Top Health and Wellness Startups in 2024

Maximus is a consumer telemedicine startup that optimizes men's health & hormones. Our King Protocol uses doctor-prescribed at-home labs, meds, & coaching to double your testosterone within 30 days. Maximus has raised $15M from top Silicon Valley VCs such as Founders Fund & 8VC as well as leading angel investors from companies like Bulletproof, Tinder, Coinbase, Daily Stoic, & Shopify. Maximus is led by CEO Dr. Cam Sepah, Clinical Psychologist/Professor who popularized 'dopamine fasting' worldwide & was Founding Medical Director of Omada Health, a unicorn that pioneered the field of digital therapeutics and helped 500,000 people lose 5 million lbs. Maximus will be a similar $5B unicorn within 5 years given that telemedicine is the fastest-growing and most recession-proof area of the economy. We’re looking for mission-driven evangelists who want to help a million men maximize their masculinity and build a values-driven company culture.

DirectShifts has set out to modernize healthcare recruiting. We're a team of physicians, entrepreneurs, and problem solvers who have come together to solve major pain points facing medical professionals today. We've built a healthcare staffing technology platform that connects healthcare professionals directly with employers by using advanced technologies and digitizing the recruitment and staffing processes. Using an AI-based platform, DirectShifts matches the right clinicians to the right jobs at healthcare employers. DirectShifts is headquartered in New York, NY and our team is spread across the US and India. Join us!

OneFit was founded in 2013 in The Netherlands by Serge Brabander and Camille Richardson. Two guys who liked going to the gym but got bored being signed up at the same place. They believed that workouts should adjust to the flexible schedules of modern city life and be more diverse, easy and fun.

At Koa Health, we believe in putting people (and their mental health) first. So we’ve made it our goal to leverage technology and research to enable people to change their behaviors with effective and accessible support that adapts to their unique circumstances. As breakthrough research offers new insights for elevating mental health, our team of researchers, clinicians, engineers and designers are transforming those insights into exceptional solutions designed to make balanced mental health more accessible for more people.

AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world. We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from our community of millions of registered hikers, mountain bikers and trail runners in 150 countries. AllTrails is frequently ranked as a top-5 Health and Fitness app and has been downloaded by over 40 million people worldwide. Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems so that we can get more people outside having healthy, authentic experiences and a deeper appreciation of the outdoors. Join us!

At Cleo, we make a real impact by doing work that matters: helping families be their best at home and at work. Cleo is a family benefits platform that picks up where the healthcare system leaves off. We combine the expertise of our team of guides and specialists – parent and maternity coaches, doulas, lactation consultants, sleep experts, and more! – with a powerful technology platform that helps every working parent succeed as they grow both their families and their careers. Offered by over 100 leading employers, including global Fortune 500 leaders and industry innovators like Box, Chegg, Niantic, and Zenefits, and backed by NEA, Greylock and Felicis, we’re expanding our offerings and our team to meet the growing demand of employers, parents, and the healthcare sector.

Peloton is the leading interactive fitness platform globally, with a passionate community of more than 7 million Members in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia. Peloton makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections that motivate its Members to commit to their fitness journeys. Consumers can access the Peloton library with thousands of live and on-demand classes at the gym, at home, on the road, or wherever they choose to move, through the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread, Peloton Bike+, Peloton Guide, and Peloton App on any iOS or Android device and select smart TVs. Through Peloton Corporate Wellness or Peloton Commercial, organizations and enterprises also have access to the Peloton platform and select Peloton products for their teams and customers. An innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform that seamlessly combines the best equipment, proprietary networked software, world-class streaming digital fitness and wellness content, and best-in-class fitness Instructors.

Ultrahuman helps you improve your diet and exercise based on biomarkers. The metabolic health crisis is unarguably one of the largest healthcare crises that exists today. Metabolic disorders contribute to almost 85% of all chronic diseases in the world. By helping people understand how food and exercise affects their metabolic health, people would be able to make informed choices about what they eat and their activity levels.

Imagine a mood tracker, mindfulness coach, anxiety helper, and mood-boosting buddy, all rolled into one. Used by more than 1 million people from more than 30 countries - and a top app recommended by the NHS UK - Wysa is one of the global leaders in this space. Wysa, your happiness buddy, is that friendly and caring chatbot. In addition, when things get too much, get access to digital self-help tools through your own personal library; or speak to a trained psychologist who is there to offer coaching support when you need help. Always there for you when you need someone to talk to, the Wysa platform helps you keep track of your mood with friendly chats and helps fight stress and anxiety with its proven chat-based self-help techniques and calming meditation and mindfulness audios. Checking in with Wysa regularly will improve your emotional health so you can track your happiness and mood.

The medical system is failing the 65% of adults in the US suffering from chronic disease. Now, people are returning to natural therapies to find lasting wellness and a new era of holistic healthcare is emerging. Heal.me was created to connect holistic seekers with certified practitioners and to support practitioners in growing their businesses. With both a marketplace and SaaS booking platform for practitioners, we're quickly becoming the primary platform for holistic care. More than 3,000 practitioners are offering services on the network today, and we've raised more than $2.8M from early investors in Calm, HeadSpace, Uber, and MindBody. We have the conviction that with better tech and education for both consumers and practitioners, holistic care will be recognized as a more effective and sustainable model of healthcare, and can revolutionize what we as a society deem 'primary medicine.'