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No Fear Counselling Turned the Hardest Part of Therapy Into Its Business
The Burnaby practice did not invent a new kind of therapy. It made the old kind easier to enter - then used a sprawling therapist network, low-cost training pipeline and two mergers to turn access into the product.
The $100,000 Problem Hiding Under a Patient's Foot - and the 20-Second Habit Podimetrics Built to Catch It
Podimetrics began with an insole, survived an electrical-tape prototype, and found its business in a deceptively simple ritual: stand still for 20 seconds before a wound becomes a crisis.
Crossover Health Couldn't Sell Better Primary Care One Patient at a Time - So It Sold the Whole System to Employers
A consumer clinic taught physician-founder Scott Shreeve that better care was not enough - distribution was the real diagnosis. Crossover's employer pivot turned one awkward storefront into a hybrid care network, and a 2026 merger gave the model national heft.
Carenet Health Turned Healthcare’s Messiest Phone Calls Into a 500-Client Operating System
Carenet’s bet is that the most expensive gap in American healthcare is often a missed call, a confusing benefit or an appointment never booked. It sells the people, software and clinical workflows to close that gap - at a scale that now reaches one in three Americans.
Best Buy Paid $400 Million for Current Health. Then Its Founder Bought the Company Back - and Narrowed the Bet
Current Health began with a wearable, grew into a hospital-at-home operating system, and became a $400 million retail-health wager. Its second act is more disciplined: help hospitals and drugmakers move the hardest care out of the building without making clinicians gamble on safety.
Vytal Health Bet Patients Would Pay to Be Heard - Then Built a $300-a-Month Alternative to the 10-Minute Visit
The Milwaukee telehealth practice asks patients to pay outside insurance for time, continuity and deeper testing. Its early obstacle was convincing people that a video visit could still feel human; its sharper 2026 answer is a two-tier membership with unusually clear boundaries.
Brave Health Bet on the Patients Telehealth Forgot - Then Had to Make the Math Work
Most virtual-therapy companies chased easy-to-reach customers. Brave Health built for Medicaid members, where the hard part is not launching a video call - it is finding patients, accepting their insurance and keeping care financially sustainable.
Twentyeight Health Put Medicaid at the Center - Then Built the Women’s Clinic the Internet Was Missing
The company started with a five-minute birth-control intake. Its bigger bet is that accepting Medicaid, stitching care to insurance and staying useful after the first prescription can turn a commodity telehealth visit into a durable women’s-health platform.
The Campus Clinic That Never Closes
TimelyCare turned the overloaded campus counseling center into a 24/7 care network. Now its bet is that colleges will pay not only for access, but for proof that students get better - and stay enrolled.
Ardent Health
Ardent Health is betting that a hospital system can stay local while its technology, purchasing and operating discipline scale nationally. Across six states, the result is a care network stretching from the emergency room to the smartphone.
Oscar Health
Oscar Health began with a friendly app and an unfriendly problem: American health insurance. Fourteen years later, its bigger bet is that the individual market can become the operating system for how people buy care.
Teladoc Health
Teladoc made the video visit ordinary. Now it is attempting the harder trick: turning urgent care, therapy, chronic-condition coaching and hospital technology into one accountable system of care.
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.
Berry Street
Berry Street is a New York-based digital health company that connects patients with registered dietitians for insurance-covered, virtual nutrition therapy while giving those dietitians an AI-enabled 'business-in-a-box' to run independent practices. Founded in 2023 by Noah Kotlove and Jesse Rose, the platform pairs a consumer marketplace - where most clients pay $0 out of pocket - with back-office tooling that handles insurance credentialing, claims, documentation and patient communication. It works with a network of more than 1,000 dietitians and 1,250-plus insurance plans, and raised a $50 million Series B in early 2025.
Datos Health
Datos Health is an AI-driven remote care company that lets hospitals and health systems build and deploy personalized remote patient monitoring programs without code. Its OpenCare platform pairs a drag-and-drop Design Studio with patient-facing CareApps and a robotic-process-automation engine, so care teams can automate everything from cardiac rehab to hospital-at-home and oncology follow-up. Founded in 2015 by Uri Bettesh after a family cardiac emergency, the company is device-agnostic, integrates with existing EHRs, and was named to TIME's list of the World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025.
Dimer Health
Dimer Health is a clinician-led, AI-native transitional care company that manages the high-risk 30 days after a hospital discharge. It pairs licensed clinicians - who it calls Transitionists - with a proprietary clinical AI system, AiME, to monitor patients at home, catch complications early, and reduce avoidable readmissions. Founded in 2023 and based in Florham Park, New Jersey, the company operates a virtual medical practice embedded within health systems and payor networks across eight states.
Televero Behavioral Health
Televero Behavioral Health is an Austin, Texas physician-led virtual behavioral health practice that delivers online therapy, psychiatry, medication management, and neurotesting for conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD and autism. Built as a licensed medical practice rather than an app or marketplace, it pairs same-day and same-week access with clinical oversight from MDs, nurse practitioners and licensed counselors, and accepts commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid so cost is not a barrier to care.
