Technology has given thrust to almost every compatible industry. And health industry is not an exception. On one hand, technology has boosted the innovations and experiments in the industry, on the other hand, it has opened new doors for profit by connecting patients to the experts and facilitating door-step medicine delivery.
This is the start-up era and the health industry has also sensed the momentum. Several healthcare startups have turned into a billion-dollar industry.
In this article, we hand over the details about successful health startups.
1) Alan
Health insurance has always been a priority for everyone. Alan took it a step ahead to make the process more convenient and affordable.
Startup Details
- Website: https://alan.com
- Start Year: 2016
- Country: France
- City: Paris
- Founders: Jean Charles Samuelian, Charles Gorintin
- Valuation: $1.68B (As of Apr 2016)
2) Alphaeon
Alphaeon facilitates both doctors and patients. For patients, it offers quick credit facilities by issuing a credit card. For doctors, it is a relief that patients get quick credit approval.
Startup Details
- Website: https://alphaeon.com
- Start Year: 2013
- Country: United States
- City: Irvine
- Founders: Robert Edward Grant
3) Alzheon
Alzheon is a bio-pharmaceutical company to cure Alzheimer’s disease. It is also in the process to discover the small molecules to cure neurodegenerative disorders.
Startup Details
- Website: https://alzheon.com
- Start Year: 2013
- Country: United States
- City: Lexington
- Founders: Martin Tolar
- Valuation: $1.31B (As of Sep 2020)
4) Babylon Health
Babylon health is on a mission to make healthcare advice accessible to everyone through the devices they already own. To do so, Babylon combines cutting edge AI (Artificial Intelligence) and broader technologies with the best human expertise.
Startup Details
- Website: https://www.babylonhealth.com
- Start Year: 2013
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: London
- Founders: Ali Parsa
- Valuation: $2.00B (As of Aug 2019)
5) Bright Health
Bright Health provides personally curated health insurance services. To do so Bright Health has established a network of doctors, clinics and hospitals called in-house as Care Partners.
Startup Details
Website: https://brighthealthcare.com
Start Year: 2015
Country: United States
City: Minneapolis
Founders: Robert John Sheehy, Kyle Rolfing, Tom Valdivia
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Dec 2019)
6) Calm
Calm is an app for relaxation, meditation and self-improvement. It offers various services viz. improve sleep quality, reduce stress, improve focus, self-improvement among others.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.calm.com
Start Year: 2012
Country: United States
City: San Fransisco
Founders: Michael Acton Smith, Alex Tew
Valuation: $2.00B (As of Feb 2019)
7) Cityblock Health
Cityblock Health promises to deliver assistance in every form at the doorstep. To do so, Cityblock Health first assigns a Community Health Partner to understand the patient better in every way, thus builds trust. Facilities like a nurse, physician or mental health specialist are at disposal 24/7.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.cityblock.com
Start Year: 2017
Country: United States
City: Brooklyn
Founders: Iyah Romm, Bay Gross, Toyin Ajayi, Mat Balez
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Dec 2020)
8) CMR Surgical
CMR Surgical is on a mission to revolutionize how surgery is performed. With its Versious robotics solution, CMR Surgical is empowering surgeons to make sure that minimal access surgery is accessible to everyone.
Startup Details
Website: https://cmrsurgical.com
Start Year: 2014
Country: United Kingdom
City: Cambridge
Founders: Mark Slack, Luke Hares, Martin Frost
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Sep 2019)
9) Color
Color is a data-driven platform for population health. It works with physicians, employers, researchers, health systems and national health initiatives worldwide for health improvements.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.color.com
Start Year: 2015
Country: United States
City: Burlingame
Founders: Nish Bhat, Elad Gil, Taylor Sittler, Othman Laraki
Valuation: $1.50B (As of Jan 2021)
10) Dispatch Health
Dispatch Health promises doorstep healthcare facilities. Its medical team is equipped with advanced tools necessary for common to complex injuries and diseases that are urgent but not life-threatening.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.dispatchhealth.com
Start Year: 2013
Country: United States
City: Denver
Founders: Mark Prather, Kevin Riddleberger
Valuation: $1.70B ( As of Mar 2021)
11) DXY
DXY connects hospitals, doctors, scientific researchers, patients, pharmaceuticals and insurance companies through professional content sharing, online interactions, data accumulation and high-quality health care products.
