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Culina Health
Culina Health is a virtual nutrition care company founded in 2020 by registered dietitians Vanessa Rissetto and Tamar Samuels. It pairs patients with credentialed registered dietitians for one-on-one, insurance-covered nutrition therapy delivered via telehealth across all 50 states. The company blends evidence-based clinical care with culturally affirming, multilingual support to treat conditions ranging from diabetes and heart disease to GI disorders and eating disorders, while partnering with major insurers, Medicare, and employers to make expert nutrition care accessible.
Good Health Company (Mars by GHC)
Good Health Company, known by its flagship brand Mars by GHC, is a Hyderabad-based direct-to-consumer men's health and wellness platform founded in 2021 by Samarth Sindhi. It pairs free online doctor consultations with science-backed products across hair, beard, skin, sexual health, weight, and general wellness, then ships personalized treatment courses to customers' doors. A women's vertical, Saturn by GHC, extends the same full-stack model to female personal care.
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%.
NeoLife International
NeoLife International is a Santa Clara, California whole-food nutrition company founded in 1958 by Jerry Brassfield. For more than six decades it has built non-GMO supplements, weight-management products, skin care and earth-friendly home care that are sold through a network of independent distributors in over 50 countries. Its formulas are vetted by the NeoLife Scientific Advisory Board, founded in 1976 by toxicologist Arthur Furst, Ph.D. Today the founder's daughter, Kendra Brassfield, runs the company as CEO.
Vida Health
Vida Health is a San Francisco-based digital health company that pairs an AI-powered, personalized app with human coaches, dietitians, therapists, and physicians to prevent, manage, and reverse chronic physical and mental conditions. Its virtual cardiometabolic clinic treats obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and the depression and anxiety that travel with them, and is sold to employers and health plans as a clinically validated, cost-managed alternative to fragmented point solutions, including responsible GLP-1 prescribing.
Lark Health
Lark Health is a Mountain View-based digital health company that delivers 24/7, AI-powered nurse coaching for chronic conditions - diabetes, hypertension, weight, behavioral health and tobacco cessation - through a text-message-style app paired with connected devices. Built on cognitive behavioral therapy and used by major payers, Lark scales personalized care to tens of millions of covered lives.
Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer
Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Signos, the company behind the first FDA-cleared over-the-counter glucose monitoring system for weight management. A Princeton computer science graduate and Harvard MBA, he played NCAA Division I ice hockey before building a career spanning VC at Sierra and Shasta Ventures, co-founding PR tech company AirPR (later Onclusive), and ultimately creating Signos in 2018 after his own lifelong struggle with weight and the death of his diabetic grandmother inspired him to ask: why wait until someone is sick to give them metabolic data?