Top Digital Health Startups in 2024

We improve care plan compliance for people living with chronic disease by using incentive strategies from behavioral economics, saving our healthcare system billions.

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

Iterative Health is pioneering the use of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine in gastroenterology (GI), with the aim of helping to optimize clinical trials investigating treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We use advanced machine learning and computer vision to interpret endoscopic images along with other types of data, helping clinicians to better assess patients with potential GI problems. This gives practitioners enhanced capabilities in the detection, annotation, disease scoring and treatment of GI related diseases. Iterative Health is initially applying these advances towards standardizing disease severity characterization for inflammatory bowel disease. Ultimately, the company aims to establish more meaningful endpoints to serve as better predictors of both therapeutic response and disease outcomes. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Elaborate is moving a million miles a minute in our mission to redesign the experience of receiving your health data. Funded by some of the most iconic investors and entrepreneurs, we are building software that acts as an intermediary between doctors and their patients. We integrate with doctors’ EMRs and analyze patient data with our proprietary clinical insights engine, providing a guided, innovative health experience unlike anything seen before in the market. Elaborate was founded by a health-tech executive with early / founding experience at both Oscar and Parsley Health, with teammates and investors from fast-growing, successful health and consumer businesses including Pillpack, GoodRx, Behance, Flatiron School, Advantia Health, and Greenhouse.

Garner helps users search for the best quality providers in any specialty. We offer our solution through employers who want to give their employees a better quality healthcare experience and in-turn save on the cost of healthcare because the best doctors end up costing the least money.

Virgo makes it easy for physicians to record, manage, and access their endoscopy videos in the cloud. This enables physicians to use videos for research, training, quality improvement initiatives, and patient education. The Virgo platform also enables partners, including leading global pharmaceutical companies and Academic Medical Centers, to seamlessly identify, qualify and recruit the right patients to into clinical trials. Since launching in May 2018, the 100,000+ procedure videos we’ve capture — the largest data set of its kind — are powering industry-leading advancement of AL / ML in Gastrointestinal medicine.

Helix is a growth stage company focused on personal genomics. Helix has a simple but powerful mission: to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We’re creating an ecosystem where people can explore diverse and uniquely personalized applications provided by high-quality partners. Helix handles sample collection, DNA sequencing, and secure data storage so that our partners can develop on-demand products in areas such as health, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, genealogy, and inherited traits. Helix is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and operates one of the world’s largest next-generation sequencing laboratories in San Diego. You can learn more at helix.com or follow @my_helix.

Koda Health is a fast-growing digital health startup that leverages AI to help guide difficult conversations in healthcare, starting with end-of-life care planning. Our platform helps patients express and document their medical care preferences - ensuring patients receive the care they want and curbing the financial burden in the last years of life. Koda Health is a graduate of multiple prestigious startup development programs including TMC Biodesign, Techstars UnitedHealthcare Accelerator, and Lighthouse Labs. As a venture-backed company, Koda Health is committed to enhancing quality, cost, and access to care and to improving the experience for all our stakeholders to make health care work better for everyone.

Our technology solution helps doctors identify patients with mental health conditions and comorbidities, easily refer them to a trusted network of mental health providers and resources, and ensures that patients are matched to appropriate care. We use data to systematically understand and improve care

Mantra Health is a digital mental health clinic on a mission to improve access to evidence-based mental healthcare for young adults. Through augmenting high quality clinical services with software and design, we're on a mission to improve the mental health of over 20 million university and college students through partnerships with higher education institutions and health insurance plans.