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Henry DePhillips Put the House Call on a Screen - Then Followed the Data
Before virtual care became ordinary, Henry DePhillips was arguing that convenience still needed clinical discipline. His career traces healthcare's long migration from the exam room to the screen, and from the screen to the spreadsheet.
Ian Shaffer Built a Career Between the Exam Room and the System
For decades, the physician executive moved between clinical practice, corporate operations and public policy - turning frontline judgment into programs built to work at scale.
Matthew Wetschler Treats Company-Building Like a Creative Practice
The Plume co-founder took a scenic route through art, athletics, public service, medicine and startups. The thread connecting it all is a stubborn belief that systems should be designed around the people who actually use them.
Andrew Flanagan Is Making Telehealth Disappear
The Iris Telehealth CEO has spent a career turning technology into ordinary infrastructure. The idea at its center is simple: virtual care wins when nobody has to call it virtual anymore.
Jeff Beck Put the Clinician in the Room - Even When the Room Is Miles Away
A social worker, a school clinician and a string of 7 a.m. Panera meetings became AnswersNow. Jeff Beck's useful obsession is turning scarce expertise into support families can actually reach.
Sandra Abrevaya Knows How to Turn a Public Mission Into an Operating System
Before she built a company, Sandra Abrevaya learned how power actually moves - through campaigns, coalitions, city halls and the stubborn work of getting people into the same room.
Nicholas Barbara Is Building for the Other 167 Hours
A product operator and a speech therapist built Expressable around a stubborn idea: progress depends on what happens between appointments. Nicholas Barbara's job has been turning that insight into a company that can travel.
Peter Arn Learned to Make Growth Wait
The ROMTech co-founder built his playbook around unglamorous things: listening closely, testing early, raising patiently and knowing when more revenue is the wrong answer.
Suzie Devine Built BINTO by Treating Confusion as a Product Brief
The Philadelphia nurse-turned-founder built a company from questions nobody owned - then learned that the durable kind of growth begins when you stop confusing motion with progress.
Anna Lindow Built for the Patients the Startup Playbook Forgot
She took lessons from media, education and one stubborn Miami launch, then built a national company around an unfashionable question: who gets left out when convenience becomes the product?
Bruno Van Tuykom Is Building for the Patient the Market Forgot
An electrical engineer learned to see access as a systems problem. Now he and co-founder Amy Fan are turning an unfashionable constraint - serving people commonly ignored by digital care - into Twentyeight Health's operating design.
Tiffany Mullen Left the 10-Minute Visit and Built a Company Around Time
The Vytal Health founder traded a large health system for the unruly work of building a company - and made the unscalable act of listening the center of its model.
Adam Oskowitz Is Moving Medicine From the Operating Room to the Decision Loop
A vascular surgeon spent years making high-stakes decisions one patient at a time. Now he is building Doctronic around a harder question: how much good judgment can software deliver when the waiting room has no walls?
Victor Zhou
Victor Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of Klarity Health, a digital healthcare marketplace he started in 2020 to connect patients with independent, licensed telehealth providers. A UCLA graduate and repeat founder who previously built and sold Sentinel Tec, Zhou has grown Klarity to serve hundreds of thousands of patients across 45+ states and launched Kiwi Health, a SaaS growth platform for private practices, backed by investors including Mucker Capital, Atypical Ventures, and Zoom founder Eric Yuan.
David Stein
David Stein is the co-founder and CEO of Ash (formerly Ash Wellness), a New York-based B2B platform that lets healthcare organizations run their own at-home testing programs. He launched the company out of Cornell Tech's MBA program in 2019 after a frustrating personal experience getting sexual health testing, first building a direct-to-consumer brand for the LGBTQ+ community and then pivoting to white-label infrastructure for providers and payers during COVID-19. Today Ash handles kit design, a CLIA/CAP-certified lab network, logistics, and patient-facing software across all 50 states, and has shipped more than a million test kits.
