Digital Health Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

CareMessage is the technology non-profit building the largest patient engagement platform for low-income populations in the United States. Powered by the Health Equity Engine™, the platform enables organizations to combine messaging, data, and interoperability to increase access to care, improve clinical outcomes, and address social drivers of health. With 20 million patients reached since 2013, CareMessage is the only patient engagement solution proven to improve health equity at scale. The team, many with lived experiences in these communities, leverages a nonprofit model to reinvest revenue into impact. CareMessage is the partner of choice for organizations committed to advancing health equity.

Memora Health helps healthcare organizations digitize and automate complex care workflows, making them simple for patients and clinicians to navigate. Memora ingests existing data on clinical workflows, converts them into cohesive messaging journeys that guide patients through their care episodes, and automates the completion of simple follow-up tasks in the EMR. Memora's platform reduces care team notifications by nearly 40%, has a >70 average NPS, and has improved clinical outcomes across various populations. Contact us at info@memorahealth.com

BrainKey is an AI-driven digital healthcare company with a mission to create a world free from dementia. The company specializes in developing advanced clinical technologies that empower longevity physicians to detect and prevent cognitive decline and other brain longevity challenges. By analyzing brain MRI and biomedical data, BrainKey provides highly accurate and personalized brain health insights, supporting physicians in delivering tailored care for brain longevity. BrainKey's AI-powered platform streamlines diagnostics and reporting, improving both clinical outcomes and financial efficiency across the continuum of brain health care. Short Clip about BrainKey from the BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioSgvROTP0E

We help healthcare companies run their practices. Eligibility, BI, claims, patient payments? Shoot us an email at founders@aperohealth.com Apero is a Y-Combinator-backed startup based in San Francisco bringing transparency and ease to medical billing. As one of the top startups from the Summer 2019 Y Combinator batch, we have raised from well-known investors including the creator of Gmail Paul Buchheit and the founders of Doctor on Demand, Gusto and Reddit, and serve startups that have raised over $1B in Venture Capital. The founding team are Stanford CS and Berkeley grads and include the CTO of Doctor on Demand having helped raised $240m and process millions of video calls. We are also hiring for engineers and product-minded operations people interested in giving price transparency to patients and providers. We serve practices nationwide, and integrate with leading EHRs as well.

Qventus’ mission is to simplify how healthcare operates so it just works — for everyone. The company offers an AI-based software platform that helps hospital teams make better operational decisions in real-time. Qventus addresses operational challenges across the hospital including emergency departments, perioperative areas, patient safety, in-patient, outpatient and pharmacy. Located in Silicon Valley, Qventus is honored to be working with leading public, academic and community hospitals across the United States. Founded in 2012, Qventus was named among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2018. The company has also been recognized as a leader and innovator in operational excellence, with the 2016 Fierce Innovations Award in Healthcare and Healthcare Informatics 2017 Innovator Award. For more information about Qventus, please visit www.qventus.com

Pair Team cares for the highest-need Medicaid recipients through a community-led, virtual care model. We take responsibility for the whole person by addressing not just clinical needs, but also health-related social needs such as housing instability and food access. We partner with local community-based organizations like shelters and safety net providers to coordinate care alongside our multidisciplinary care team to improve the wellbeing of underserved individuals and communities.

Quadrant Eye is on a mission to improve eyecare access and fight preventable blindness. We're building the next generation eye exam... inside the average American home. Our team wants to enable patients' best and most visually rich lives. To this end, we're looking for curious and nimble minds to help us develop the world's first fully online eye exam and ultimately deliver high-quality eyecare at scale. Some QE highlights: 🐝 We're a team of surgeons, scientists, venture partners, and hackers who mean business. 💸 Our backers include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and the creator of Google Image Search. 🍥 We're a mission-driven company tackling an eye health market worth $USD137B. 🌟 Our core focus is currently the development of patentable deep tech, and our overall vision is to change eyecare for good.

