StartUp Health NOW Podcast

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 ...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What does a family caregiver actually need – and what does that mean for the founders building solutions for them? In this expert conversation, Katie Brandt, director of caregiver support services at Massachusetts General Hospital's Frontal Temporal Di...

What does it take to keep a community hospital's doors open? According to StartUp Health community member Josh DeTillio, CEO of Access TeleCare, the answer often comes down to one thing: access to specialists. In this podcast episode, DeTillio joins St...

From menopause pioneer to commercial leader at one of digital health's most watched companies, Jill Angelo joins Unity Stoakes for a wide-ranging conversation on women's health innovation, outcomes validation, and the discipline of focus – with live qu...

What does it mean to build technology that serves human life rather than consuming it? In this episode, Esther Dyson, investor, thinker, and StartUp Health Impact Board member, joins co-founder Unity Stoakes and members of the StartUp Health community ...

For decades, the noninvasive continuous glucose monitor has been the holy grail of diabetes technology. SynchNeuro ( https://www.startuphealth.com/synchneuro ) believes the signal has been there all along -- hiding in the brain's electrical activity, r...