Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Rough Draft Ventures is a student-led team that funds technology-focused university entrepreneurs. They invest checks through founder-friendly SAFEs via their network of student fellows, supplying the brightest student founders across the US with meaningful resources, access to education, and one of their earliest support systems. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Rough Draft Ventures

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies. The fund aims to invest in the consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life science, and marketplaces industries at the earliest stage, as early as pre-seed round and as late as Series A. It supports companies based on a conviction in the team and seeks entrepreneurs working at the beginning of movements in existing markets or new markets yet to be created and with visions to create the next generation of category-defining businesses. Their typical investment ranges from $200,000 to $500,000. Adam Rothenberg and David Tisch founded BoxGroup in 2009 in New York, New York.

BoxGroup

Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation. Built by students and powered by First Round, we provide founders with a strong network of investors, world-class mentors, and a $20,000 check.

Dorm Room Fund

Great Oaks is an early-stage venture investment firm that invests in seed and series a investments in tech-based startups. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.

Great Oaks Venture Capital

The Graduate Syndicate is led by Jeff Bussgang, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (HBS) and co-founder and general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners. They invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups led by recent graduates of Harvard, primarily HBS. In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown tremendously on campus and many valuable companies have been created by recent graduates. Their goal is to bring investors, students, graduates, and friends of Harvard together to build successful, impactful and sustainable companies

The Graduate Syndicate

Atypical Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It offers funding services to business entrepreneurs, emerging, and start-up companies.

Atypical Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. The company provides ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success.

General Catalyst

Rock Health Capital is a full-service seed fund that invests in and supports startups working in digital health. The company invests in entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Rock Health Capital is a digital health-focused investment firm.

Rock Health Capital

Core Innovation Capital is a fintech venture capital firm investing in companies committed to empowering small businesses and everyday Americans. Their portfolio companies deliver more efficient, well-designed solutions that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale broadly — driving both profit margins and consumer value.

Core Innovation Capital

Ribbon Health

Ribbon Health is a health care data platform that provides the critical infrastructure that payers, providers, and digital health solutions need to enable accurate provider directories, reliable referral management, and efficient care navigation.

<div>New York-based Ribbon Health offers a health data platform for healthcare providers with solutions such as provider directories, referral management, care navigation, and insurance enrollments through its data aggregator and predictive models. Ribbon provides information on doctors, plans, and health solution costs, serving nearly 30 healthcare organizations including Oak Street Health, as of November 2021.</div>

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

Ribbon Health offers an API platform that aggregates and curates provider data from thousands of sources using proprietary AI models. This comprehensive dataset covers 99.9% of healthcare providers and facilities in the US and is continuously updated to ensure accuracy. Ribbon Health's platform enables healthcare enterprises to access this provider data, along with information on insurance networks, care costs, and quality metrics, through a seamless API integration.

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Hospital Interoperability

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 New York-based Ribbon Health offers a health data platform for healthcare providers with solutions such as provider directories, referral management, care navigation, and insurance enrollments through its data aggregator and predictive models. Ribbon provides information on doctors, plans, and health solution costs, serving nearly 30 healthcare organizations including Oak Street Health, as of November 2021.
 
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 Nice Healthcare is a US based telehealth company with a focus on primary care services to business-to-business (B2B) clients. Once the employer signs its employees with Nice (at a cost of USD 30 to USD 36 per employee per month), employees do not have to incur out of pocket expenses for Nice services and can schedule virtual or home visits within the time frames specified by the company. It connects patients with practitioners through a mobile app over video calls or text messages. Members can also request home visits which will be completed within a few hours, as claimed by the company. As of March 2022, Nice was operating in twelve states, and had over 400 small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
 
 
 In March 2022, the company raised USD 30 million in Series A financing led by DNA Capital which has been earmarked to expand its platform&rsquo;s reach among small and medium businesses. Additionally, the company is hiring three members for its management team to support the continuing growth of the organization.
 
 
 
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Nice Healthcare

Amicomed is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which provides blood pressure monitoring services. It collects blood pressure data of patients from at-home devices, applies algorithms, and assesses the fluctuations in the blood pressure. Physicians can be connected and provided with blood pressure data of their patients in order to facilitate their workload, enabling more personalized management of patients regarding medication and lifestyle indications.Amicomed can also recommend actionable and personalized lifestyle interventions such as daily diet and exercises via virtual coaching.

