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The Eyewear Chain That Turned a Mall Counter Into Malaysia’s Vision-Care Network
Focus Point sells frames and lenses, but its larger bet is that the optical shop can become the front door to preventive eye care. More than 200 stores, an expanding clinical toolkit and a knack for serving different budgets have turned one small counter into a national network.
Eden Care Medical
Eden Care Medical is a licensed digital health insurer building the claims and distribution infrastructure that modernizes health insurance in Africa. Starting in Rwanda and expanding into Kenya, it sells group health cover to employers and their staff, then runs the whole value chain - HR admin portal, an employee app for navigating care and wellness, and digital tools for hospitals and clinics - to cut the cost of insurance in a market where operating costs run 2.2x the global average and penetration sits near 0.2%.
Prana
Prana is a San Francisco startup building a 24/7 AI doctor that watches your health data between checkups. It pulls your medical records and wearable data into one clinical timeline, watches for early warning signs the company calls 'clinical drift' - rising blood pressure or glucose weeks before a crisis - and lets you chat with its AI for free or see a real physician for a flat $39 visit. Founded by Meer Patel, Vishvam Rawal, and Sanjit Menon, Prana launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Cameron Howieson
Cameron Howieson is the co-founder and CEO of Opencare, a Toronto-based digital health company that connects patients with a curated network of top-rated dentists across North America. A computer engineer by training, he co-founded the stock-research startup Vuru (acquired by Wave Accounting in 2012) before helping build Opencare, where he moved from CTO to COO to CEO. His work centers on making preventive dental care transparent, convenient and comfortable for patients.
Function Health
Function Health is an Austin-based membership platform that gives consumers direct access to 100-plus lab tests, optional full-body MRI scans, and AI-generated insights for a flat annual fee. Founded in 2021 and led by CEO Jonathan Swerdlin with physician co-founder Mark Hyman, the company sells a data-first, preventive approach to healthcare aimed at helping members catch problems early and track their biology over time. After a $298M Series B in November 2025 at a $2.5B valuation, Function has become one of the fastest-growing consumer health companies in the US.
Simple HealthKit
Simple HealthKit is a Milpitas, California-based digital health company building end-to-end healthcare infrastructure that unifies at-home and in-clinic diagnostics, a CLIA-certified lab, telehealth, and follow-up care into a single platform. Founded in 2018 by biochemist Sheena Menezes, the company targets health equity by making testing for sexual health, respiratory illness (COVID/flu/RSV), and chronic conditions like diabetes accessible and affordable for underserved populations, selling primarily to health plans, retailers, pharmacies, employers, schools, and public health organizations.
Vitable Health
Vitable Health is a Philadelphia-based health benefits company that gives hourly and blue-collar workers affordable access to primary care. Founded in 2020 by Joseph Kitonga, it pairs virtual and in-person direct primary care - visits, over 1,000 free prescriptions, common lab tests, mental health support and care navigation - with an integrated ICHRA platform, so small and mid-sized employers can offer real coverage to workers who typically fall between Medicaid eligibility and pricey commercial insurance. Employers pay roughly $30 per employee per month, and the company says it has made more than 100,000 lives eligible for care.
Rony Sellam
Rony Sellam is the CEO of InsideTracker, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based personalized-health company that uses blood biomarkers, DNA and lifestyle data to give consumers actionable recommendations for extending healthspan. A former Deloitte consultant from France by way of Geneva and a longtime healthcare IT executive, he has run InsideTracker for over a decade and helped push the company past 100,000 members and into partnerships with Oura and Fitness SF.
Arlo
Arlo is a New York-based health insurance startup rebuilding coverage for small and mid-sized businesses. It pairs AI-driven underwriting with value-based care and cost transparency to offer level-funded plans that make big-company benefits available to teams of roughly 10 to 150 employees, without the big-company admin. Founded in 2022 by former Palantir team lead Jan-Felix Schneider and ex-Finch engineering lead Karthik Bhaskara, Arlo raised a $4M seed round in 2025 led by Upfront Ventures and works with reinsurer Nationwide.
GENETICA® US
Genetica is a San Francisco-founded gene decoding company built for Asian genomes. It pairs a proprietary genotyping chip - manufactured with Illumina and Thermo Fisher - with AI analysis to turn a saliva sample into reports on health risks, innate ability, behavior, nutrition and fitness. Marketed direct-to-consumer across Vietnam and Southeast Asia, its CLIA- and CAP-certified pipeline is reviewed by scientists tied to UCSF, Harvard, Stanford and Cornell.
