StartUp Health, a global startup platform accelerating health and wellness innovation, today announced the addition of 16 digital health companies to its exclusive long-term coaching program and community.
The selected class of 16 “healthcare transformers” represents an experienced group of entrepreneurs focused on building sustainable digital health companies across a broad spectrum of innovation from home healthcare, genomics, aging, sensors, patient and physician engagement, mobile health and wellness, nutrition analysis, concierge medicine, care coordination and price transparency. To date, 63 companies have joined StartUp Health, three of which have been acquired, and the program’s portfolio has raised a total of $130 million.
A Three-Year Structured Program
Each quarter, StartUp Health invites fewer than 20 companies to join its comprehensive three-year entrepreneurship program. StartUp Health believes a three year structured program is the best approach to transforming healthcare to support and promote entrepreneurs with ongoing inspiration, education, and access to customers, capital, and other critical resources so that innovation and growth can occur more quickly.
One of the key differentiators is StartUp Health’s long-term focus on connecting health and wellness startups with customers, pilot programs, strategic capital partners, and the critical resources designed to help Healthcare Transformers achieve 10x equity value for their businesses.
Today, StartUp Health also announced that Nadeem Kassam, a member of StartUp Health’s inaugural class and the founder of BASIS Science, which was recently acquired by Intel, will join StartUp Health as its first “Healthcare Transformer in Residence.” His focus will be helping the current community of Startup Health companies and scouting the ecosystem for new startups.
This week, StartUp Health will host its quarterly Healthcare Transformer Summit in New York City and showcase its companies to some of the tech industry’s biggest brands, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo!, as well as nearly 300 health-focused investors, healthcare brands and strategic partners.
The new class of StartUp Health Companies and Healthcare Transformers include:
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Althea Health – Patient-powered research for rare and neglected diseases
Subsector: Rare diseases
Founders: Greg Cohen, Manu Kodiyan, Sanjay Raghu
Location: San Francisco, CA
www.altheahealth.com
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CarePredict – Wearable sensor for senior care
Subsector: Sensors
Founders: Satish Movva, Krishnatej Vedala, PhD
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Health123 – Salesforce for wellness management
Subsector: Wellness platform
Founders: Rachel Lanham, Rebecca Norlander
Location: Seattle, WA
www.health123.com
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Hindsait – Cognitive analytics for patient risk assessment
Subsector: Big data analytics
Founders: Pinaki Dasgupta, Adrish Sannyasi
Location: Englewood, NJ
www.hindsait.com
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Inbox Health – Patient billing, payments and analytics
Subsector: Navigating the healthcare system
Founders: Blake Walker, Spencer Ewald, Simon Kaluza
Location: Bridgeport, CT
www.inboxhealth.com
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LifeDojo – The cure for the common corporate wellness program
Subsector: Employee wellness
Founders: Chris Cutter, Varun Vummidi, Patricia Bedard
Location: New York, NY
www.lifedojo.com
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Mobile Health One – Communication platform for care providers and patients
Subsector: Care management
Founders: David Crane, John Abrahams, MD
Location: New York, NY
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PHmHealth – Ensuring compliance in provider-patient interactions by making home healthcare as trackable as a UPS package
Subsector: Care management
Founders: Dirk Rassloff, Michael Mittelman
Location: Philadelphia, PA
www.phm-health.com
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Pocket Anatomy – Visual patient education software
Subsector: Ed tech
Founders: Mark Campbell, Thomas King
Location: Galway, Ireland
www.pocketanatomy.com
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Punctil – Punctuality solutions for healthcare
Subsector: Care management
Founders: Ben Picard, Denis Abrams, PhD
Location: New York, NY
www.punctil.com
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RxREVU – Saving money for patients & payors through prescription optimization
Subsector: Navigating the healthcare system
Founders: Carm Huntress, Kevin O’Brien, MD, Dan Caron, Peregrin Marshall
Location: Denver, CO
www.rxrevu.com
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Shift Health – Bringing the patient voice into clinical care
Subsector: Low literacy healthcare communication
Founders: Sandy Whitehouse, MD, Daniel Penn
Location: Toronto, Canada
www.shifthealth.ca
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SmartRx – Healthcare CRM platform
Subsector: Patient Engagement, Patient Relationship Management
Founders: Anil Kumar, Vishesh Rohatgi, MD, Vijayakumar Kannan
Location: Bangalore, India
www.smartrx.in
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Tute Genomics – Cloud-based genome analysis for precision medicine
Subsector: Big data & analytics
Founders: Reid Robison, MD, MBA, Kai Wang, PhD
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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Vheda Health – Personalized mobile disease management & analytics
Subsector: Care management
Founders: Shameet Luhar, Philip Rub
Location: Columbia, MD
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Wellthie – Product marketing platform for health plans
Subsector: Navigating the healthcare system
Founders: Sally Poblete
Location: New York, NY
www.wellthie.com
