StartUp Health

Founded in 2011, StartUp Health is dedicated to improving global health through collaboration with entrepreneurs. It invests in 'Health Transformers' across six continents, focusing on various health moonshots such as Access to Care, Cure Disease, and Mental Health. With over 330 companies in its portfolio, it's backed by prominent investors.

Joshua Cherry-Seto

Partner and CFO

Katya Hancock

Partner and Chief Impact Officer

Steven Krein JD

Managing Partner

Priya Reddy

Associate

Unity Stoakes

President

Past deals in Health Insurance

Vitalize Care

Venture Round in 2022
Vitalize Care builds software for healthcare organizations to optimize clinical operations, beginning with staffing and scheduling to reduce labor costs and improve efficiency, while easing administrative burdens on clinical leaders. The company also offers a wellness platform designed to support staff mental and emotional well-being, incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy tools and evidence-based digital mental health resources. The solution provides real-time data on staff well-being and performance and includes a dashboard that tracks mental health trends, app engagement, and drivers of burnout. This combination enables employers to understand needs, target interventions, and sustain a healthier, more productive workforce, ultimately supporting better patient care.

Avanlee Care

Venture Round in 2022
Avanlee Care is a healthcare technology company that provides a platform to bridge health plans and caregiving families, enabling coordination of care for aging relatives. The platform includes medication tracking, health information management, and access to caregiver resources, helping family caregivers manage responsibilities and promote better health outcomes. By focusing on Medicare Advantage programs, Avanlee Care aims to improve caregiver well-being and deliver measurable value for plans through reduced costs and improved Star Ratings.

9amHealth

Series A in 2022
9amHealth is a healthcare service provider that aims to deliver comprehensive medical support for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The company offers personalized care plans, prescription medication, at-home lab tests, and unlimited virtual visits, ensuring that patients have direct access to affordable and compassionate care. By redesigning all care elements into a single digital service, 9amHealth caters to the modern realities of patients' lives, making healthcare always available and convenient, even for those without insurance. Its focus on chronic conditions highlights its commitment to improving the health and well-being of customers in the United States.

doc-doc

Seed Round in 2021
doc-doc is a HealthTech company offering digital health services. It provides instant access to top medical specialists, psychologists, nutritionists, coaches, e-pharmacy, and exams for patients via its Digital-Insurance platform. Additionally, it offers wellness benefits for companies aiming to improve employee health and productivity.

Pelago

Series B in 2021
Pelago specializes in virtual substance use management, empowering members to overcome addiction, primarily tobacco, alcohol, or opioids. It offers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs, delivered via an accessible platform that integrates with health plans and wellness platforms.

Gabbi

Seed Round in 2021
Gabbi is a healthcare technology company that uses AI and clinical research to help women understand and proactively manage their health risks, with a focus on breast cancer risk, prevention, and early detection. The platform offers a lifetime risk assessment, personalized action plans, and virtual care options such as video appointments and chat, along with a community network that supports ongoing engagement and informed decision making.

Avanlee Care

Seed Round in 2021
Avanlee Care is a healthcare technology company that provides a platform to bridge health plans and caregiving families, enabling coordination of care for aging relatives. The platform includes medication tracking, health information management, and access to caregiver resources, helping family caregivers manage responsibilities and promote better health outcomes. By focusing on Medicare Advantage programs, Avanlee Care aims to improve caregiver well-being and deliver measurable value for plans through reduced costs and improved Star Ratings.

doc-doc

Pre Seed Round in 2020
doc-doc is a HealthTech company offering digital health services. It provides instant access to top medical specialists, psychologists, nutritionists, coaches, e-pharmacy, and exams for patients via its Digital-Insurance platform. Additionally, it offers wellness benefits for companies aiming to improve employee health and productivity.

Pelago

Series A in 2020
Pelago specializes in virtual substance use management, empowering members to overcome addiction, primarily tobacco, alcohol, or opioids. It offers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs, delivered via an accessible platform that integrates with health plans and wellness platforms.