The Lanby
The Lanby is a membership-based, hospitality-led primary care practice in New York City that reimagines concierge medicine for a modern, prevention-minded patient. Founded in 2021 by breast cancer survivor Chloe Harrouche, it pairs every member with a dedicated care team - a lead physician, wellness advisor, medical assistant, physician associate, and member advocate - to connect the dots across medicine, wellness, and care coordination. For a flat annual fee and no insurance friction, members get unlimited visits, advanced diagnostics with 85+ biomarkers, personalized care plans, and expedited specialist referrals.
TrueCare24
TrueCare24 is a nationwide health and wellness platform that connects families and employers with vetted, on-demand healthcare providers - at home, on-site, or virtually. Founded in 2016 and backed by 500 Startups, its AI-driven marketplace handles scheduling, provider matching, replacements, payroll and taxes, offering senior home care, behavioral health counseling, on-site flu and COVID-19 vaccination, workplace testing, and telehealth across all 50 states, while cutting the typical cost of care from $25+ an hour to roughly $10-18.
Teal Health
Teal Health is a San Francisco women's health company behind the Teal Wand, the first and only FDA-authorized at-home self-collection device for cervical cancer screening. Founded by Stanford physician-researcher Dr. Avnesh Thakor and CEO Kara Egan, the company pairs a comfortable, tampon-like self-collection device with a women's telehealth platform so people with a cervix can screen for HPV at home and skip the stirrups. The device uses the same clinically validated Roche cobas HPV test that providers use in-clinic, detecting cervical precancer 96% of the time, and shipped nationwide to all 50 states after winning FDA authorization in May 2025.
Bold
Bold is a Los Angeles-based digital healthy-aging company that delivers personalized, clinically validated exercise, nutrition, and virtual-care programs to older adults. Available at no cost to roughly 12 million Medicare members through partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans and provider groups, Bold treats movement as medicine: its programs have been shown to reduce falls by up to 46%, increase weekly physical activity by 182%, and earn 91% member satisfaction. Founded by Amanda Rees and Hari Arul, the company has raised $27 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and Rethink Impact.
Curative
Curative is an Austin-based health insurance company that pivoted from being one of the largest U.S. COVID-19 testing providers into an employer-sponsored health plan with a simple promise: $0 copays, $0 deductibles, and $0 out-of-pocket costs for in-network care, provided members complete an annual preventive Baseline Visit. Founded in 2020 by Fred Turner, Isaac Turner, and Vlad Slepnev, the company packages insurance, pharmacy, telehealth, and care navigation into a single monthly premium aimed at removing the financial friction that keeps people from using their coverage.
Greater Good Health
Greater Good Health is a Los Angeles-based healthcare company rethinking primary care for seniors. It runs value-based primary care clinics and clinical programs built around a nurse practitioner-centric care model, designed to manage complex Medicare populations through proactive, preventive, whole-person care. The company partners with health plans and risk-bearing organizations to expand access where physician shortages have left aging patients underserved.
Nest Health
Nest Health is a New Orleans-based value-based care company that brings primary medical, behavioral, and social care directly into the homes of families on Medicaid. Founded in 2021 by Dr. Rebekah Gee and Rebecca Kavoussi, the company offers 24/7 in-home and virtual visits at no additional cost to eligible families, treating the whole household - children, parents, and postpartum mothers - under one roof. Its model has reduced emergency room use, doubled vaccination rates, and delivered a two-to-one return for payer partners across Louisiana and Arizona.
Summer Health
Summer Health is a New York-based pediatric care company that gives parents access to board-certified pediatricians by text message, with answers in about 15 minutes, day or night. Founded in 2022 by Ellen DaSilva and Matthew Woo, it pairs a 24/7 text line with specialists in sleep, nutrition and lactation, and has expanded into longitudinal pediatric primary care - including a comprehensive children's blood panel reviewed by a pediatrician. The company aims to be the calm, always-on front door for family health.
ONVI, LLC.
ONVI is a Chicago-based oral health technology company building what it calls an operating system for dental care. Founded by dentist Dr. Craig S. Kohler, the company pairs camera-equipped brushes - led by the Prophix video toothbrush - with a HIPAA-compliant software platform, ONView, that links what people see in their own mouths to their dentists. In August 2025 ONVI launched a $25 million Series A to commercialize a six-product hardware-and-software system aimed at closing the visibility gap between dental visits.
Clairity, Inc.
