Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in mHealth

AlliConnect

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Thrivelution is disrupting the current market space by streamlining the process of connecting patients with providers, focusing on the quality of matches, and demonstrating a return on investment for small business owners.

Omaiven Health

Funding Round in 2021
Omaiven Health, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in healthcare technology by offering an AI-driven application called askMia. This innovative chatbot functions as a virtual front desk, facilitating communication between patients and doctor's offices. The application simplifies access to healthcare information by utilizing artificial intelligence to match users with appropriate healthcare providers based on their symptoms and conditions. It also enables patients to easily schedule appointments and receive guidance for their medical visits, thereby enhancing the overall patient experience in navigating healthcare services.

Healthtracka

Seed Round in 2021
Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days

Vincere Health

Seed Round in 2021
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

Clinify Health

Seed Round in 2021
Clinify Health works with independent physician practices who care for populations in underserved communities to achieve financial stability by optimizing decision-making at the point-of-care which results in these practices being able to enter in to, and succeed in, alternative payment arrangements.

Rezilient Health

Seed Round in 2021
Rezilient Health bridges the convenience of telehealth with the broad scope of in-person care by offering neighborhood hubs where families can get virtual access to their doctor as well as physical exams, labs, and imaging. Each hub is powered by our proprietary robotic telehealth technology that allows doctors to remotely control the positioning of medical devices in real time.

Beam Health

Seed Round in 2021
Beam Health Group, LLC is a telemedicine platform that facilitates connections between healthcare providers and patients through various communication methods, including text, voicemail, and video chat. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, the company focuses on assisting small health practices by offering a pay-as-you-go digital care solution. Beam's platform enhances patient marketing, engagement, and education, providing tools such as branded landing pages and social media campaigns. Additionally, it enables medical practices to conduct video appointments with existing patients and attract new ones within their marketplace.

oDoc

Seed Round in 2021
oDoc Private Limited is a telemedicine company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 2016. It has developed a mobile application that connects users with doctors for video consultations and healthcare services. The app allows users to send pre-consultation notes, conduct video calls, and receive prescriptions directly on their smartphones. Primarily serving businesses, oDoc offers a robust health benefit solution for employers and value-added services for banking, financial services, and insurance providers. As the largest B2B telemedicine company in Sri Lanka, oDoc is expanding its operations into India and boasts a utilization rate significantly higher than that of other competitors. The platform facilitates a comprehensive healthcare journey, enabling users to request in-person consultations, compare doctor profiles, consult anonymously, and access health information, all while maintaining the convenience and safety of remote healthcare delivery.

Acclinate

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
We are a trusted healthcare solutions provider integrating culture and technology to source diverse participants for genomic research and clinical trials

Cogniant

Venture Round in 2021
Cogniant is an AI assisted digital health platform for monitoring chronic and mental health conditions.

Beam Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Beam Health Group, LLC is a telemedicine platform that facilitates connections between healthcare providers and patients through various communication methods, including text, voicemail, and video chat. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, the company focuses on assisting small health practices by offering a pay-as-you-go digital care solution. Beam's platform enhances patient marketing, engagement, and education, providing tools such as branded landing pages and social media campaigns. Additionally, it enables medical practices to conduct video appointments with existing patients and attract new ones within their marketplace.

Rezilient Health

Funding Round in 2020
Rezilient Health bridges the convenience of telehealth with the broad scope of in-person care by offering neighborhood hubs where families can get virtual access to their doctor as well as physical exams, labs, and imaging. Each hub is powered by our proprietary robotic telehealth technology that allows doctors to remotely control the positioning of medical devices in real time.

Tellescope

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tellescope streamlines patient communications, making it easy for businesses to provide more trustworthy and engaging digital healthcare.

Vincere Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

Tellescope

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tellescope streamlines patient communications, making it easy for businesses to provide more trustworthy and engaging digital healthcare.

