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StartUp Health NOW Podcast

StartUp Health NOW Podcast

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Episodes

319

Latest episode

Aug 2026

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EN

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StartUp Health NOW celebrates the innovators, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs who are reimagining health and wellness.

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August 27, 202618 min

What it really takes to bring AI into the hospital room: Avo’s physician-first case for AI-powered clinical decisions

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...

August 20, 202619 min

Dr. Yusuf Sherwani on scaling Pelago, raising $150M, and the future of AI therapy

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...

August 13, 202616 min

Inside MEI Micro's mission to bring military-grade sensors to healthcare

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...

August 10, 202628 min

Speed, safety, and scale – Microsoft's playbook for health AI

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...

August 7, 202614 min

How GPx is turning a smartwatch into an early warning system for heart failure

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 ...

August 4, 202625 min

What Happens When Clinicians Become Innovators | Live @ Civic Health Forum

"It's not patients or profits, it's better health and healthcare." Gillian Sandler of Northwell Health sets the tone early in this episode, recorded live at Civic Health Forum. Moderator Sara Holoubek of Luminary Labs sits down with three leaders worki...

July 29, 202624 min

3 Founders on the Real Cost of Health Access | Live @ Civic Health Forum

At the Civic Health Forum, StartUp Health Managing Director Logan Plaster sat down with three founders building access-first solutions in health innovation: Elina Onitskansky of Ilant Health, Rafael Lopez of Diagnostikare, and Terry Huang, PhD, MPH, of...

July 23, 202621 min

Inside General Catalyst's health assurance transformation playbook, with Holly Maloney

General Catalyst manages more than $40B across AI, global resilience, and health assurance – and its boldest healthcare move yet was buying Summa Health outright. On this StartUp Health NOW podcast episode, Holly Maloney, who leads GC's health assuranc...

July 14, 202632 min

Building the Rails: The Systems That Power Innovation | Live @ Civic Health Forum

Public health has an image problem. It rarely shows up until something goes wrong, which makes it one of the hardest things to fund and one of the easiest to underinvest in. This episode gets specific about what that underinvestment actually costs, and...

July 7, 202624 min

What it takes to trust health innovation: A conversation with JAMA Network Editor in Chief Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, has a front-row seat to the tension at the heart of health innovation. As Editor in Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network, she oversees 13 journals that sit at the intersection of clinical medicine, public health, and eme...

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