Top Health and Wellness Startups in 2024

Bold's digital platform uses personalized exercise programs to address some of the most fundamental health and wellbeing challenges faced by older adults. Bold leverages research and data science to prevent falls, manage chronic conditions, and increase activity levels for older adults with clinically-effective and engaging exercise programs. Bold partners with health plans and providers to improve member outcomes and reduce care costs.

Thrive causemetics was born out of a friendship. makeup artist and product developer, karissa bodnar, lost her dear friend kristy to cancer at just 24 years old. kristy’s compassionate and vivacious spirit inspired karissa to create a company, a beauty brand and philosophy that goes beyond skin deep by empowering women. for every product you purchase, we donate to help a woman thrive. we believe changing the world starts with a single ingredient, and that’s why we create vegan, 100% cruelty-free formulas containing proven ingredients without the use of parabens or sulfates. all of our high-performance cosmetics are developed at our lab in los angeles.with over a decade of experience as a makeup artist, beauty product designer, and formulator, karissa has traveled the world sourcing powerful ingredients to create clean formulas with skin-loving properties.

Staffing shortages are the #1 problem for health systems. Over the last 3 years, labor spend has increased > 260% but revenues aren’t keeping up. Optimizing existing labor resources and filling staffing gaps efficiently is a must for every health system, but current staffing and scheduling processes are broken and antiquated. Nursing leaders are spending 50% of their time on manual scheduling tasks, while staffing decisions typically come down to a combination of phone-tag and guesswork. Vitalize Care’s software enables health systems to optimize their labor resources and staff to real-time patient demand. We project saving each hospital customers > $2.5M in labor costs annually, while saving their frontline managers 2 - 3 hours/day in manual work by automating scheduling tasks. We’ve already closed multiple 6-figure contracts with top health systems and have begun our first enterprise hospital implementation. We’ve raised $3.8M from Y-Combinator, Rebel Fund, Liquid2 Ventures, and healthcare angels including the CTO of Redox, CEO of Flexpa, CEO CareRev, and executives at top health systems.

AnswersNow connects parents and caregivers of children with autism directly to an expert via private text and video. Your personal AnswersNow clinician is there to provide constant and consistent support while most importantly, enabling you to feel confident in the daily interactions with your child. Get answers to your question by a certified expert whenever, wherever.

It’s estimated that nearly 1 in 10 people will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime, affecting people of every age, race, size, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and background —yet 80-90% will not get the care they deserve. Arise exists to change that, connecting people to inclusive, personalized support for disordered eating, eating disorders, and long-term healing — virtually, safely, and on their terms. With its identity-centered, personal, and affirming approach to care, Arise aims to shatter the stereotype of what eating disorders “look like” and break down barriers and stigma to bring people care that works for them. Through virtual treatment pathways, community, and ongoing support, Arise brings people the right care where they are. Founded by and for people who are on their own healing journeys from eating disorders, Arise is empowering effective support for people to heal their body and mind.

Well is a new, rewarding way to achieve better health. We’re built to engage, educate, motivate, and empower all — while personalizing the Well experience for each unique member. On the job and at home, everything just works better when we feel well. Access to Well helps employees and their families navigate health and take good care in a way that’s easy, rewarding, and fun.

Our mission is to equip everyone with authentic and personalized fitness training. At the heart of this mission is the workout recommendation system, which combines advanced ML with the users' exercise and workout history to personalize their next workout. Fitbod’s training algorithm understands your strength-training ability, studies your past workouts, and adapts to your available gym equipment.

Wonder Sciences has created an end-to-end solution that is transforming mental healthcare: Wondermed, a SaaS Platform that Provides Access to Novel Mental Healthcare to Providers for their Patients. - Provider platform: empowers physicians, therapists, and clinics with cutting-edge tools for comprehensive mental healthcare. - Patients platform: provides unmatched mental healthcare and tailored tools for every individual patient. Their research arm drives forward clinical research through scientific studies and AI data analyses, building evidence-based psychedelic protocols optimized for mental health.

The first automatic exercise tracker, using the power of artificial intelligence and wearables to automatically track your entire workout at the gym, hands free!

Nappr is a marketplace that offers flexible 4 to 10-hour hotel stays for a fraction of the cost of typical overnight rates - and with all the amenities included. We've got over 1,000 properties spanning 28 countries from brands like Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Sheraton and we're located in many major metro areas and airports. This helps busy on-the-go professionals catch up on rest and meet the demands of their unique schedules, and it also gives hotels the ability to fill their unused capacity and generate extra revenue with convenient, hourly scheduling.