River Health

Seed Round in 2020
River Health, established in 2019 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, offers a comprehensive range of health and wellness services through a membership model. Members gain 24/7 access to a variety of services, including doctor visits, urgent care, lab tests, nutrition counseling, and women's health services such as birth control. The company emphasizes quality care by ensuring that all its healthcare providers maintain good standing and deliver optimal service. River Health collaborates with healthcare providers, payers, and digital health companies to enhance its offerings and improve member experiences.

Fitnescity

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Fitnescity's mission is to empower people to learn more about their wellness so they can make more informed decisions.

MD Ally

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MD Ally, Inc. is a telemedicine platform founded in 2020 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offers a triage solution designed to enhance emergency medical services (EMS) by addressing non-emergency care needs. The platform enables EMS providers to triage callers with non-life-threatening issues to appropriate virtual medical and behavioral healthcare professionals, as well as facilitating in-network follow-up care, alternate transportation, and access to social services. By integrating telemedicine into the emergency medical dispatch process, MD Ally aims to improve patient-centered care options, ultimately enhancing clinical outcomes and reducing response and offload times for first responders. The service is provided at no cost to public safety entities, promoting collaboration between EMS and emergency room practitioners to optimize the use of emergency resources.

MedEngine

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MedEngine is helping people with Parkinson's disease lead a better life through wearable medical technology. They want to open the door to a new era of patient-centric care for those challenged by Parkinson’s Disease. Their goal is to re-balance the Parkinson's care ecosystem where patients have the tools to get more from their consultations. They want to empower patients with information to feel more confident in participating in their choice of care.

Medeo

Seed Round in 2019
Medeo supports the digitalization of healthcare professionals by developing applications to improve their practice, productivity, and their work and life balance. The company is headquartered in Villeurbanne, France.

WalkWise

Seed Round in 2019
WalkWise is dedicated to developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It offers a smart walker attachment that helps seniors maintain their independence by monitoring wellness, health, and safety.

Phraze

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Phraze is dedicated to transforming the healthcare delivery at the point-of-care by removing the screen between patients and clinicians. It lets healthcare providers focus on patient care by automating their clinical documentation requirements with its AI-powered digital medical scribe

River Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
River Health, established in 2019 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, offers a comprehensive range of health and wellness services through a membership model. Members gain 24/7 access to a variety of services, including doctor visits, urgent care, lab tests, nutrition counseling, and women's health services such as birth control. The company emphasizes quality care by ensuring that all its healthcare providers maintain good standing and deliver optimal service. River Health collaborates with healthcare providers, payers, and digital health companies to enhance its offerings and improve member experiences.

Omaiven Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Omaiven Health, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in healthcare technology by offering an AI-driven application called askMia. This innovative chatbot functions as a virtual front desk, facilitating communication between patients and doctor's offices. The application simplifies access to healthcare information by utilizing artificial intelligence to match users with appropriate healthcare providers based on their symptoms and conditions. It also enables patients to easily schedule appointments and receive guidance for their medical visits, thereby enhancing the overall patient experience in navigating healthcare services.

Wella Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Wellahealth is a startup that has developed a digital triage bot that provides guidance based on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control guidelines and logs responses for follow up by public health as needed.

UptimeHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2019
UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that is empowering providers to make patient's lives better. We are on a mission to be the trusted compliance and equipment management tool for healthcare facilities everywhere. We focus on providing administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, access to actionable data to increase operational efficiencies, and tap into the largest network of qualified biomed technicians. Our products let users effortlessly assign and monitor their team's tasks, keep an accurate inventory of their equipment, and use analytics to decrease operational costs. We are a team of experts and professionals that understand that compliance is a pertinent part of healthcare. We develop solutions to save your facility money by finding the right partners, techniques, and strategies to keep your healthcare facilities running efficiently. At UptimeHealth, we take care of the equipment so you can take care of the patients.

UptimeHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2019
UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that is empowering providers to make patient's lives better. We are on a mission to be the trusted compliance and equipment management tool for healthcare facilities everywhere. We focus on providing administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, access to actionable data to increase operational efficiencies, and tap into the largest network of qualified biomed technicians. Our products let users effortlessly assign and monitor their team's tasks, keep an accurate inventory of their equipment, and use analytics to decrease operational costs. We are a team of experts and professionals that understand that compliance is a pertinent part of healthcare. We develop solutions to save your facility money by finding the right partners, techniques, and strategies to keep your healthcare facilities running efficiently. At UptimeHealth, we take care of the equipment so you can take care of the patients.

oDoc

Seed Round in 2019
oDoc Private Limited is a telemedicine company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 2016. It has developed a mobile application that connects users with doctors for video consultations and healthcare services. The app allows users to send pre-consultation notes, conduct video calls, and receive prescriptions directly on their smartphones. Primarily serving businesses, oDoc offers a robust health benefit solution for employers and value-added services for banking, financial services, and insurance providers. As the largest B2B telemedicine company in Sri Lanka, oDoc is expanding its operations into India and boasts a utilization rate significantly higher than that of other competitors. The platform facilitates a comprehensive healthcare journey, enabling users to request in-person consultations, compare doctor profiles, consult anonymously, and access health information, all while maintaining the convenience and safety of remote healthcare delivery.

Albert Health

Pre Seed Round in 2018
50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-based health assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.

KelaHealth

Pre Seed Round in 2018
KēlaHealth is a software platform that combines predictive algorithms with high-impact interventions to reduce surgical complications. They use millions of data points to inform each patient's comprehensive risk profile, then recommend the best interventions to mitigate those risks. By following every surgical journey end-to-end, from prediction and action to outcomes, they continuously improve and inform the surgical quality ecosystem.

Digital Medical Tech

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Digital Medical Tech created a platform that allows health systems to proactively track medical devices and equipment. Using Bluetooth technology, Digital Medical Tech’s real-time location system provides monitoring and management of a wide variety of medical assets, while requiring less infrastructure and shorter installation time than typical tracking solutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Better Living Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Better Living Technologies is a company established in 2018 and based in the United States, dedicated to improving the management of Type-1 Diabetes. Its software platform provides parents with enhanced tools to monitor their children's health by offering streamlined access to patient data and trends. This approach aims to alleviate the challenges associated with diabetes management, making it less stressful and more efficient. By focusing on better interfaces and supportive communities, Better Living Technologies seeks to empower patients and their families, thereby addressing significant issues within the healthcare system. The company's mission is to enhance the lives of those affected by diabetes through improved access to vital health and wellness information.

Player’s Health

Seed Round in 2018
Player’s Health is an insurance agency that protects athletes and sports organizations with a unique risk management platform. To do this, they use an interactive mobile and web-based platform designed to allow coaches to quickly and easily document any injury that occurs during practice or games. This promotes real-time communication between coaches and parents to best care for the health and wellbeing of youth athletes. Their HIPAA compliant interface simplifies the flow of youth athlete health information between coach, parent, and healthcare provider. Player’s Health fosters a personalized network of care for each youth athlete.

Curischain

Seed Round in 2018
Securing health data through blockchain.

Brook Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Brook is a personal health companion that brings together clinicians, designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. It helps to find the healthy zone in the flow of everyday life by combining automated tracking and data analysis with access to health experts every day of the year. It generates member health reports that make for better doctor’s visits, make it easy to sync their system with their devices, and most importantly, help people stay healthy – so they can be their best selves at work, at home, and wherever life takes them.

Artera

Seed Round in 2017
Artera operates a communication platform tailored for the healthcare industry, facilitating connections between patients and healthcare organizations through various channels, including text, email, phone, and live chat. The platform enables two-way text conversations using existing office phone numbers, enhancing the patient experience and streamlining communications for healthcare practices. Designed for ease of use, Artera's solutions integrate information technology, operations, and revenue cycle management to improve overall patient engagement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, Artera aims to simplify the process of accessing healthcare, making it as straightforward as meeting a friend. The platform is compatible with multiple devices, including iOS, Windows, Mac, and Android, ensuring accessibility for both patients and healthcare providers.