Eric Rock
Eric Rock is the co-founder and CEO of Percipio Health, a Dallas-based company using AI and an ordinary smartphone - no medical devices - to collect whole-person health signals for scalable population health monitoring. A serial healthcare and technology entrepreneur, Rock previously founded ProHost (acquired by OpenTable), MEDHOST (a pioneering touchscreen emergency-department EMR), and Vivify Health, which grew into one of the largest remote patient monitoring platforms before Optum acquired it. Percipio launched in 2025 with $20M in Series A funding and a mission to bring proactive, low-cost care to entire populations.
Jake Cooper
Jake Cooper is the CEO and co-founder of Grow Therapy, a New York based company building the infrastructure that lets therapists and psychiatric providers run insurance-covered private practices. Since 2020 he has grown it into a national network spanning 125+ insurers and tens of thousands of providers, raising $388 million to date, including a $150 million Series D in 2026. A former Blackstone and Apollo private equity investor and summa cum laude Duke graduate, Cooper is focused on making mental health care easier to find, afford, and stick with.
Matt Kennedy
Matt Kennedy is co-founder and CEO of Mantra Health, a New York-based digital mental health company that partners with over 150 college and university campuses to deliver telepsychiatry, teletherapy and campus-wide wellness programs to more than 1.3 million students. He moved from COO to CEO in 2023, and leads a team of roughly 130 employees and 100+ in-house clinicians.
Michelle Davey
Michelle Davey is the co-founder and CEO of Wheel, an Austin-based virtual care platform she started in 2018 with Griffin Mulcahey. Wheel powers back-end telehealth infrastructure for retailers, payers, pharma companies, and digital health brands, and connects them to a nationwide network of clinicians. Before Wheel, Davey ran talent at a telehealth company and had earlier stints in recruiting and operations at Google, Favor, and Medtronic. She has raised more than $216 million for Wheel across four rounds, including a $150 million Series C in 2022.
Myriam Barthes
Myriam Barthes is the co-founder and CEO of Journey Clinical, a New York-based telehealth platform that provides the medical infrastructure for licensed psychotherapists to offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Starting in strategy consulting at EY and later working as an AI impact strategist at SparkBeyond, she launched Journey Clinical in 2020 with Jonathan Sabbagh and has grown it into the largest network of KAP-trained therapists in the United States.
Natan Wise
Natan Wise is the co-founder and CEO of Conduit Health, a New York based company that helps Medicare and Medicaid patients get insurance-covered medical supplies. In March 2026 the company raised a $17 million Series A led by Drive Capital, bringing total funding to $22 million. Before Conduit, Wise was Chief of Staff at Branded, held expansion and strategy roles at Candid Care, and was on the founding team at ConsenSys Ventures, where he worked on early seed checks into BlockFi, Starkware, and Quantstamp.
Noah Kotlove
Noah Kotlove is the co-founder and CEO of Berry Street, a New York-based telehealth platform that connects patients with insurance-covered registered dietitians and gives independent RDs the software to run their practices. He launched Berry Street in 2023 with Jesse Rose after his own experience with a dietitian led to sustained results where fad diets had not. Before Berry Street, Kotlove built Sobrietysoft, an addiction recovery app that grew to more than six million users, and worked as a senior innovation consultant at Accenture after graduating from Wharton. In February 2025 Berry Street raised a $50M Series B led by Northzone, with Sofina, FJ Labs, the founder of Revolut, the co-founders of Spring Health and Grow Therapy, and the CEO of Found also participating.
Ray Wolf
Ray Wolf is the CEO of Televero Behavioral Health, an Austin-based virtual mental health practice that ranked No. 54 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with 4,962% three-year growth. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from Rensselaer and executive education at Harvard and Stanford, he has spent three decades running operations at Pratt & Whitney, Dell, Brocade, Lumeris, Redirect Health and A2K Partners before taking Televero from a small telepsychiatry practice to a 110-person, multi-state provider network.
