Top Hospitals Startups in 2026

Needing to see a doctor is hard. Getting care shouldn't be. Luma's Patient Success Platform™ unifies and automates each of a patient's healthcare journeys -- access & operational, clinical, and financial -- to help them be healthier. It integrates with more than 80 EHRs to give staff and clinicians a fuller view of the patient with less manual outreach. With Luma, healthcare organizations see an average of 37% more referred patients in the first six months, and achieve a 39% average revenue increase.

ABOUT ARTERA Our Mission: Make healthcare #1 in customer service. What We Deliver: Artera (formerly WELL Health®) is the patient communication platform that delivers happier staff, healthier patients, and more profitable organizations. We enable two-way conversations between patients and their healthcare teams through secure, multilingual messaging across multiple channels – including text, email, and telephone. By unifying disjointed touchpoints into a single, intuitive channel, Artera fuels connected patient experiences and empowers organizations to deliver the best customer service imaginable. Our Impact: Artera helps 500+ healthcare providers facilitate more than 1 billion messages for 40+ million patients annually. Our award-winning culture: In 2021, Artera was named #10 on the Forbes list of America’s Best Startup Employers, as well as being named one of Deloitte’s Fast 500 (#133). Artera was also recognized as one of the Best Midsize Companies to Work for in Los Angeles by Built In in 2022, and has been ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for three consecutive years. All of our open roles can be found at artera.io/careers

Our mission: to eliminate every barrier to mental health. Spring Health is a comprehensive mental health benefit for employers. We help employees understand their mental health issues and connect with best-in-class providers to get the right treatment at the right time. From early detection to full recovery, Spring Health is the only clinically validated solution proven to be more effective than traditional mental healthcare. By combining the latest technology with vetted providers, we help engage 1 in 3 employees, reduce recovery times, and lower healthcare costs. We are an award-winning, passionate, and mission-driven team with the support of leaders in psychiatry, and have raised $30M to date from prominent VCs including Northzone, Rethink, Work-Bench, RRE, and General Catalyst.

Our solution: more resources, tools, and support for primary care providers. It takes a strong patient-physician relationship to deliver high-quality, efficient care. Our model fosters these relationships so patients and providers have a better experience, and the total cost of care is lowered - not from keeping patients away from care but by keeping them healthier.

VirtualHealth’s HELIOS solution is the first comprehensive care management platform purpose-built to power the entire ecosystem of value-based care. Utilized by some of the most innovative health plans in the country to manage millions of members, HELIOS streamlines person-centered care with intelligent case and disease management workflows, unmatched data integration, broad-spectrum collaboration, patient engagement, and configurable analytics and reporting. VirtualHealth empowers healthcare organizations to achieve enhanced outcomes while maximizing efficiency, improving transparency, and lowering costs. For more information, visit virtualhealth.com.

Kit Check is the leading provider of automated medication management solutions for hospital pharmacies. Our solutions blend powerful machine learning and advanced tracking technology to streamline medication inventory, workflow, auditing processes, drug diversion detection, and help hospital pharmacies cut costs, reduce risk, and get more done. To date, our more than 500 U.S. and Canadian hospital partners have tracked nearly 1000 million medications using the Kit Check and Bluesight for Controlled Substances software.

Vitalize Care is building AI-enabled software to optimize nurse staffing and scheduling for health systems. Our software uses predictive scheduling to proactively identify staffing gaps and adjust staffing in real time, ultimately reducing labor costs, saving nurse leaders significant time, and improving nurse retention. In less than a year, we’ve secured *millions* in contracted ARR from several health systems, and have raised $7M in seed funding from top investors including Y Combinator, our health system customers, and healthcare founders and executives at hospitals around the country.

Kipsu is a prominent, early-stage, software company with years of remarkable growth recognized for an exemplary culture whose pioneering messaging tools enable service industry partners to personally connect with their patrons through digital channels. Using real-time digital communication channels such as texting, internet chat, and social messaging, customer-focused companies leverage Kipsu to connect in-the-moment with anyone passing through their door, gaining insight, responding to questions, and addressing concerns in a familiar and frictionless way.

Tombot makes robotic animals that transform the daily life of individuals, families and communities facing health adversities. Originally designed to meet the specific medical needs of seniors with dementia, Tombot Puppies have also been preordered for children with Autism, adults with high impact chronic pain, major depressive disorder, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and PTSD, and for long inpatient stays and arduous outpatient treatments at hospitals. Peer-reviewed studies show that robotic animals positively affect some users’ ability to cope with stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression and pain, reducing their need for psychotropic and opioid medications. Key Milestones and Metrics: • Completion of our 5th generation prototype and 3rd round of customers studies with 100s of seniors with dementia • Over 3,900 preorder and waitlist customers • Member of StartX: Stanford-funded startup accelerator program • Member of the Canadian Creative Destruction Lab accelerator program • Member of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles accelerator program (CTIP) • Large-scale clinical trials in development with Children’s Hospital and the University of Southern California to demonstrate reduced stress, anxiety and pain for pediatric hospital inpatients • Large scale study in development with the LAC-USC Hospital Burn Unit to demonstrate reduced stress, anxiety, and pain for pediatric burn patients • Major national and international media coverage • Winner 2019 RoboBusiness Pitchfire competition • Filed multiple trademark, design and provisional utility patent applications • U.S. TAM: $9.0B (seniors with dementia plus mild cognitive impairment)

We pull, aggregate, and reconcile supplies data from dozens of sources so that data customers want is at their fingertips. To help them get to the data, we have what we consider a best-in-class search and data management experience, primarily driven by a cloud-based web app. When it comes to developing features for Symmetric, our philosophy is simple - everything is built around identifying opportunities for improvement. We believe that healthcare's supply chain is made better when data quality, software, and people are continuously improving. Our current offerings include: - A search tool for browsing our master database and finding the info they need - A virtual item master and master data management framework for users to upload, enrich, and research their supply data - A variety of reports that directly point users to their biggest savings opportunities More at symmetrichealthsolutions.com