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Reversing Diabetes With Sami Inkinen of Virta Health

January 4, 2022Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, StartupsCure Disease, diabetes, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Logan Plaster, Moonshots, Sami Inkinen, Type 2 Diabetes, Type II Diabetes, Virta, Virta HealthNicole Kinsey

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The numbers surrounding Type 2 diabetes are staggering. The WHO puts the number north of 400 million people globally, and it’s just getting worse. Health experts agree that Type 2 diabetes can largely be managed by a combination of nutrition, exercise, and medication. But what if it could be reversed completely? That’s the claim, and the health moonshot, of our guest today, Sami Inkinen, CEO and Founder of Virta, which StartUp Health backed in 2020. Specifically, Inkinen and his team want to reverse Type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025.

Before Virta, Inkinen disrupted the real estate industry by co-founding Trulia, which he sold to Zillow for $2.5B. Now with Virta, he’s raised more than $350M to date, giving him the capital needed to take a great idea and scale it in unprecedented ways.

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For Ironman Athlete David Weingard, a Diabetes Diagnosis Was a Spark for Innovation

November 30, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, UncategorizedAccess to care, Cecelia Health, Cure Disease, David Weingard, diabetes, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Logan Plaster, Startup, StartUp HealthStartUp Health

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Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who hasn’t been impacted by diabetes in some way. Globally, half a billion people are affected by the disease, and it was responsible for the deaths of 1.5M people globally in 2019. As frightening as those numbers are, there is also great hope to be found today in the entrepreneurs and innovations changing how we manage diabetes. To understand both sides of this coin – the very personal toll of diabetes plus the present and future promise of health technology – we talked to David Weingard, founder of Cecelia Health, which helps diabetics get the specialized health coaching they need. More importantly, David is a type 1 diabetic who has fought for his own life and knows the daily fears and challenges that this silent disease brings to millions. It’s that combination of experience that makes David’s journey so powerful.

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youturn’s Shay Houser Is Making Addiction Treatment More Accessible

November 8, 2021Business, Health, Innovation, Insights, Startups, UncategorizedAddiction, end addiction, Health Moonshot, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Logan Plaster, Shay Houser, youturnStartUp Health

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On this podcast episode, which was recorded live on the floor of HLTH in Boston in October, StartUp Health’s Logan Plaster sits down with Shay Houser, the CEO and Co-founder of youturn. Shay and his team are working to fight addiction by making addiction treatment resources more accessible. They’ve recognized that it isn’t just the addicted person who is effected, but a wide community of friends and family, so they’re working with employers to address problems early and to respond to addiction as a community of support. Shay comes at youturn as both a serial entrepreneur and as someone who has struggled with addiction. That combination of tactical and personal experience has helped the startup secure important early partnerships, which Shay discusses in the interview.

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Two Founders Transforming Children’s Health

November 2, 2021UncategorizedChildrens Health, Childrens healthcare, Danny Hui, disability care, Dr. Sandy Whitehouse, Health Moonshot, Health Moonshot Series, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, India Edwards, Logan Plaster, sameview, Sandy Whitehouse, StartUp Health, Tickit healthStartUp Health

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This special episode is part of our monthly Health Moonshot series. Each month we take one of StartUp Health’s 12 audacious health goals and highlight founders working to make the impossible a reality. Now, we’re talking about Children’s Health. Hosts Logan Plaster and India Edwards discuss two entrepreneurs from the StartUp Health portfolio who have developed incredible technology to help advance children’s healthcare. Dr. Sandy Whitehouse, CEO, Co-founder, and Chief Medical Officer of Tickit Health, a startup that’s based in Vancouver, works with educational, clinical, and youth service experts around the world to capture personal information from individuals via digitally empathetic surveys and assessments and other management tools to collect data to address the rise of stress, bullying, substance use, and other risky behaviors in youth. Danny Hui, the CEO & Founder of sameview, a startup out of Sydney, Australia, is working to bring teamwork into disability care.

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