Stefan Bauer
Stefan Bauer is the co-founder and CEO of Marker Learning, a New York City telehealth company that connects families and schools with licensed psychologists for learning disability evaluations, cutting the traditional cost and turnaround time of assessments. A Yale School of Management MBA and former McKinsey and Morgan Stanley professional, Bauer co-founded the company with Emily Yudofsky in 2021; it has since raised $19.7 million in total funding, including a $15 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2023.
Uri Bettesh
Uri Bettesh is the founder and CEO of Datos Health, a remote care automation company he started in 2015 after a career in retail enterprise software. He spent almost two decades building point-of-sale and merchandising systems at Retalix and NCR before turning to healthcare, inspired by his father-in-law's sudden open-heart surgery. Datos builds a no-code platform that lets hospitals design and automate their own remote care programs across conditions like cardiac care, oncology and chronic disease, and it raised a $7M Series A in 2020 bringing total funding to $9.2M. Bettesh frames the work as building the foundation for the 'bedless hospital' - moving care out of the ward and into the home.
Vanessa Rissetto
Vanessa Rissetto is a registered dietitian nutritionist and the co-founder and CEO of Culina Health, a virtual, insurance-covered nutrition care company she started with fellow dietitian Tamar Samuels in 2020. A Fordham history major turned NYU marketing grad turned Mount Sinai senior dietitian, she ran the dietetic internship program at NYU before building Culina Health into a network of about 90 dietitians that has served more than 10,000 patients. In December 2024 she raised a $7.9 million Series A led by Healthworx, the venture arm of CareFirst. She is a frequent nutrition voice on the Today Show and in Vogue, The New York Times and Bon Appetit, and has been recognized by Goldman Sachs, Inc., Essence and NPR.
Lauren Berson Sugarman
Lauren Berson Sugarman is the founder and CEO of Conceive, a 24/7 fertility and pregnancy care platform she launched in 2021 after her own three-year journey to motherhood. An executive-turned-entrepreneur, she previously held senior roles at Andreessen Horowitz, WeightWatchers, Google, and Citi, and runs Sugarman Ventures as an angel investor with 15+ company investments.
Alexander Candelario
Alexander C. Candelario is the founder, CEO, and chairman of Intiva Health, an Austin-based healthcare company that began by rebuilding medical credentialing and has since grown into a multi-vertical group spanning the Incredable credentialing platform, the Nova Vita wellness centers, and Gummi World nutraceutical manufacturing. A CPA-trained forensic accountant and roughly 15-year Marine Corps veteran who rose from enlisted Force Recon to commissioned officer, he carries an unusual mix: combat-tested discipline, big-firm audit rigor from his Coopers & Lybrand days, and degrees from Texas A&M and Harvard. In 2025 he pushed credentialing onto the blockchain with the TIVA token, listed on MEXC Global, betting that verified professional trust can extend far beyond medicine.
Bimohit Bawa
Bimohit Bawa is the co-founder and CEO of TrueCare24, a San Francisco-based health and wellness marketplace that connects families and employers with vetted nurses, caregivers, and clinicians for in-home care, telehealth, and on-site COVID-19 testing and vaccination. A software engineer by training - IIT Roorkee, a master's from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Berkeley Haas - Bawa spent nearly a decade building systems at Cisco and ServiceSource before joining TrueCare24 as its founding technical lead in 2015. He has since steered the company through 500 Startups' accelerator, a pivot into pandemic-era testing logistics, and a current chapter rebuilding senior care around AI and automation.
Bora Hamamcioglu
Bora Hamamcioglu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mascotte Health, a Miami-based, tech-enabled support company that gives veterinary practices virtual triage, client communications, front-desk help, after-hours care and scribing so vets can focus on medicine instead of phones. A Turkish-American entrepreneur, he previously built and ran CarHopper, a luxury and exotic car-rental marketplace acquired by Turo in 2020, and worked as a Principal at Dubai's BECO Capital. Mascotte emerged from stealth in 2023 with an oversubscribed $1.2M pre-seed round led by Nuwa Capital, with angels from Uber, Turo and Airbnb.