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Caregiving Moonshot with Richard Lui

From Personal Journey to Global Mission: Richard Lui on Love, Labor, and Why He Is Leading StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot

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Caregiving touches every family, yet caregivers often remain unseen. In this conversation from HLTH in Las Vegas, StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes sits down with Richard Lui, award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and Chief Impact Officer for StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot. Richard shares the personal story that sparked his mission to transform the global care economy and explains why caregiving is one of the largest and most meaningful opportunities in health. Together, they explore how innovators, investors, and leaders can build solutions that support the people holding our health system together.

In this episode
• Why caregiving must become a core pillar of every product and service in health
• What Richard learned caring for his father with Alzheimer’s
• How storytelling and culture change are fueling new momentum
• Where founders can find opportunity in the rapidly growing care economy
• Why community and staying power are essential for caregiving innovators

Join the Caregiving Moonshot
If you are building solutions that support caregivers or strengthen the care economy, learn how to join our global community of Health Transformers.

Meet in Person
Join us at Apollo House at JPM Healthcare Week in January.

Are you ready to tell YOUR story? Members of our Health Moonshot Communities are leading startups with breakthrough technology-driven solutions for the world’s biggest health challenges. Exposure in StartUp Health Media to our global audience of investors and partners – including our podcast, newsletters, magazine, and YouTube channel – is a benefit of our Health Moonshot PRO Membership. To schedule a call and see if you qualify to join and increase brand awareness through our multi-media storytelling efforts, submit our three-minute application. If you’re mission-driven, collaborative, and ready to contribute as much as you gain, you might be the perfect fit.
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Born from Experience: How The Care Hack Is Fixing the Caregiver Crisis

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In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, Unity Stoakes sits down with Mitul Desai, co-founder of The Care Hack, a member of StartUp Health’s Caregiving Moonshot Community. Desai opens up about the decades-long journey that began when his younger brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and his family became full-time caregivers – with no support, no training, and no roadmap.

Drawing from this lived experience, Mitul partnered with psychiatrist Dr. Eli Shalenberg to launch The Care Hack, a platform purpose-built for cognitive caregivers – those supporting loved ones with long-term brain and mental health conditions. Together, they’re on a mission to bring caregivers into the center of the healthcare system, not just as recipients of support, but as key contributors to better outcomes and lower costs.

You’ll hear why Mitul left a successful career in law, policy, and tech to pursue this mission, how The Care Hack is partnering with providers and payers to scale what already works, and what it means to create infrastructure for the “second healthcare system” that families already power every day.

Listen to learn why The Care Hack isn’t just another health app – it’s a movement grounded in empathy, evidence, and a belief that caregivers can change everything when given the right tools.

Want to meet founders like Mitul in person? Join us at Apollo House at JPM Healthcare Week in January.

Are you ready to tell YOUR story? Members of our Health Moonshot Communities are leading startups with breakthrough technology-driven solutions for the world’s biggest health challenges. Exposure in StartUp Health Media to our global audience of investors and partners – including our podcast, newsletters, magazine, and YouTube channel – is a benefit of our Health Moonshot PRO Membership. To schedule a call and see if you qualify to join and increase brand awareness through our multi-media storytelling efforts, submit our three-minute application. If you’re mission-driven, collaborative, and ready to contribute as much as you gain, you might be the perfect fit.
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EmTech Care Labs

How EmTech Care Labs’ Care-Wallet Is Changing Dementia Care at Home

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StartUp Health community member Aarabi Balasubramanian, CEO & Founder of EmTech Care Labs, joins StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes to share the deeply personal story that inspired Care-Wallet™, her virtual care management platform for families navigating Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

In this conversation, Aarabi discusses:

  • How her mother’s long diagnostic journey revealed the realities of caregiving across countries and health systems
  • Why families face so much fragmentation when managing dementia care at home
  • How Care-Wallet blends AI support with human care managers to guide families step by step
  • What she is learning as a solo founder building in a complex healthcare ecosystem
  • How the StartUp Health community gives her support, shared experience, and a network of fellow founders pushing forward similar missions

This is a must listen for anyone building in aging, caregiving, or brain health – or for anyone supporting a loved one through a complex care journey.

 

Are you ready to tell YOUR story? Members of our Health Moonshot Communities are leading startups with breakthrough technology-driven solutions for the world’s biggest health challenges. Exposure in StartUp Health Media to our global audience of investors and partners – including our podcast, newsletters, magazine, and YouTube channel – is a benefit of our Health Moonshot PRO Membership. To schedule a call and see if you qualify to join and increase brand awareness through our multi-media storytelling efforts, submit our three-minute application. If you’re mission-driven, collaborative, and ready to contribute as much as you gain, you might be the perfect fit.
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What Happens After the Doctor Visit? How Starlight Is Reinventing Follow-Up Care

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When a patient is diagnosed with a chronic condition, the real journey begins at home – not in the doctor’s office. In this episode, StartUp Health community member Nandan Rao, CEO & Founder of Starlight, shares how his company is filling one of the biggest gaps in modern healthcare: what happens after the visit.

Learn:
• Why follow-up care is broken—and how Starlight is fixing it
• How behavioral science and human coaches can outperform even the best tech
• What it takes to integrate with providers, payers, and patients alike
• Why Starlight’s care model is scaling across 12+ states
• The surprising role AI plays in making care more human

This is chronic care, reengineered for real life.

P.S. If you’re tracking CMS’s new ACCESS model, don’t miss this. Starlight’s care delivery model is already up and running – and hitting the exact goals ACCESS was designed to promote.

Are you ready to tell YOUR story? Members of our Health Moonshot Communities are leading startups with breakthrough technology-driven solutions for the world’s biggest health challenges. Exposure in StartUp Health Media to our global audience of investors and partners – including our podcast, newsletters, magazine, and YouTube channel – is a benefit of our Health Moonshot PRO Membership. To schedule a call and see if you qualify to join and increase brand awareness through our multi-media storytelling efforts, submit our three-minute application. If you’re mission-driven, collaborative, and ready to contribute as much as you gain, you might be the perfect fit.
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Inside Cognimark: How Andrew Lu Is Reimagining Brain Health with AI

Meet Cognimark: How Andrew Lu Is Reimagining Brain Health with an AI-Powered Neurology Copilot

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In this episode of the StartUp Health NOW podcast, Unity Stoakes sits down with StartUp Health community member Andrew Lu, CEO & Co-founder of Cognimark, to explore how AI is reshaping dementia care from the ground up.

  • How a personal family journey inspired Lu to build Cognimark

  • The power of integrating AI directly into physician workflows

  • What early pilots reveal about detecting dementia sooner

  • Why collaboration through the StartUp Health Alzheimer’s Moonshot matters

Listen in to hear how Cognimark is transforming the patient and physician experience—making proactive brain health part of every primary care visit.

Are you ready to tell YOUR story? Members of our Health Moonshot Communities are leading startups with breakthrough technology-driven solutions for the world’s biggest health challenges. Exposure in StartUp Health Media to our global audience of investors and partners – including our podcast, newsletters, magazine, and YouTube channel – is a benefit of our Health Moonshot PRO Membership. To schedule a call and see if you qualify to join and increase brand awareness through our multi-media storytelling efforts, submit our three-minute application. If you’re mission-driven, collaborative, and ready to contribute as much as you gain, you might be the perfect fit.
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