ready real-world data for life-sciences partners.
GenieMD
GenieMD is a San Ramon, California virtual care company that sells a single, white-label platform folding together telehealth, remote patient monitoring, remote therapeutic monitoring and chronic care management - plus built-in e-prescriptions, lab integration and CPT billing reports. Founded in 2010 by Stanford-trained engineer Soheil Saadat, it sells to hospitals, health systems, group practices, insurers, ACOs and employers, and in 2026 launched HelloGenie, a free AI doctor that hands patients off to real board-certified physicians when actual care is needed. Frost & Sullivan named it 2024 Company of the Year for virtual chronic disease management.
Grapevine Health
Grapevine Health is a Washington, DC-based digital health media company founded by physician and epidemiologist Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick. It creates culturally relevant, plain-language health content and delivers it through trusted messengers, street-level conversations, and an SMS platform called HealthText to raise health literacy and build trust among Medicaid enrollees and other underserved communities.
Manta Cares
Manta Cares is a San Francisco-based digital health company redesigning the cancer experience for patients and caregivers. Founded by breast cancer survivor Samira Daswani, it offers a free, HIPAA-compliant, AI-enabled platform - featuring subway-style Cancer Maps, a symptom and appointment planner, and expert-reviewed resources vetted by 100+ oncologists - that turns the chaotic cancer journey into a navigable path. The company launched publicly in November 2025 with an oversubscribed $5.4M seed round led by Pear VC and Sozo Ventures.
Mural Health
Mural Health is a Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based clinical research technology company whose Mural Link platform is billed as the industry's first participant management system. It combines patient payments, travel and rideshare booking, two-way messaging, and real-time experience feedback into one participant-first tool aimed at helping people enroll in and stay in clinical trials while easing the administrative burden on research sites and sponsors. Founded in 2022 by Sam Whitaker - the inventor of the original ClinCard payment technology at Greenphire - the company positions itself against legacy prepaid-card systems, notably by eliminating the inactivity fees that quietly drain participant balances.
OutcomesAI
OutcomesAI is a Boston-based healthcare company building a new model of scalable nursing. Its AI engine, Glia, pairs AI voice agents with licensed nurses to automate routine patient interactions - triage, scheduling, follow-ups, and patient support - while giving nurses real-time scribing and protocol guidance. The company says the hybrid model creates 3-5x more nursing capacity and cuts costs 40-50% versus outsourced triage. Founded by Biofourmis founder Kuldeep Singh Rajput, OutcomesAI raised $10M in seed funding led by Santé Ventures in October 2025.
Reviva
Reviva is an AI-native practice management platform and EHR built for cash-pay health and wellness practices - medical spas, longevity clinics, IV therapy bars, and functional medicine providers. It folds scheduling, charting, payments, memberships, CRM, and marketing automation into a single system you can operate by telling it what to do. Founded in 2024 by Valerie Huynh and Jane Jeong, the daughters of immigrant small-business owners, Reviva aims to give solo and small wellness practices the kind of software leverage that used to belong only to big hospital systems.
Tellescope
Tellescope is a HIPAA-compliant digital health platform that unifies patient communication, intake, scheduling, and workflow automation into a single, developer-friendly system. Built for digital health startups and modern clinics, it lets care teams reach patients across SMS, email, chat, and video, automate repetitive workflows without code, and plug into EHRs and clinical tools through an API-first architecture - so teams can launch faster and scale personalized care without stitching together generic sales software.
Matthew Loper
Matthew Loper is the co-founder and CEO of Wellth, a Los Angeles digital-health company that pays people small cash rewards for sticking to their care plans. A biological engineer from MIT turned healthcare banker and investor, he built Wellth around behavioral economics rather than technology - the idea that immediate, tangible incentives change what people actually do about their chronic conditions. Under his leadership Wellth has raised more than $73 million, including an oversubscribed $36 million Series C in 2025, and reports steep drops in hospital and emergency-room use among the high-need Medicare and Medicaid populations it serves.
Trayt Health
Trayt Health is a Menlo Park, California company building a patient-centric, clinician-directed software platform that coordinates behavioral and mental health care across primary care, schools, and specialty clinicians. Its platform powers statewide psychiatry access programs and managed care organizations by tracking 750+ symptoms and factors, streamlining consultations and referrals, and turning granular patient data into population-level insights. As of 2026 it supports roughly 20 statewide behavioral health programs across eight U.S. states.
Lisa Fitzpatrick
Lisa Fitzpatrick is an infectious-disease physician, medical epidemiologist, and founder and CEO of Grapevine Health, a Washington, DC digital health media company that uses street interviews, plain-language video, and text messaging to build trust and health literacy in Black and brown communities. A former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, Caribbean health diplomat, and chief medical officer for DC Medicaid, she became known as 'Dr. Lisa on the Street' for standing on sidewalks to answer real people's medical questions and bust misinformation.