Startup Details
Website: https://portal.dxy.cn
Start Year: 2000
Country: China
City: Hangzhou
Founders: Tiantian Li, Jin Zhang
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Apr 2018)
12) EverlyWell
EverlyWell offers the service for various specimen collections at the doorstep. For regulatory reasons, their services are not available in New York, except for COVID-19.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.everlywell.com
Start Year: 2015
Country: United States
City: Austin
Founders: Julia Taylor Cheek
Valuation: $1.30B (As of Dec 2020)
13) Forward Health Group
Forward Health Group provides services related to data solutions within the health care industry. Its aim is to bring closer the service providers and consumers in the health care industry by interpreting complex data.
Startup Details
Website: https://forward.health
Start Year: 2009
Country: United States
City: Madison
Founders: Michael Barbouche
Valuation: $1B (As of Mar 2021)
14) Grand Rounds Health
Grand Rounds Health has a team of doctors, nurses, care coordinators and billing specialists to take care of its consumers 24/7. No matter what assistance (whether physical or virtual) you need regarding your health, its team is available.
Startup Details
Website: https://grandrounds.com
Start Year: 2011
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Founders: Owen Tripp, Lawrence Hofmann
Valuation: $1.34B ( As of Sep 2020)
15) Hinge Health
Hinge Health is a digital platform for musculoskeletal (MSK) solutions. It presents itself as a digital MSK clinic for the whole body. Equipped with the latest technology, Hinge health has a vast team of certified health coaches, licensed doctors of physical therapy, physicians and orthopaedic surgeons.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.hingehealth.com
Start Year: 2015
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Founders: Gabriel Mecklenburg, Daniel Perez
Valuation: $3.00B (As of Jan 2021)
16) Innovaccer
Innovaccer is on a mission to make healthcare information more useful by curating and connecting the nodes of global healthcare information. Its cloud platform also acts as a mediator between the developers and the information.
Startup Details
Website: https://innovaccer.com
Start Year: 2014
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Founders: Abhinav Shashank, Sanjeev Gupta, Kanav Hasija
Valuation: $1.30B (As of Feb 2021)
17) Intarcia Therapeutics
Intarcia Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on innovating the prevention and management of chronic diseases using a proprietary delivery system.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.intarcia.com
Start Year: 1997
Country: United States
City: Hayward
Founders: James M. Ahlers, David Franklin, Thomas Alessi
Valuation: $3.80B (As of Apr 2014)
18) Komodo Health
Komodo Health brings solutions to the healthcare industry by extracting information from data.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.komodohealth.com
Start Year: 2014
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Founders: Web Sun, Arif Nathoo
Valuation: $3.30B (As of Mar2021)
19) Lyell Immunopharma
Lyell Immunopharma presents itself as a T cell reprogramming company dedicated to the mastery of T cells to cure patients with solid tumors.
Startup Details
Website: https://lyell.com
Start Year: 2018
Country: United States
City: South San Francisco
Founders: Scott Boyken, Rick Klausner
Valuation: $2.20B (As of Feb 2019)
20) Medlinker
Medlinker is China’s leading chronic disease management platform. It is a technology-driven platform to assist chronic disease patients lead a better life.
Startup Details
Website: https://medlinker.com
Start Year: 2014
Country: China
City: Beijing
Founders: Shirui Wang
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Jul 2018)
21) Miaoshou Doctor
Miaoshou Doctor is a communication platform that connects doctors with patients.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.miaoshou.net
Start Year: 2015
Country: China
City: Beijing
Founders: Tao He, Daoliang Han
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Jun 2019)
22) MindMaze
MindMaze is on a mission to cure neurological diseases with the expertise of neuroscience, biosensing, engineering, mixed reality and artificial intelligence.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.mindmaze.com
Start Year: 2012
Country: Switzerland
City: Lausanne
Founders: Tej Tadi
Valuation: $1.00B (As of Jan 2016)
23) Olive
Olive is an AI system that automates the process of gathering, editing data and connecting healthcare industry nodes to each other.