Vytalize Health
Vytalize Health is a value-based care enabler and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that helps independent primary care physicians care for Medicare patients while lowering the total cost of care. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, it pairs a physician-built clinical data platform (Vytal Insights) with a wraparound clinical team and virtual clinic (Vytal Care) so small practices can succeed in Medicare's advanced value-based programs like ACO REACH and MSSP. The company serves hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries across dozens of states and was named the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America by Inc. in 2024.
Wheel
Wheel is an Austin-based virtual care company that provides the behind-the-scenes infrastructure powering telehealth for health plans, retailers, pharma and digital health brands. Rather than running its own branded clinic, Wheel supplies a configurable platform, a nationwide network of licensed clinicians and the compliance and operations layer companies need to launch and scale virtual care programs. Its Horizon platform, launched in 2024, layers AI and condition-specific care programs on top of a data-first EHR. Wheel says it has delivered care to more than four million people and has raised roughly $216 million, including a $150 million Series C in 2022.
Klarity Health
Klarity Health is a U.S. telehealth marketplace that connects patients with thousands of independent, licensed and board-certified providers for affordable online care across mental health, ADHD, weight loss, primary care and more than 200 conditions. Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 mental health surge, the company pairs a consumer-facing appointment platform with software, marketing and back-office tools that let solo practitioners run profitable virtual practices - an operating model it extended in 2025 with the launch of Kiwi Health, a growth and engagement SaaS built for private providers.
Millie
Millie is a San Francisco Bay Area maternity and women's health clinic built around a midwifery-led, tech-enabled model. Founded in 2022 by Anu Sharma after her own near-fatal birth experience, it pairs Certified Nurse Midwives and OB-GYN backup with a dedicated doula (a 'Millie Guide'), a proprietary app, remote monitoring, and virtual visits to cover pregnancy, postpartum, gynecology, and menopause. The company accepts most major insurance and has raised roughly $19 million to date, including a $12M Series A in February 2025 from an all-female roster of investors.
Plume Clinic
Plume Clinic is a Denver-based telehealth company built for and largely by the transgender community, offering gender-affirming hormone therapy, everyday medical care, medical letters of support, and community programming entirely through a phone. Founded in 2019 by physicians Dr. Jerrica Kirkley and Dr. Matthew Wetschler, Plume has served over 50,000 trans and gender non-conforming people across nearly every U.S. state, positioning itself as the first and largest health-tech company designed specifically for trans lives.
Dandi Fertility
Dandi Fertility is a New York-based femtech company that makes the physical and emotional grind of IVF a little less lonely. Its patent-pending IVF Care Kit - a heating pad, cooling pad, shot targets, a hands-free supply belt and a massage ball - is paired with a virtual care platform staffed by registered fertility nurses licensed across all 50 states. Founded in 2021 by fertility nurse Leyla Bilali and CEO Jake Kent, Dandi sells directly to patients and to fertility clinics, and its Care Kit was named one of TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2024.
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.
Mavida Health
Mavida Health is a Los Angeles digital health company delivering specialized virtual mental health care for women navigating reproductive milestones - pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, loss, and menopause. Founded in 2023 by reproductive psychiatrist Dr. Sarah Oreck and health-tech operator Emma Sugerman, it pairs one-on-one and group therapy, family counseling, and prescribing with community programming under the banner 'mental healthcare for every mama.' The company reached licensed clinical operations across California, New York, New Jersey, and Texas, and in June 2026 was acquired by insurer WPS Health Solutions to run as an independent subsidiary.
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.
River Health
River Health is a Minneapolis digital health company building the first health plan designed specifically for hourly and mixed workforces - the roughly 75 million American workers who earn too much for Medicaid but can't afford traditional insurance. For a flat monthly fee with no copays, deductibles, or hidden charges, members get virtual and in-person primary care, behavioral health, labs, and prescriptions delivered to their door. River sells directly to employers like Taco Bell and Raising Cane's who want to offer real benefits to workers the insurance industry has long ignored.
Rovi Health
Rovi Health is a New York-based digital health startup (Y Combinator F25) that gives employer health plans an AI-powered, text-first care concierge. Members text a nurse-guided clinician who treats common conditions virtually, then steer them to high-quality, in-network providers using terabytes of price and quality data - catching expensive care before it is scheduled. Founded in 2025 by brothers Santosh and Tarun Vallabhaneni, Rovi claims employers can cut 10-20% of annual healthcare spend while employees get concierge-level care.
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.
Kivo Health
Kivo Health delivers virtual pulmonary rehabilitation for people living with COPD. Patients receive a Kivo Kit - a cellular-connected iPad, Bluetooth pulse oximeter, and exercise bands - then join live small-group video sessions with licensed respiratory therapists twice a week from their living rooms. The Y Combinator-backed, San Francisco company partners with health systems like UCLA Health, UCSF Health, Cedars-Sinai, and Novant Health to keep Medicare members out of the hospital while improving symptoms, activity, and mood.