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Alex Arevalos and the education of a founder
A kitchen-table beginning, a Rice doctorate and a succession of Houston startups taught Alex Arevalos how much of company building happens beyond the invention. Starling’s former CEO carries that education into his next venture.
Hannah McKenney-Klepcha Is Building a Company Around the Data We Flush Away
The Starling CEO has spent her career turning overlooked routines into design briefs. Her wager is simple: the most useful health technology may be the one people barely notice using.
Starling Medical
Starling Medical is a Houston-based digital health company (Y Combinator W22) building an at-home urine monitoring platform that clips onto a toilet and analyzes urine at every bathroom visit. Using spectroscopy sensors and AI, its UrinDx / StarStream device sends readings to a clinical care team that follows up when something looks off, aiming to catch recurrent UTIs, BPH flare-ups, kidney disease and diabetes complications before they become hospitalizations. The company bills through remote patient monitoring reimbursements, turning routine bathroom trips into a continuous diagnostic stream.