Frame Health

Convertible Note in 2017
Frame Health Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in developing cloud-based software aimed at improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. The company operates a big data platform that focuses on creating patient psychological profiles and facilitating interactions between patients and healthcare providers, particularly in the management of chronic diseases. Frame Health serves a diverse clientele, including health maintenance organizations, healthcare providers, self-insured employers, insurance companies, pharmacy chains, mass merchandisers, and pharmaceutical companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Frame Health is dedicated to transforming the healthcare landscape through innovative technological solutions.

Artera

Seed Round in 2017
Artera operates a communication platform tailored for the healthcare industry, facilitating connections between patients and healthcare organizations through various channels, including text, email, phone, and live chat. The platform enables two-way text conversations using existing office phone numbers, enhancing the patient experience and streamlining communications for healthcare practices. Designed for ease of use, Artera's solutions integrate information technology, operations, and revenue cycle management to improve overall patient engagement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, Artera aims to simplify the process of accessing healthcare, making it as straightforward as meeting a friend. The platform is compatible with multiple devices, including iOS, Windows, Mac, and Android, ensuring accessibility for both patients and healthcare providers.

MindMate

Convertible Note in 2016
MindMate Inc. designs and develops a mobile application for patients suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. It offers insight on mental stimulation; puzzles, games, and other mentally invigorating tasks; recipes and nutrition advice; exercises; and reminiscence therapy to store memories. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

MindMate

Pre Seed Round in 2016
MindMate Inc. designs and develops a mobile application for patients suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. It offers insight on mental stimulation; puzzles, games, and other mentally invigorating tasks; recipes and nutrition advice; exercises; and reminiscence therapy to store memories. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Artera

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Artera operates a communication platform tailored for the healthcare industry, facilitating connections between patients and healthcare organizations through various channels, including text, email, phone, and live chat. The platform enables two-way text conversations using existing office phone numbers, enhancing the patient experience and streamlining communications for healthcare practices. Designed for ease of use, Artera's solutions integrate information technology, operations, and revenue cycle management to improve overall patient engagement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, Artera aims to simplify the process of accessing healthcare, making it as straightforward as meeting a friend. The platform is compatible with multiple devices, including iOS, Windows, Mac, and Android, ensuring accessibility for both patients and healthcare providers.

Healthie

Seed Round in 2016
Healthie Inc. operates an online practice management and telehealth platform specifically designed for dietitians and their patients. The Healthie platform automates office management, patient records, and virtual care, streamlining scheduling, billing, and administrative tasks for nutrition professionals. Additionally, it offers a mobile application that allows patients to track their health activities, including food intake, workouts, and various health metrics, facilitating progress monitoring between appointments. Founded in 2016 and based in Lewes, Delaware, Healthie is HIPAA-compliant and aims to empower nutrition providers with tools that enhance patient care. The platform recognizes the unique workflow associated with nutritional care, distinct from traditional medical practices, and is tailored to meet these specific needs while promoting accessible nutritional support for a broader audience.

Nudge, LLC

Seed Round in 2015
Nudge, LLC is a digital health coaching software provider that focuses on aggregating healthcare data for health professionals, coaches, and providers. The company offers the Nudge Coach platform, which simplifies the integration of data from various fitness applications and wearables, enabling users to share insights with their clients effectively. Founded in 2011 and based in Richmond, Virginia, Nudge, LLC allows users to track their health metrics, including hydration, nutrition, exercise, and sleep, ultimately calculating an overall health score. The platform also facilitates social comparisons among users, enhancing motivation and accountability. Nudge, LLC was previously known as Beene & Gambill, LLC before rebranding in January 2012. The company was acquired by Salveo Diagnostics, Inc. in August 2019.

HealthID

Seed Round in 2015
HealthID is a mobile health manager that provides users a simple way to update, manage and communicate all aspects of their personal health directly from their HealthID account, HealthID Band or Card. Their product focuses on three key areas: chronic disease management, medication compliance, and efficient communication of personal medical information to emergency personnel or healthcare providers. HealthID directly meets the needs of both the consumer and the healthcare provider by leveraging the latest technology and value-adding features that can reduce costs, increase outcomes/revenue and potentially save lives.

