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Patient access startups are quietly becoming benefits infrastructure
The startups winning in patient access right now are not pitching patients anymore. They are pitching the employers and health plans that decide what patients can access in the first place. A…
Prevention startups are starting to sell to employers, not just patients
A growing set of preventive health startups are building their entire go to market around employer sponsored coverage,…
WHOOP just joined a Medicare payment model, and the line between wellness wearable and medical device is getting harder to find
A $575M raise at a $10.1B valuation came with a new kind of validation: a spot in a ten-year CMS program built for…
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Sleep tech just proved you don’t need a $10B valuation to be capital efficient
Eight Sleep hit free cash flow positive on a fraction of Oura and WHOOP’s total raise, and that’s a more interesting…
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Market Insights
Medtech hardware keeps raising nine-figure rounds. The software layer underneath it is starving for capital by comparison
Implantable devices captured half of all medtech funding in a year. Device data platforms captured under 5%, and…
Behavioral health claims are 36 times any other telehealth category, and that concentration made and unmade startups this year
Telehealth didn’t become healthcare for everything, and the startups that bet otherwise are the ones getting acquired…
Preventive health screening raised big checks in 2026, but the money went to six companies
Headline funding numbers hide just how concentrated this category really is, and that matters for anyone benchmarking…
Tech & Tools
Needle-free glucose monitoring just had its best funding month in years, and the winning approach still isn’t clear
Biolinq raised $100M for a minimally invasive sensor. Nine other startups are racing toward a fully non-invasive one….
Surgical robotics raised $1.17B in two years, and almost all of it went to companies solving one specific problem
The deals getting funded aren’t generic robotic platforms. They’re systems targeting a defined procedure investors can…
Interoperability could save US healthcare $77.8B a year, and the technology to do it has been live for months
TEFCA is operational, information-blocking rules have teeth, and hundreds of billions in savings are sitting on the…
Treatment Areas
Respiratory drug funding just picked a fight with two different diseases at once
Two well funded 2026 launches are targeting COPD from opposite directions, one chasing inflammation, one chasing the…
A migraine drug startup just launched with $130M and a target no one else is using
Slate launched with $130M to go after PACAP, a migraine pathway that sits entirely outside the CGRP drugs already on…
Digital MSK’s second wave is competing on something other than convenience
The first generation of virtual physical therapy startups sold access. The startups gaining ground now are selling a…
Preventative Care
Prevention startups are starting to sell to employers, not just patients
A growing set of preventive health startups are building their entire go to market around employer sponsored coverage,…
WHOOP just joined a Medicare payment model, and the line between wellness wearable and medical device is getting harder to find
A $575M raise at a $10.1B valuation came with a new kind of validation: a spot in a ten-year CMS program built for…
Sleep tech just proved you don’t need a $10B valuation to be capital efficient
Eight Sleep hit free cash flow positive on a fraction of Oura and WHOOP’s total raise, and that’s a more interesting…
Care Delivery
Patient access startups are quietly becoming benefits infrastructure
The startups winning in patient access right now are not pitching patients anymore. They are pitching the employers…
A nurse showing up with a lab kit is now a funded business model
Sprinter Health just raised $32M to send full time nurses into people’s homes for blood draws and vitals, and the…
Hinge Health’s post-IPO playbook shows pure virtual care isn’t the end state for MSK startups
The biggest name in digital MSK just built a curated in-person network on top of its virtual platform, and that’s a…
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Parsley Health: The first functional medicine provider to go in-network nationwide
A tenfold jump from New York-and-California coverage to an estimated 150 million insured Americans shows what happens…
Maven Clinic: Turning an underfunded category into enterprise-grade benefits
The largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health, spanning fertility, maternity, and menopause, shows what it…
Function Health: Reframing lab testing as a consumer-owned baseline, not a reactive diagnosis
A membership giving consumers over 100 lab biomarkers a year, with a clear action plan attached, turns an annual…