Amicomed

Winston is a men’s health telemedicine platform that treats common issues impacting men such as sexual problems, hair loss, acne, and cold sores. Winston allows patients to consult doctors, place orders for prescription drugs, and offers free delivery to the homes of patients.The Toronto-based company aims to avoid men deferring doctor visits or withholding sensitive information. The consultation fee is covered by the provincial health plan, but the prescriptions are billed to the customer.

Winston

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 Dialogue partners with employers and health insurers to offer telehealth services to their employees and members. The users have 24/7 access to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals via audio, video, and chat options for wide arrays of physical and mental health needs, artificial intelligence-enabled (AI-enabled) triage, referrals, and prescription renewals. 
 
 
 The company launched its trademarked Integrated Health Platform in January 2021 to consolidate its virtual care, wellness programs, mental healthcare services, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) onto a single platform. The company claims to be the only integrated health and wellness B2B platform in Canada. 
 
 
 Key Customers and partnerships
 
 
 Dialogue had direct relationships with over 2,000 customers across Canada and Germany as of December 2020 and served around 50,000 organizations through these partnerships. In addition, the number of members with access to the virtual platform topped 1 million in January 2021. 
 
 
 Fundings and financials
 
 
 As of March 2021, Dialogue was planning to raise CAD 100 million (USD 80 million) from an initial public offering that will be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &ldquo;CARE.&rdquo; 
 
 
 In Q2 2023, net losses reduced significantly YoY to CAD 5.8 million (USD 4.3 million) from CAD 8.4 million (USD 6.3 million) in Q2 2022. Top-line revenue met internal expectations, growing 17.2% YoY to CAD 25.5 million (USD 19.0 million), driven by &nbsp;an increase in new members (by 18.6% YoY), 
 an expansion of the attach rate as existing customers added more services, and full-quarter contributions from Tictrac.
 
 Dialogue Health has not provided any forward-looking guidance as the company has entered into an agreement to be 
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 acquired by financial services company Sun Life Financial
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 for a consideration of CAD 365 million (USD 270 million) or CAD 5.15 (USD 3.82) per share. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2023. Post acquisition, Dialogue will delist from the Toronto Stock Exchange but will continue to operate as a standalone entity under the &ldquo;Sun Life Canada&rdquo; brand from its head office in Qu&eacute;bec. 
 
 
 
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Dialogue

Grin offers telemedicine and remote monitoring services for orthodontic needs such as braces and teeth straightening. Patients can conduct self-scans (using a Grin device made available to patients in collaboration with 3M) which can be connected to their smartphones and share the feed with orthodontists to access dental solutions. The company plans to go to a subscription-based model after the pandemic. The app also encourages patients to have a 40-second check monthly and share the scan with a dentist in order to allow patients to regularly maintain their dental hygiene.Grin is the only Telehealth disruptor covered on the hub that provides virtual orthopaedic consultations.Funding and financialsIn April 2021, the New York-based teledental platform concluded a seed funding of USD 14 million, and the funds will be allocated to develop additional functionalities by building out its technology. The proceeds will also be used to scale up its team, expand its geographic footprint, and add doctors to the company’s orthodontic partner network.

Grin

Real-time collection of patients’ health-related data using any remote patient monitoring device combined with general telemedicine services to reduce readmission rates. 


A platform that facilitates the transmission of patient data to different locations for further evaluation and interpretation by medical specialists. 


A digital platform that offers specialty care services to address the specific needs of a patient or demographic, including consultations where patients are generally reluctant to meet practitioners face-to-face.

Primary care through virtual consultations for general health-related concerns using a digital platform or mobile app. 

Companies developing B2B software solutions for patient engagement, care navigation, practice management, and electronic health records integration to facilitate telehealth services for healthcare providers. 