Maverick Medical AI

Seed Round in 2019
Maverick Medical AI Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based company established in 2017 that specializes in the big data healthcare market. The company utilizes advanced natural language processing and machine learning technologies to analyze medical records, enabling the identification of clinical risk factors. By uncovering and maximizing the potential of risk adjustment, Maverick Medical AI aims to enhance financial outcomes in the healthcare sector. Its innovative approach positions it as a significant player in the intersection of technology and healthcare analytics.

Responsum Health

Seed Round in 2019
Responsum Health develops disease-specific mobile apps, based on extensive research and patient collaboration. These apps aim to enhance patients' knowledge, boost self-confidence, address needs and concerns, and organize healthcare information.

Play-It Health

Seed Round in 2019
Play-It Health is a digital health company that builds a mobile platform for patients, providers, and payers to monitor and improve adherence to medical regimens. The application delivers education, tailored reminders for medicines, appointments, and laboratory tests, and tracks biometric data outside of hospital settings. It generates actionable adherence reports for clinicians, supports single and multi‑drug regimens, and offers personalized rewards to encourage compliance. The platform also assists employee wellness programs, pharmacy monitoring of medication usage, and remote patient monitoring for caregivers. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

Circle

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Circle is a developer of insurance sales and member retention products tailored for health insurance carriers and their sales channels. The company's platform enables brokers to efficiently quote and enroll clients in various Medicare Advantage, supplemental, and prescription drug plans across the country. Utilizing advanced customer relationship management features, Circle's tools include commission tracking, contracting, licensing, lead generation, and digital Statements of Understanding, all designed to streamline the insurance sales process. By enhancing benefit management capabilities, Circle aims to reduce the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs for beneficiaries and improve overall sales efficiency for insurance companies. In addition, the company is working on a platform to facilitate telemedicine access for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, further supporting healthcare needs in the community.

Devoted Health

Series B in 2018
Founded in 2017, Devoted Health is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of older Americans by offering integrated Medicare Advantage plans. They provide personalized care through a combination of local providers, virtual and in-home care, dedicated guides, and advanced technology.

iShare Medical

Seed Round in 2018
iShare Medical provides a secure platform for sharing medical records among patients, providers, and payers. It enables secure sending and sharing of health information through an online service designed to support interoperability across care settings. The platform offers a secure, email-like exchange of messages and files among patients who receive care, the providers who deliver care, and the payers who finance care, helping to realize interoperability at scale and streamline communication across the care continuum while preserving privacy and security.

LifeWIRE Group

Seed Round in 2018
LifeWIRE Group develops a secure, cloud-based messaging platform that connects healthcare providers, patients, and other stakeholders. The platform automates patient engagement through scripted, automated dialogues, ensuring HIPAA compliance and HITRUST certification. It facilitates patient outreach, follow-up, feedback, and compliance, driving cost reductions while enhancing clinical outcomes and efficiencies.

QwikScript

Seed Round in 2018
QwikScript is a healthcare technology company focused on transforming the prescription process through its innovative mobile application. It offers a transparent marketplace for prescriptions that integrates with patients' insurance, addressing key challenges faced by both patients and physicians. The platform facilitates efficient communication between doctors' offices and pharmacies, providing mobile charts and patient information digitally. By enabling customers to access clear pricing for their prescriptions, QwikScript enhances the overall experience for patients while streamlining workflows for healthcare providers.

Path Surgery

Seed Round in 2018
Path Surgery is a hospital and healthcare company that offers overseas treatment solutions to Americans. The company is driven by its mission is to bring transparency, safety, and affordability to having treatment overseas. Welcome to the Nordics for your treatment. Here we tell you about us and medical tourism as a whole.

NeighborHealth

Seed Round in 2018
NeighborHealth is a company that provides high-quality dental services and subsequently other healthcare services mainly to Americans and Canadians. The service is managed through a platform that can be accessed from a computer or a smartphone. We have designed a webpage that is able to connect the patient with a list of the best, certified local dentists and personally manage your treatment plan, reserve transportation, accommodation and other touristic attractions during their treatment. Our platform it is easy to navigate; within the application we concentrated the basic tasks in four main steps, presenting a simple and concrete list of options to the patient, saving you time and money. Our differentiation is to offer diverse accommodation options and logistics services in transportation and food, throughout the trip, in addition to a list of the best dentists who provide initial recommendations and an estimated budget to the patient's treatment through the same platform. We are able to create the best patient-treatment-travel link, offering an experience that adapts to the needs and budget of each of our patients.

