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The Caregiving Front Door: How CAREgivers Insight Is Rewiring Home-Clinic Connections

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In this Health Moonshot Update, StartUp Health community member Christopher Jue of CAREgivers Insight joins Unity Stoakes to share how empowering caregivers can prevent crises and save the system money. Christopher draws on his own family experience and fresh pilot data to explain why caregivers should be treated as essential members of the care team.

In this episode, they talk about:

  • What four preventable hospitalizations taught him about the cost of underused caregiver insight

  • How Caregiver Views turns everyday observations into clear, shareable trend lines

  • Why pilots with Cancer Services of Midland achieved an 85% recommendation rate

  • The strategic shift from a B2C mindset to payer and Medicare Advantage partners

  • An AI roadmap that starts with summaries and moves toward real coaching for untrained caregivers

  • How the Caregiving Health Moonshot is becoming a doorway into every Health Moonshot at StartUp Health

This is a must listen for anyone building in value-based care, supporting an aging population, or caring for a loved one at home.

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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From Evidence to Adoption: How datosX Is Redefining Digital Health Validation

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Digital health is moving at AI speed, but evidence generation is still stuck in the past.

In this episode, StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes sits down with StartUp Health community member Robin Roberts, CEO & Founder of datosX Digital Health Labs, to explore how validation can become a catalyst for real-world adoption rather than a bottleneck. Drawing on his experience building the Novartis Biome and spinning datosX out of it, Robin explains why traditional CRO models no longer meet the needs of modern digital health and AI-powered solutions.

Together, they discuss how datosX is helping innovators generate regulatory-grade, buyer-credible evidence while unlocking pilots and commercial traction with leading health systems.

In this conversation, you will learn:

  • Why digital health companies cannot afford to wait 18 months for validation

  • How datosX pairs innovators with tier-1 health systems to run validation studies that double as pilots

  • What makes the datosX model 30–60% faster and up to 8–10× more cost-effective than legacy CROs

  • How real-world data and retrospective studies accelerate proof and decision-making

  • Why evidence, adoption, and trust must be built together

  • How the upcoming EVIDIA platform is turning global digital health trial knowledge into AI-powered intelligence

This episode is a must-listen for founders, health system leaders, investors, and partners working to bring validated, trustworthy health innovation to market faster.

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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Esther Dyson

Term Limits for an Infinite Age: Esther Dyson & Unity Stoakes on Abundance, Power, and Staying Human in an Age of AI

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In this special year-end episode, StartUp Health Co-founder Unity Stoakes has an intimate chat with Esther Dyson –  investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member – about her upcoming book on term limits, the dangers of abundance, and how to protect our humanity in a world of superintelligent tools.

Esther draws on decades in tech, health, and philanthropy to ask uncomfortable questions about power, valuation, and why “too much” rarely serves us. Along the way, she shares stories from Wellville, her unconventional life adventures, and the teachers and caregivers who shaped her more than any Nobel Prize winner.

In this wide ranging conversation, they dig into:

  • Why human finitude and term limits can be a source of comfort, not fear

  • How ultra-processed food, content, and money distort our “fitness functions”

  • What the current AI bubble reveals about power, inequality, and attention

  • Why AI should augment doctors, and why nurses and caregivers are irreplaceable

  • How to think about education, theory of mind, and “theory of business mind”

  • Esther’s practical career advice: always make new mistakes, and never do work you would not do for free

This is a must listen for founders, investors, and curious humans who want to navigate the age of superintelligence with more wisdom, more agency, and a clearer sense of “enough.”

Join us at Apollo House at JPM Healthcare Week in January to continue the conversation.

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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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Edamam

Edamam’s Victor Penev: Building a 24/7 AI Nutritionist for a Healthier World

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StartUp Health community member Victor Penev, CEO & Founder of Edamam, joins Unity Stoakes to talk about how AI is accelerating the Food as Medicine revolution. Penev shares how Edamam’s mission to organize the world’s food knowledge is leading to a new generation of personalized nutrition tools, including a virtual nutritionist designed to help billions eat better and live longer.

Listen for insights on AI innovation, new reimbursement models for nutrition, and why optimism – grounded in data – drives Edamam’s next chapter.


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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Glen Tullman

Glen Tullman: The Playbook for Health Founders in a Time of Change

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Transcarent CEO and 7wire Ventures co-founding Partner Glen Tullman joins StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes for a candid conversation on what it takes to lead, invest, and build during one of healthcare’s most volatile and opportunity-rich moments.