IoT is used by most telehealth providers to operate virtual services

All telehealth players are involved in digital health via virtual offerings

Industry players offer varying degrees of personalization for each target audience

Some players offer technology and platforms to healthcare providers, converting physical-only services into virtual services

Specific telehealth offerings focus on diversity and inclusion, providing care to LGBTQ+ or BIPOC populations

Generative AI is used to streamline administrative tasks such as clinical note-taking

Ribbon Health offers an API platform that aggregates and curates provider data from thousands of sources using proprietary AI models. This comprehensive dataset covers 99.9% of healthcare providers and facilities in the US and is continuously updated to ensure accuracy. Ribbon Health's platform enables healthcare enterprises to access this provider data, along with information on insurance networks, care costs, and quality metrics, through a seamless API integration.
In March 2024, Ribbon Health launched its Provider Data Platform, a cloud-native SaaS solution that combines its high-quality provider directory with advanced data management capabilities. This first-of-its-kind platform allows healthcare organizations to configure custom data workflows, driving operational efficiency and unlocking business value from provider data. Customers have reported reducing data intake and processing costs by up to 95% and improving data accuracy by up to 90% through the use of Ribbon Health's platform.
Key customers and partnerships
Ribbon Health partners with a wide range of healthcare organizations, including primary care providers, care navigation companies, employee benefits firms, and health insurance plans. Notable customers include HealthAdvocate, Firefly Health, Healthee, and two of the top five national health plans in the US
The company has also established partnerships with other healthcare technology companies to enhance its platform offerings. In June 2022, Ribbon Health announced an integration with Turquoise Health, a leader in price transparency data, to enable healthcare companies to navigate patients to cost-effective, high-quality care by combining provider information with pricing data.
In April 2023, Ribbon Health partnered with MDsave, a platform for transparent and transactable healthcare services. This collaboration allowed care navigators servicing self-funded employers to access MDsave's nationwide network of bundled care options directly through Ribbon Health's platform, facilitating the purchase of cost-effective care for patients.

Redox is a leading healthcare technology company that provides a secure and efficient platform for exchanging healthcare data. Its core offering is an integration engine that enables seamless connectivity between various healthcare systems, electronic health records (EHRs), and digital health applications. By acting as a single, standardized API endpoint, Redox simplifies the complex process of interoperability, allowing healthcare organizations to share and access patient data seamlessly.
Redox's platform is built on a standardized data model format, utilizing HTTPS communication with JSON to facilitate secure and convenient integration for healthcare applications. The company's ecosystem encompasses a vast network of over 2,000 healthcare delivery organizations, 350 healthcare software vendors, and connections to more than 90 EHR systems. This extensive reach enables Redox's customers, including payers, providers, and digital health companies, to exchange data with a wide range of healthcare stakeholders.
The company's offerings include Redox Nexus, a managed integration platform that facilitates interoperability between legacy formats and the current FHIR standard; Redox Nova, which enables cloud-based data integration and translation of legacy standards into FHIR; Redox Access, which connects to national clinical networks like Carequality and DirectTrust for seamless clinical data exchange; and Redox Chroma, an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) solution that aggregates patient records across multiple data sources.
Key customers and partnerships
Redox has established partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and companies, including Mytonomy, a video-based patient engagement company. Mytonomy leverages Redox's integration capabilities to synchronize the assignment and viewership of its educational video modules with health system EHRs, ensuring seamless documentation of patient education activities.
Furthermore, Redox has collaborated with Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Cardiology, enabling the integration of Mytonomy's patient education platform with the center's EHR system.
The company has also forged alliances with healthcare consulting firms like Productive Edge, providing joint solutions for healthcare data integration and strategy development.

Redox

Moxe Health, based in Madison, WI, is a healthcare interoperability company that utilizes innovative technology to simplify and improve the secure exchange of clinical data and crucial insights between healthcare payers and providers. Through its API-enabled solutions compatible with leading electronic health records (EHRs), Moxe fosters meaningful collaboration within the healthcare ecosystem by connecting various stakeholders and facilitating faster, more cost-effective data exchange.
The company's digital release of information (ROI) product automates requests for medical charts, enabling providers to securely fulfill such requests in seconds, eliminating manual processes, paper, faxes, and phone calls. Additionally, Moxe's convergence product allows payers to input their insights directly into the EHR for providers to access. By streamlining data sharing, Moxe empowers providers and payers to optimize operations, improve accuracy, and deliver better financial and clinical outcomes.
As of June 2022, Moxe's network connected major health systems, national health plans representing over 75 million lives, leading third-party requestors, and more than 60 hospital systems. The company aimed to accelerate its mission of advancing interoperability and making healthcare more affordable by eliminating administrative waste through its patient-centric solutions.
Key customers and partnerships
Moxe Health partners with leading healthcare organizations, including Allscripts, whose Allscripts Sunrise EHR users can leverage Moxe's Digital ROI solution for efficient data exchange between health systems, payers, and third-party requestors.