Vision Disease cause innumerable cases of preventable blindness globally - 415 million diabetic patients worldwide are susceptible to Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), Glaucoma, and more. Current screening protocols for vision disease require ophthalmologists to manually diagnose patients through visual assessment of the fundus. Given the large number of diabetes patients in various communities, this process is expensive, inefficient, and an undue burden on eye clinics.

Our mission is to improve quality of life for millions of people by providing easy, immediate access to the world’s best sleep care. Sleep Reset is a digital, personalized sleep clinic, available in a convenient mobile app for iOS and Android. Our program was designed in partnership with leading sleep experts from top sleep clinics and universities. The program improves sleep and reduces sleep anxiety with the most effective methods from sleep clinics, including strategies based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i) which are proven to be more effective than sleeping pills. Throughout our program, each member is paired with a dedicated sleep coach who personalizes their program. It’s a life-long, sustainable solution to sleep better in weeks, with no pills or melatonin needed – which means no grogginess, side effects, or dependency. Sleep Reset has been covered in Forbes, TechCrunch, and INSIDER. The company was founded by Yunha Kim, a serial entrepreneur recognized by Forbes as 30 Under 30 and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including YCombinator, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Stanford University and 20+ founders/executives of leading companies.

We are a service for people to learn about their personal environmental exposures. Our first product is a urine test for exposure to chemicals in everyday products.

Our mission is simple: challenge archaic rules and implied medical conventions in healthcare to better serve patients and physicians. Gradia is the backbone of the entire patient experience, helping patients get personalized, high-touch care while also making clinics more money. With our software patients can stay informed/educated about the status of their care, easily communicate with their providers, and get direct access to a specialized virtual care team. Our software is currently at several clinics across the Southeastern US and helping thousands of patients get the care they deserve. 

REPROSENT is a patient-driven care system that harnesses patients' time to relieve overburdened medical teams. With an app that elevates the role of both patients and their loved ones, REPROSENT helps patients stay on track, capture previously untapped data about their lived experience, and receive timely triage that improves their health outcomes. By making crucial patient information actionable, REPROSENT enables doctors to focus their time on personalized treatment, transforming the way medical care is provided.

Rinse is building the One Medical for dental. Beautiful studios, easy to book same day appointments, and anxiety-free care focused on prevention, not the upsell.

Mederva Health extends the doctor's clinic by providing medically-prescribed lifestyle interventions between visits. Our mobile app and care team help reduce risk factors for diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and strokes. We enhance patient outcomes, save time, and boost revenue at no added cost so doctors can provide better care for their patients.

Healthcare is delivered by teams – nurses, doctors, and staff, specific to each hospital, clinic, and department. They want to do their best, but cannot keep up with constantly changing information. Burnout >50%. Unprecedented turnover. Growing medical errors (the #3 cause of death in the US). $100B+ in waste. Elemeno Health is a UCSF and Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS for healthcare facilities– “a playbook in your pocket,” customized to support frontline teams with bite-sized training and communication at their fingertips, accessible 24/7 on any device. Our efficacy is demonstrated in our published results, passionate clients, and consistent renewals. 20x ROI. 75% decrease in medical errors.

Daybreak offers comprehensive and clinically-validated online mental health services designed for youth, like teletherapy, psychiatry and digital education. We partner with schools and pediatric groups to make access to services easy, and strive to deliver zero cost to the end consumer through insurance and government funding.

Healthcare needs good data. At PicnicHealth, we are building deep real-world datasets fueling cutting-edge research while giving patients control of their own medical record data. These complete, clinically-rich datasets produce unique insights — across dozens of diseases — to ultimately get the right treatments into patients’ hands faster. We work directly with patients and leverage state of the art machine learning to transform messy medical records into structured, research-ready datasets. To date we’ve helped tens of thousands of patients securely access their records and proactively contribute to advancing research in diseases that impacts their lives.

