StartUp Health, a global startup platform accelerating innovation in health and wellness, today announced the addition of thirteen new companies to its portfolio, bringing the total to 84 companies. The new companies represent a diverse range of sub-sectors, from big data and medication adherence to patient engagement and nutrition and includes four international companies, four based in the Midwest, and eight female founders. The New York based accelerator has the largest portfolio of digital health companies in healthcare and has assembled the largest global peer network of healthcare innovators.
“This new group of Healthcare Transformers represents the diversity of talent joining forces to reimagine healthcare,” said Steven Krein, co-founder and CEO of StartUp Health. “We’re thrilled that entrepreneurs from all over the world and from all different sectors, are bringing their expertise to healthcare. And we couldn’t be more excited about the community thats coming together to help startups scale and working together to transform the industry.”
The thirteen new StartUp Health companies include:
AprilAge – Visualization software for education. It uses your images to project what you will look like after years of sun exposure, heavy smoking and obesity to motivate healthy lifestyle.
Subsector: Patient Engagement
Founders: Alexandra Brown, Ron Estey
Location: Toronto, Canada
Curatio – Brings together patients with similar conditions together on a mobile network.
Subsector: Patient Engagement
Founders: Lynda Brown-Ganzert, Alireza Davoodi, Nima Kaviani
Location: Vancouver, Canada
DocEngage – CRM for healthcare with actionable patient data
Subsector: Practice Management
Founders: Ahimanikya Satapathy, Asha Satapathy, Shankar Banerjee
Location: Bangalore, India
Fit4D – The device uses patient preferences to set up each participant with their own diabetes coach such as group interaction to reading to improve adherence.
Subsector: Medication Adherence
Founder: David Weingard
Location: New York, NY
Jaystreet Technologies – Manages patient appointments for healthcare providers by automating how cancelled appointments are filled , allowing customer service representatives to satisfy patients right in-front of or calling into them.
Subsector: Practice Management
Founder: Tom Dewane
Location: Manitowoc, WI
Kuveda– The company uses the patient’s molecular profile such as bio-markers, proteins, genes, pathways, specific molecules, to develop
personalized therapeutic cancer treatment options.
Subsector: Big Data
Founders: Chuck Gershman, Nirmal Singh, Jasvir Zonobi
Location: San Jose, CA
LifeBio – The company helps users tell their life story to reduce their loneliness and improve their outlook
Subsector: Patient Engagement
Founders: Beth Sanders
Location: Marysville, OH
Meals to Heal – Customized nutritional solutions for people with chronic conditions
Subsector: Nutrition
Founder: Susan Bratton
Location: New York, NY
MedCloud WebClinic – The digital platform lets doctors and dentists share images with patients
Subsector: Provider Solutions
Founder: Dimas Francisco Silva Jr.
Location: Ponta Grossa, Brazil
Medtep – Tracking of medical and lifestyle-related data
Subsector: Patient Engagement
Founders: Pablo Pantaleoni, Jacob Sunol
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Nutrify – A mobile app that’s a diet planning tool for hospitals.
Subsector: Nutrition
Founders: Jackie Arnett, RD, Dr. Yaser Elnahar, James Schuler
Location: New York, NY
Personal Medicine Plus – The company helps patients monitor and enter their water and vegetable intake, create personalized health improvement plans. It also uses customized visual health reminders to help reduce poor health behaviors.
Subsector: Patient Engagement
Founders: Brandi Harless, Dr. Natalie Hodge, Jay Campbell
Location: Paducah, KY
Tome – Connecting office furniture to corporate wellness using gamification to increase employee engagement
Subsector: Corporate Wellness
Founders: Massimo Baldini, Jake Sigal
Location: Detroit, MI