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GroundGame.Health makes the referral only the beginning
A ride, a meal, a working phone: small interventions can decide whether healthcare happens at all. GroundGame.Health connects the people who need help, the neighbors who deliver it, and the institutions that pay.
Grayce and the Job Nobody Applied For
A family crisis can turn an employee into a care coordinator overnight. Grayce built a business around sharing that second job, then referred its clients to Cariloop in 2025.
DigitalHealth.London tackles the hard part: getting the NHS to use your idea
A working health app is only the beginning. DigitalHealth.London helps founders find the evidence, relationships and practical footing to turn a promising product into something the NHS can use.
Florence wants to end the care home phone chase
Florence began by connecting care workers with empty shifts. Its bigger bet is that care providers will pay to bring rotas, training, payroll and even rival agencies into the same system.
Beam stopped passing the hat. Now it sells time back.
The company that crowdfunded routes out of homelessness now sells AI tools to frontline services. Its wager: less paperwork can buy more time for people.
Blooming Health
Blooming Health is a New York-based social care technology company using AI to automate access to social services for older adults and vulnerable populations. Its AI-assisted, multilingual platform engages people across text, voice, and email to detect needs, screen for benefits, and connect them to services like meals, transportation, housing assistance, and Medicaid or SNAP recertification. Sold to Area Agencies on Aging, government agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers, the platform has connected over 1.5 million people across roughly two dozen states and raised $32.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025.
Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi
Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi is co-founder and CEO of Blooming Health, a New York City startup that uses AI to automate outreach, screening, and referrals for social care - the food, transportation, and support services that sit outside the doctor's office but often decide how a person actually fares. He is a former global data science lead with a decade in machine learning for healthcare and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started the company in East Harlem in 2020 after becoming a full-time caregiver for his mother-in-law during the pandemic; it has since raised $32.5M, including a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025, and operates across 25 states.
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.
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.
Rahul Rajkumar
Rahul Rajkumar is the founder and CEO of Accompany Health, a Bethesda, Maryland company delivering home-based, technology-enabled primary, behavioral, and social care to low-income Americans with complex needs, especially dual-eligible Medicare-Medicaid patients. A Yale-trained physician and lawyer who holds an MD and a JD, he spent 15 years redesigning how the U.S. pays for and delivers care, from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to chief medical officer roles at CareFirst and Blue Cross North Carolina and COO of Optum Care Solutions. Accompany Health launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding led by Venrock, ARCH Venture Partners, and IVP.