Patientory

Seed Round in 2016
Patientory is a digital health data platform that enables individuals to store and manage personal medical records and health information, empowering patients to control their data. The platform securely manages records, offers AI-driven health coaching, tracks wellness metrics, connects users to clinical trials and affordable medications, and rewards healthy behaviors. It facilitates connections between patients and healthcare providers to support care coordination. Founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, the company aims to streamline access to health information and enable patients to benefit from their data.

Care Advisors

Seed Round in 2016
CareAdvisors is a minority-owned technology company dedicated to enhancing healthcare equity in the United States. The company automates the manual enrollment process for healthcare and social service benefits, thereby facilitating rapid access for millions of individuals. By streamlining this process, CareAdvisors aids healthcare organizations in reducing uncompensated care costs and addressing delays in treatment and payments. The founding team, with over a decade of experience in building community resource directories, emphasizes a personalized approach to patient care, providing one-on-one assistance through trained health navigators. These navigators work to dismantle barriers to quality healthcare and are integral to the coverage-to-care model established by the Affordable Care Act. CareAdvisors also offers training programs designed to prepare future health professionals, focusing on cultural competencies and real-world applications of health informatics. Their innovative platform connects healthcare providers with patients while enhancing the capacity of care coordinators and social workers, ultimately aiming to improve community health outcomes.

Test Appropriate

Seed Round in 2016
Test Appropriate believes providers are at their best when they have easy and fast access to best practices developed by actual providers, supported by evidence, and fully vetted by the broader community. They efficiently supply best practices and supporting information at the point of care to improve care quality, ease compliance, lessen over AND underutilization, and increase workflow efficiency. They present interactive appropriate use criteria from leading medical societies and providers to ensure compliance and assist in providing the best, most consistent and safest care possible. Consider adding your own protocols to further refine best practices at your organization. In addition to eliminating inappropriate tests, they supply comparison cost data before orders are placed to guide clinicians to the most appropriate and most cost effective tests and procedures. They deliver detailed guidance and other critical information when you need it most to improve team workflow efficiency. Customizable features provide assistance with coding, precise payer pricing, minimize referral leakage and assist with payer pre-authorization and reimbursement. Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) in their native form are often lengthy and complex, and moreover, change periodically based on the latest research and technology. As such they are impossible to memorize… and why should you? Their tool provides fast, interactive access to AUC with the fewest possible clicks to all but eliminate the chance of inappropriate ordering. Their tool also documents AUC consultation to prove compliance, standardize care and reduce liability exposure because the best defense against mal-practice is best practice. Cost comparison data is displayed (if desired) before orders are placed to guide clinicians to the best test or procedure, not just an appropriate one. Consider that the ACC’s criteria covering seven common tests used to identify ischemia produce an average of 3.3 tests that are appropriate for any given set of patient conditions. Moreover, 59% of the time these appropriate tests include a test in both the lowest and highest cost ranges (roughly $200 vs $3,000). Their chart studies prove that astronomical rates of return are possible from providers on cost sharing models making only modest improvements in lower cost ordering. Alternately, they know that many useful but expensive tests are not being ordered, when they may be the best appropriate choice. However, clinicians simply don’t have the tools to easily know when those scenarios arise because they are far too complex to memorize and require detailed knowledge of each patient’s history that is often times not present in the EHR.

Maxwell Health

Series C in 2016
Maxwell Health is a provider of a SaaS-enabled online benefits service that simplifies employee benefits and human resources for small to mid-sized employers. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Cambridge, the company offers a comprehensive platform that includes a marketplace for various insurance products such as medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits. The platform also features tools to streamline HR processes, including benefits administration and payroll, along with a mobile application designed to enhance user experience. Maxwell Health aims to modernize how employees access and utilize insurance, financial, and wellness benefits, ultimately helping American families achieve better health and financial well-being. The company operates as a subsidiary of Sun Life Financial United States and collaborates with benefits advisors and insurance companies to deliver its technology.