Startup Details
Website: https://oliveai.com
Start Year: 2012
Country: United States
City: Columbus
Founders: Sean Lane, Bradley Mascho
Valuation: $1.50B (As of Dec 2020)
24) orCam Technologies
orCam’s mission is to provide a better life to blinds and visually impaired patients. It exploits the power of artificial vision with the help of advanced technology to build a wearable product.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.orcam.com/en/
Start Year: 2010
Country: Israel
City: Jerusalem
Founders: Ziv Aviram, Amnon Shashua
Valuation: $1.03B (As of Feb 2018)
25) Pharmapacks
Pharmapacks is an eCommerce platform that connects consumers to their health, wellness and beauty brands on popular online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart etc.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.pharmapacks.com
Start Year: 2010
Country: United States
City: Islandia
Founders: Andrew Vagenas, Adam Berkowitz, Jonathan Webb and Bradley Tramunti
Valuation: $1.10B (As of Nov 2020)
26) Radiology Partners
Radiology Partners is transforming radiology for radiologists, radiology practices, hospitals, health systems, patients and families.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.radpartners.com
Start Year: 2012
Country: United States
City: El Sugendo
Founders: Richard Whitney, Anthony Gabriel
Valuation: $4.00B (Jul 2019)
27) Ro
Ro’s vision is to empower physicians, nurses and pharmacists with the help of technology. It aims to provide complete medical facilities itself or guide the patients if they can get a better hand somewhere else.
Startup Details
Website: https://ro.co
Start Year: 2017
Country: United States
City: New York
Founders: Saman Rahmanian, Rob Schutz, Zachariah Reitano
Valuation: $5.00B (As of Jul 2020)
28) Sema4
Sema4 is a patient-centred health intelligence company that aims to advance in healthcare through data analysis accompanied by AI. With the help of machine learning and AI, it analyses the data to build dynamic models of human health derive personalized health trajectories as well. Its intelligence platform Centrellis® provides a complete understanding of human health problems and its solution.
Startup Details
Website: https://sema4.com
Start Year: 2017
Country: United States
City: Stamford
Founders: Eric Schadt
Valuation: $1.10B (As of Jul 2020)
29) Tempus
Tempus has built a vast library of molecular and clinical data along with an operating system. The information extracted from this data is made accessible to patients, researchers and physicians.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.tempus.com
Start Year: 2015
Country: United States
City: Chicago
Founders: Eric Lefkofsky
Valuation: $8.10B (Mar 2018)
30) Unite US
Unite Us standardizes how health and social care providers can communicate among themselves as well as track the outcomes.
Startup Details
Website: https://uniteus.com
Start Year: 2013
Country: United States
City: New York
Founders: Daniel Brillman, Andrew Price, Taylor Justice, Kareem Elsirafy
Valuation: $1.60B (As of Mar 2021)
31) Verily
Verily aims to provide timely assistance to the patients through health workers by providing better information within time. It is a data-driven platform.
Startup Details
Website: https://verily.com
Start Year: 2015
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Founders: Brian Otis, Andrew Conrad, Jessica Mega
Valuation: $1.60B (As of Jan 2017)
32) Village MD
Village MD’s vision is to make healthcare services accessible to everyone. To do so it empowers the primary care physicians by providing tools, staffing support, technology and industry relationship
Startup Details
Website: https://www.villagemd.com
Start Year: 2013
Country: United States
City: Chicago
Founders: Paul Martino, Clive Fields, Tim Barry
Valuation: $1.00B (As of 2020)
33) Virta Health
Virta Health’s mission revolves around the solution of diabetes and weight. It implements personalized nutrition therapy with continuous virtual track and assistance to achieve its goal.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.virtahealth.com
Start Year: 2014
Country: United States
City: San Francisco
Founders: Sami Inkinen
Valuation: $2.00B (As of Dec 2020)
34) WeDoctor
WeDoctor is a platform for health institutions and multi-speciality medical practitioners.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.guahao.com
Start Year: 2010
Country: China
City: Xiaoshan
Founders: Liao Jieyuan
Valuation: $7.00B (As of Sep 2015)
35) Yitu Technology
Yitu Technology integrates AI technologies with health industry applications.
Startup Details
Website: https://www.yitutech.com/en/
Start Year: 2012
Country: China
City: Shanghai
Founders: Zhu Long, Lin Chenxi
Valuation: $2.17B (As of Mar 2018)