Melon Health

Seed Round in 2015
Melon Health Inc. develops a mobile health platform for chronic disease management and prevention. The company’s platform allows patients help themselves through peer support, access to clinicians, and tracking and behavior change tools. It offers its services for patients, health providers, pharma sector, and payers in Oceania, North America, and Europe. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Medicast

Seed Round in 2014
Medicast is a technology platform focused on enhancing healthcare delivery by facilitating house calls for hospitals and health systems. The platform aims to empower healthcare organizations to provide personalized care within the comfort of patients' homes. It stands out as a mobile-first logistics and management solution for on-demand care delivery. Designed with input from both patients and physicians, Medicast's technology is user-friendly and has demonstrated improvements in provider efficiency and utilization, as well as satisfaction for both patients and healthcare providers. Through its innovative approach, Medicast seeks to redefine how care is administered outside traditional clinical settings.

Hermes IQ

Seed Round in 2014
HermesIQ is a TechStars '14, healthcare IT company that is building software to improve clinical information management and retrieve metrics and insights from clinical data in order to maximize efficiency, decrease costs, and improve quality of patient care.

Qualia Health

Seed Round in 2014
Qualia Health, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that operates an online platform designed for at-home monitoring of heart failure patients. Founded in 2013, Qualia Health has developed a comprehensive software platform capable of assessing an individual's physical, mental, and social health. This platform allows users to evaluate their health status in comparison to the general population, facilitating a better understanding of their overall well-being. By providing a user-friendly interface, Qualia Health aims to enhance patient engagement and improve health outcomes for individuals managing chronic conditions.

Telespine

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Developer of a Web-based tele-health program designed for low back pain sufferers. The company's mobile application teaches users simple and effective healthy back activities to enabling back pain sufferers to recover from lower back pain, correct your alignment and mobility issues, and restore pain free movement.

Qualia Health

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Qualia Health, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that operates an online platform designed for at-home monitoring of heart failure patients. Founded in 2013, Qualia Health has developed a comprehensive software platform capable of assessing an individual's physical, mental, and social health. This platform allows users to evaluate their health status in comparison to the general population, facilitating a better understanding of their overall well-being. By providing a user-friendly interface, Qualia Health aims to enhance patient engagement and improve health outcomes for individuals managing chronic conditions.

Medicast

Venture Round in 2013
Medicast is a technology platform focused on enhancing healthcare delivery by facilitating house calls for hospitals and health systems. The platform aims to empower healthcare organizations to provide personalized care within the comfort of patients' homes. It stands out as a mobile-first logistics and management solution for on-demand care delivery. Designed with input from both patients and physicians, Medicast's technology is user-friendly and has demonstrated improvements in provider efficiency and utilization, as well as satisfaction for both patients and healthcare providers. Through its innovative approach, Medicast seeks to redefine how care is administered outside traditional clinical settings.

Nexercise

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Nexercise is a mobile platform that provides competition and real rewards to motivate busy people to lose weight and stay fit.

HighFive Mobile

Seed Round in 2013
HighFive Mobile, Inc. develops mobile application for health and fitness routines based on real life activities. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hermes IQ

Seed Round in 2013
HermesIQ is a TechStars '14, healthcare IT company that is building software to improve clinical information management and retrieve metrics and insights from clinical data in order to maximize efficiency, decrease costs, and improve quality of patient care.

EveryMove

Series A in 2012
EveryMove is a web-based application for individuals and companies to empower, capitalize on, and follow fitness-focused lifestyles. Available on both Android and iOS platforms, the EveryMove smartphone application facilitates cross-platform communication in order for users to take part in fitness challenges, network with other health enthusiasts, use personal fitness data to incentivize employer rewards programs, share their results with one another, etc.

EveryMove

Seed Round in 2011
EveryMove is a web-based application for individuals and companies to empower, capitalize on, and follow fitness-focused lifestyles. Available on both Android and iOS platforms, the EveryMove smartphone application facilitates cross-platform communication in order for users to take part in fitness challenges, network with other health enthusiasts, use personal fitness data to incentivize employer rewards programs, share their results with one another, etc.