Clairity is a Boston-based healthtech company that built Clairity Breast, the first FDA-authorized AI platform that predicts a woman's five-year risk of breast cancer directly from a routine screening mammogram. Founded by Harvard radiologist Dr. Connie Lehman, the company turns images already sitting in the medical record into a forward-looking risk score, aiming to move breast care from late-stage detection toward early, equitable prevention.
Evvy
Evvy is a precision women's health company building the first AI-powered vaginal healthcare platform around a CLIA-certified, at-home metagenomic vaginal microbiome test. Founded in 2021 by Stanford alums Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek, Evvy pairs state-of-the-art testing that screens for 700+ bacteria and fungi with clinician-reviewed results, personalized prescription treatment, and one-on-one health coaching. By generating one of the largest datasets on female biomarkers, Evvy aims to close the gender health gap - starting with conditions like bacterial vaginosis that have been chronically under-researched.
Hone Health
Hone Health is a New York-based telemedicine clinic built for preventive and longevity care. It pairs at-home and in-person testing of 40+ biomarkers with physician-guided treatment plans for hormone optimization, menopause, weight loss, sexual health, thyroid and more, delivered nationwide on a subscription model starting around $129/month. After raising a $33M Series A in January 2025 and acquiring in-home care company ivee, Hone has tested 300,000+ patients and treats roughly 55,000 active members.
Juno Medical
Juno Medical is a tech-enabled, family-first medical practice that combines modern clinics with a digital patient platform to deliver primary care, pediatrics, women's health, same-day care, mental health, and more. Founded in 2020 by physician Akili Hinson, MD, Juno builds in historically underserved neighborhoods and prices care transparently for families who fall between concierge membership clinics and Medicaid/Medicare-focused providers - what it calls the 99%.
Carbon Health
Carbon Health is an American chain of tech-enabled primary and urgent care clinics that pairs brick-and-mortar visits with telemedicine, all running on its own AI-powered electronic health record. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco by Udemy co-founder Eren Bali, it set out to make seeing a doctor feel as simple as using a consumer app - same-day appointments, transparent records, and a single platform tying diagnostics, virtual visits, and prescriptions together. After raising more than $600 million and scaling past 100 clinics, the company filed for Chapter 11 in February 2026 to restructure its debt while continuing to operate.
Clover Health
Clover Health is a Medicare Advantage insurer that runs on software. Its flagship platform, Clover Assistant, feeds physicians AI-driven, point-of-care insights drawn from millions of health data points so they can catch chronic disease earlier and treat it cheaper. After a rocky SPAC debut in 2021, the company reached adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2024, grew Medicare Advantage membership past 150,000, and is guiding to its first-ever full-year GAAP net income in 2026.
CommuniCare+OLE
CommuniCare+OLE is a nonprofit network of federally qualified health centers serving Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties in Northern California. Formed in 2023 by the merger of OLE Health and CommuniCare Health Centers - two organizations that both opened their doors in 1972 - it delivers comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, substance use, nutrition, optometry, and pharmacy care to more than 70,000 patients across 17 sites, regardless of insurance status, immigration status, or ability to pay.
Hello Heart
Hello Heart is a Menlo Park-based digital health company exclusively focused on cardiovascular health. Founded in 2013, it offers an AI-powered mobile app paired with a connected blood pressure monitor and smart pill box that helps members understand, track, and improve their heart health. Deployed through employers, health plans, and Medicare Advantage programs, Hello Heart has served users at 150+ Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. Independent peer-reviewed studies - including a JAMA study of 28,000+ participants - show that 84% of high-risk users reduced blood pressure over three years, with average medical cost savings exceeding $1,700 per enrolled member per year. The company has raised $148.5 million in total funding, most recently a $70 million Series D in May 2022.
Twin Health
Twin Health builds a Whole Body Digital Twin - a real-time AI model of each member's metabolism that learns from wearable sensors, labs, and daily behavior to reverse type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other chronic metabolic conditions without long-term reliance on medications.
Vivoo
Vivoo is a San Francisco-based health tech company that makes at-home urine test strips analyzed via smartphone camera. Founded in 2017, the company offers a wellness platform that measures 8+ biomarkers — including hydration, vitamins, minerals, pH, ketones, and oxidative stress — and delivers personalized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations through a free mobile app. Backed by $19.4M in funding led by Tim Draper, Vivoo is sold at Target, Walmart, and Sam's Club, and has expanded to 100+ countries with a focus on making lab-grade health insights accessible to everyday consumers.