Moxe Health

Particle Health is a developer-friendly API platform that aggregates and standardizes data from over 270 million patients' medical records across thousands of healthcare sources in the US. The company's comprehensive API enables healthcare providers and digital health companies to easily obtain clinical data points and actionable patient health insights through a single integration. Particle Health's technology performs patient matching behind the scenes to connect accounts within HIPAA authorization, overcoming the challenges of accessing medical records across different portals and providers.
Since its inception, Particle Health has achieved significant milestones, including a 90% success rate in finding patient records and an average of 105 records per patient search as of July 2022. The company has expanded its offering beyond electronic medical records (EMRs) to include data sources such as pharmacy records, admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications, and billing claims data, with plans to integrate genomics and other sources in the future.
Key customers and partnerships
Particle Health has formed notable partnerships and collaborations with various healthcare companies and organizations. For instance, xCures, a technology platform that uses artificial intelligence and predictive modeling to identify and rank treatment options for cancer patients, has integrated Particle Health's Specialty Search capabilities. This integration allows xCures to efficiently access comprehensive oncology data, leading to a significant increase in program enrollment and better patient care management.
Another strategic partnership was announced in November 2023 between Particle Health and Hona, a customizable AI product that converts health records into concise patient overviews. By integrating Particle Health's API for medical record retrieval, Hona can analyze and present a complete view of a patient's health history, enabling providers to make informed clinical decisions and streamline care encounters.

Particle Health

Verto Health is a Canadian digital health company that offers a Digital Twin Orchestration Platform. Its patented machine learning technology consolidates data from various sources to create normalized, contextual snapshots – known as 'Digital Twins' – of each patient's healthcare journey. Verto's platform then automates actions across different systems while securely managing consent, data, and communication.
In October 2022, Unity Health Toronto implemented Verto's technology to help manage ambulatory patient flow, streamline consent management, and transform patient experience across dozens of ambulatory clinics. Verto's solution allowed Unity Health to coordinate and engage with patients before, during, after, and in-between hospital visits, supporting care pathway management and enhancing the patient experience.
Key customers and partnerships
In July 2023, Verto Health partnered with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to develop a web-based Digital Front Door platform. This platform aimed to digitize the patient journey and support data-driven, measurement-based care for CAMH's patients and care providers. The collaboration involved co-designing, configuring, and implementing the Digital Front Door to act as a single-point of entry for CAMH patients and families, enabling virtual care and integrating various patient-facing information systems.

Verto Health

Wellsheet is the leading provider of a Smart Electronic Health Record (EHR) User Interface (UI) solution that aims to reduce clinician burnout and increase efficiency and usability of EHRs. The company's technology utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to synthesize, summarize, and elevate relevant clinical data from EHRs like Cerner, Epic, or athenahealth, as well as other data sources.Wellsheet's Smart EHR UI predicts and prioritizes the most pertinent data based on a clinician's specialty and workflow habits, assembling it in an intuitive and customizable manner. This enables providers to quickly arrive at accurate clinical insights without compromising patient interactions. By embedding within existing EHRs, the solution helps clinicians understand what needs to be done and make more informed decisions while reducing errors.As of July 2022, Wellsheet had an enterprise-wide deployment with over 10,000 clinicians using its interface, reducing the time spent in EHRs for physicians, nurses, and care managers. The company's FHIR-based APIs allow for rapid implementation across multiple data sources within weeks and minimal training requirements.

Wellsheet

Includes tools that allow healthcare providers to aggregate clinical data (both structured and unstructured) from a variety of sources and share this information with other providers, patients, or insurance providers.

Platforms that provide interoperability APIs and developer toolkits that allow siloed healthcare applications or systems to communicate with each other. Targeted at both healthcare providers and digital health apps.

Software platforms that integrate patient information (including social determinants of health) from multiple sources to digital tools. These tools support patient management and offer actionable insights on a patient's health by leveraging data analytics.

Healthcare data is exchanged, shared, and interpreted via digital mediums

AI/ML algorithms aggregate and standardize data for seamless sharing between healthcare systems

IoT technology is being used to improve hospital interoperability, connectivity, and secure data sharing

Ribbon Health

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