Meru Health is an online provider for greater mental health with remote clinicians (licensed therapists & psychiatrists), a smartphone-based treatment program, a biofeedback wearable and an anonymous peer-support group. Meru Health is committed to evidence-based care and has published groundbreaking clinical outcomes in several peer-reviewed medical journals with Harvard & UC Davis. Meru Health has offices in San Mateo CA, Denver CO and Helsinki, Finland.

Adoption of Telehealth 1.0 has dropped to <5% because it's inefficient and unintelligent. Ankr uses generative AI to recreate functions of clinic staff including front desk, medical assistants and scribe. This allows Doctors to "spin-up" virtual clinics on-demand, anytime, anywhere. An average clinic using Ankr generates $1M in new revenue/year. We integrate with all top EHRs and work with all types of clinics in mid- to large-sized healthcare organizations.

Blueberry Medical provides concierge pediatric care with at-home medical diagnostics and an always-available team of Pediatricians. Blueberry handles twice as may illnesses as any other telemedicine provider and has proven to reduce ER costs by 50%.

We’re on a mission to leverage AI and voice technology to solve inefficiencies and revenue leakage in our healthcare system. With the rise of EHRs, the manual documentation burden on doctors has never been higher, leading to burnout and fatigue and high attrition rates. Assigning the correct diagnosis and billing codes is crucial for proper reimbursement and patient care, but medical coding is becoming more and more complex each year with growing numbers of codes (over 145,000 now), and doctors are unsupported by current technology to keep up with its ever increasing requirements. $125 billion is left on the table each year by healthcare organizations due to improper documentation and coding. Knowtex creates visit notes with up-to-date and accurate reimbursement codes from doctor-patient conversations, allowing the doctor to focus on patient care and preventing revenue leakage for hospital systems through standardized, transparent, and accurate documentation.

Current Description: RTHM provides virtual-first care for complex illness including Long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS, and mast cell activation. Many clinics focus on teaching patients how to better cope with symptoms, which is helpful, but we don’t stop there. We develop collaborations & partnerships so our patients access to the most promising testing and root-cause directed early therapies for their illness(es) with the goal of simplifying and streamlining the most efficient and effective clinical pathways so they can be scaled in the form of low cost online modules overseen remotely by clinicians. In conjunction with clinical care, RTHM operates a clinical lab and collects deep molecular data with robust clinical context to develop AI-powered diagnostics and better ways of predicting which treatments may work best for whom.

Waiting rooms suck. Insurance and the paperwork are worse. We are a team of doctors, developers, lawyers, designers, and more working to try to fix it. Using our app, and soon the website, you can access medical care online right now and be done in 5 minutes. No insurance, video, or phone calls necessary and most visits are under $20. You can chat with your doctor anytime and anywhere. Our services are currently available in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington, but don't worry the rest of the country coming soon. Here are the medical services we offer so far: - Acne Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention - High Cholesterol (Lipid) Testing and Treatment - Start or Refill Birth Control - Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Testing and Treatment - Vitamin D Screening and Treatment - Pre-Diabetes Screening and Referral - Hepatitis C Screening and Referral - Female Condom Prescription - Help Quitting Smoking - Find Out Your Blood Type We are adding new services every week, so if you don't see what you need let us know. We want HeyDoctor and our partner health systems to be your first stop for healthcare and be your personal medical record.

We are a B2B medical device and data company passionate about providing remote monitoring solutions for the proactive care of chronic disease patients. Our core expertise and IP is in continuous respiratory sensing. Spire Remote Patient Monitoring is used by pulmonologists and patients throughout the United States. To date our sensors have been worn by more than 150,000 people.

Kip combines traditional in-person therapy with a private app so that you get the most out of every session. Meet your therapist in person and start working on your personalized care plan. Share daily thoughts, feelings, and events with your therapist on Kip's private app. Achieve measurable results with Kip's science-backed, results-driven approach. Not your average therapy service, Kip makes therapy more effective by combining in-person visits with digital support in-between.