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American Heart Association Ventures managing partner Lisa Suennen sits down with StartUp Health for a candid conversation spanning her early days scaling a health services company from $5 million to $800 million in revenue, through her current thesis a... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.

In this episode, Logan Plaster talks with Drew Schiller, Chief Development Officer at ChartSpan and Co-founder of Validic, about what it takes to get a digital health company across the finish line. Schiller recounts the deals that fell apart, includin...

Gregory Moore, MD, PhD, Senior Adviser to Gates Ventures on the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), joins Logan Plaster for an update on the Alzheimer's and Brain Health Moonshot ahead of the Alzheimer's Insight Summit 4 coming up...

UnaliWear founder Jean Anne Booth talks with Logan Plaster about building the Kanega Watch, a wearable medical alert designed around a simple but overlooked truth: a device only protects you if you're willing to wear it. Jean Anne walks through her mot...

In this Fireside Chat, Venrock partner Bob Kocher sits down with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes to unpack why AI will drive more healthcare activity rather than lower prices, where he sees real opportunity for founders (from geriatric behavior...

After 11 years building Journey and recently named to TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 list ( https://media.startuphealth.com/p/15-startup-health-member-companies-included-in-time-s-list-of-the-world-s-top-healthtech-companies-2 ), founder ...

In this Health Moonshot Update, long-time community member Brant Herman, CEO & Founder of MouthWatch and Dentistry.One, joins StartUp Health's Logan Plaster to talk about building a virtual-first teledentistry network that meets patients at the moments...

Cristian Pascual, CEO & Co-founder of Mediktor, talks with StartUp Health’s Logan Plaster about the evolution of AI-powered triage, why healthcare delivery demands professional-grade tools rather than general-purpose AI, and what it's taking to close M...

What does it take to build a health AI company that actually gets funded right now? Greg Yap, Partner at Menlo Ventures, sits down with StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes to unpack how a 50-year-old venture firm is investing across the health AI l...

What if the richest data about your health wasn't on your wrist, but in your breath? Sathya Elumalai, CEO & Co-founder of Aidar Health, joins Logan Plaster for a Health Moonshot Update on MouthLab – a handheld device that reads roughly 10 vital signs f...

Fresh off a Series A ( https://media.startuphealth.com/p/avo-raises-10m-series-a-for-clinical-ai-platform-startup-health-insights-week-of-mar-31-2026 ), Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, CEO & Co-founder of Avo ( http://startuphealth.com/avomd ), sits down wit...

Long-time StartUp Health community member Yusuf Sherwani, MD, didn't set out to build an AI mental health specialist. Nine years ago, he co-founded Pelago ( https://startuphealth.com/pelago ) as a virtual clinic for substance use disorder – called Quit...

What if the sensor in your wearable is the limiting factor in what it can tell you about your health? StartUp Health member Louis Ross, CEO & Founder of MEI Micro ( https://www.startuphealth.com/mei-micro ), joins Logan Plaster to unpack the science be...

In this episode, Unity Stoakes talks with Kimmi Grewal, Vice President of AI Ecosystem Partnerships at Microsoft, about what it actually takes for health innovators to turn AI potential into products, partnerships, and scale. Grewal – who has served on...

Heart failure patients are often living in a black box – not knowing how they're really doing until they end up in the ER. StartUp Health community member Sean Matsuoka, CEO & Co-founder of General Prognostics (GPx) ( https://www.startuphealth.com/gpx ...