Tullman shares why time is the most strategic asset a founder has, why simplicity always wins, and why commitment — not an exit strategy — drives enduring impact.

This 30-minute highlight captures only part of the full Fireside Chat with StartUp Health community members, who joined live to ask their own questions and engage directly with Tullman.

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Do you want to participate in live conversations with industry luminaries? When you join the StartUp Health Network – a new private community for investors, buyers, and industry leaders to connect year-round with top health entrepreneurs – you are invited to a full calendar of interactive Fireside Chats with the most influential leaders shaping health innovation. Come with questions, learn what is working right now, and connect with industry icons.
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CoachLinq by InHealth

InHealth’s Next Chapter: Transforming Engagement Into Healthcare’s First-Line Therapy with CoachLinq

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Perseverance. Proof. A Decade in the Making.
Scaling Health Coaching with Heart and Intelligence.

In this Health Moonshot Update, StartUp Health community members Aubrey Sawyer and Michelle Alencar, PhD, join Unity Stoakes to share the story behind CoachLinq powered by InHealth, the first certified AI health coach and delivery platform. They reflect on ten years of grit, lessons learned about partnership and perseverance, and why engagement – not access alone – is the missing link in healthcare transformation.

Listen to how they’re scaling evidence-based coaching from human connection to intelligent automation, and why StartUp Health’s long-term model of support helped them reach this inflection point.

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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Mother of Fact

A Mother on a Mission to Fix Maternal Nutrition: How Mother of Fact’s Nutrition Care Saves Mothers & Babies

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One-third of maternal deaths are linked to malnutrition or lack of nutrition care. StartUp Health community member Emily Sylvester, MS, RD, is determined to change that.

As CEO & Founder of Mother of Fact, Emily is building a future where every pregnant person has access to continuous, reimbursable nutrition care – embedded into women’s health workflows and culturally tailored to each family’s needs.

In this conversation with StartUp Health Co-founder Unity Stoakes, Emily shares:
• Why maternal care must shift upstream
• How Mother of Fact delivers a 2–3x ROI for clinics
• New data showing major reductions in complications
• Her founder journey after witnessing a preventable tragedy
• The role of equity in the future of maternal health

Listen to learn how wildly different nutrition care can improve outcomes for moms – and help health systems thrive.

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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Enhance-d: Empowering Everybody Living with Diabetes to Reach Their Exercise Goals

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This week on the StartUp Health NOW podcast, we sit down with Sam Scott, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of Enhance-d, a Switzerland-based company transforming how people with diabetes approach exercise.

Sam shares how his experience working with professional athletes living with Type 1 diabetes inspired a digital coaching platform that integrates CGM and wearable data to personalize workouts and improve glucose control. He also talks about the company’s new clinical pilots with Dexcom, its growing global community of users, and the next generation of AI-powered coaching tools.

Listen in to learn how Enhance-d is helping people with diabetes turn movement into medicine – and why collaboration across sports tech, med tech, and clinical care will shape the future of active diabetes management.

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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How Avanlee Care Partners with Health Plans to Provide Simple Tools & Big Outcomes for Seniors at Home

Avanlee Care Partners with Health Plans to Provide Simple Tools & Big Outcomes for Seniors at Home

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Bridging Home, Family, and Health Plans: Avanlee Christine on Caregiver-First Health Innovation

StartUp Health community member Avanlee Christine, CEO & Co-founder of Avanlee Care, joins Unity Stoakes on StartUp Health NOW to share how a pivot from fundraising to customer development unlocked product traction, investor interest, and partnerships with innovative health plans. From Billings, Montana, Avanlee explains why integrating unpaid family caregivers into care workflows improves outcomes, raises satisfaction, and helps Medicare Advantage plans do more with less.

In this episode:

  • How shifting focus from pitching to building sparked inbound VC interest, including the first venture investor
  • Why 60% of Medicare Advantage members rely on informal caregivers, and how formalizing that communication closes gaps
  • Practical ways caregiver engagement boosts stars, adherence, annual wellness visits, and CAHPS
  • Lessons from scaling a health tech company in Montana, with support from mentors and investors like Esther Dyson
  • Real talk on resilience, motherhood, team building, and staying alive through tough cycles
  • What health plan leaders, quality and risk teams, and investor partners should know about Avanlee Care right now

Listen for:

  • Simple, structured steps health plans can take to bring caregivers into the loop
  • A founder’s playbook for surviving early years, finding product-market fit, and creating momentum outside traditional tech hubs

 

 

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