AlemHealth

Seed Round in 2015
AlemHealth offers telemedicine and digital health solutions tailored for frontier markets, enabling physicians to collaborate across borders and specialties to deliver accessible, high-quality care. The company develops teleradiology software and hardware to store, share, view, and report medical imaging studies, powered by artificial intelligence algorithms and secure cloud storage that support management of studies from multiple facilities with HIPAA-compliant security. Its platform creates and stores searchable structured report templates, supports assignment routing and digital signing, and is designed for clinics, hospitals, and radiology practices to improve patient care and diagnostic quality.

AlemHealth

Venture Round in 2015
AlemHealth offers telemedicine and digital health solutions tailored for frontier markets, enabling physicians to collaborate across borders and specialties to deliver accessible, high-quality care. The company develops teleradiology software and hardware to store, share, view, and report medical imaging studies, powered by artificial intelligence algorithms and secure cloud storage that support management of studies from multiple facilities with HIPAA-compliant security. Its platform creates and stores searchable structured report templates, supports assignment routing and digital signing, and is designed for clinics, hospitals, and radiology practices to improve patient care and diagnostic quality.

Nutrify

Seed Round in 2014
Nutrify provides tailored recipes based on a user’s unique nutritional needs, clinical data, medications, and health conditions. The app extracts information from EHRs and compiles data from nurse and dietitian rounds to create a patient profile based on the available information. From there, the app creates special meal plans for each user that takes into account medications and allergies and considers the macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals a person needs for optimal health. Nutrify takes a clinical approach to managing diets by basing its plans on accepted medical nutrition standards as outlined by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Wellthie

Seed Round in 2014
Wellthie Inc. is an insurance technology company based in New York, founded in 2013. It specializes in providing tools for brokers and carriers to streamline the insurance distribution process for small businesses and individuals. Wellthie offers a cloud-based e-commerce platform that includes features such as medical and ancillary quotes, a broker management dashboard, scenario modeling, an online storefront, custom client proposals, and market insights. The company has created a national small group benefits marketplace, enabling brokers to enhance their small group sales and insurance carriers to optimize product distribution. By focusing on improving the insurance shopping experience, Wellthie aims to facilitate a more intuitive and efficient process for both brokers and clients.

Punctil

Venture Round in 2014
Punctil is a cloud-based platform that enables users to securely access all their online health accounts through a single sign-on. It also provides personal health scores and real-time appointment updates, aiming to streamline healthcare management and enhance care coordination.

GoGoHealth

Seed Round in 2013
GoGo Health is a web-based application that enables patients, doctors, and caregivers to communicate and interact with each other. The application enables doctors and caregivers to monitor their patients’ health and progress. Patients would be able to report symptoms to their doctors. The doctors will be able to view the medical history of their patients through the application. GoGo Health was launched in 2012 by Natasha Alexeeva and Kwaku Ampromfi and is based in California.

Cake Health

Seed Round in 2012
Cake Health, Inc. is an online healthcare payment management service based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2010. The company offers a platform that helps users track and manage their healthcare expenses, providing a centralized location for monitoring healthcare plans, claims, and medical bills. Cake Health enables users to stay informed about their plan status, categorize claims, and track out-of-pocket expenses, while also alerting them to potential overcharges. As of April 2016, Cake Health operates as a subsidiary of Inbox Health Corp.

CarePlanners

Seed Round in 2012
Friends for years, Alan Blaustein and Dr. Nancy Snyderman grew even closer after Alan was diagnosed with serious illness and Nancy became responsible for her parent’s care in 2005. They shared story after story of dealing with the healthcare system’s many obstacles: managing and coordinating physicians, insurance companies, medical billing agencies, and various hospitals. The Careplanners team represents the full-spectrum of healthcare expertise: registered nurses, social workers, Medicare experts, insurance and billing specialists, and other healthcare advocates from all over the country. These deeply caring and committed people share a passion to eliminate the obstacles and frustrations of the healthcare system and help you focus on what’s most important – making the best healthcare decisions for yourself and your loved ones.
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