Top Life Sciences Startups in 2024

Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense.

With Fella Health, patients meet a board-certified obesity doctor to prescribe FDA-approved medications, while they undertake personalized health coaching through our app. Obesity is the largest chronic disease in the US (>$100bn spent each year) and the traditional solution ("move more, eat less") only works long-term for ~10% of people. But obesity treatment is radically changing due to a new wave of medication options which are 2-3x more effective than previous options. In addition, only 10% of those using weight management services are men: all programs market to women, not tackling the stigma men feel around this. Fella's founders are Luke (linkedin.com/in/luke-harries) & Richie (linkedin.com/in/richard-cartwright). We studied together at Cambridge University. Luke studied medicine and developed a patented AI approach to detecting cancer at a YC bio company, before moving to Microsoft Research. He did a masters in Computer Science after Cambridge. Richie personally struggled with stress eating for 6 years. After Cambridge, he built and sold an AI company working with the UK government. He built a 10k-follower community around men's stress eating. You can read more about working at Fella here: fella.notion.site/Working-at-Fella-14a2ac8575d34d148d009bb410387af4 Fella Health is live in Texas, and we recently closed a Seed round to expand nationwide. We're backed by top health/consumer investors: - Y Combinator - BrandProject, Global Founders Capital - The founders of Indeed, Curative, Alan, Kaia Health, Not Boring, Vouch Insurance

More than a new kind of dialysis machine, Tablo is a new way of thinking about dialysis and the patients who depend on it. Tablo makes it possible to reconsider where dialysis is performed, when dialysis is performed and who can perform it. Tablo opens up opportunities for new in-center patient-powered care models designed to improve the experience while lowering costs for providers.

Rune Labs is a brain data company empowering the development and delivery of precision neuroscience therapeutics. Our company aims to fill the gap in software and data support for next-generation neuroscience therapeutics, and expand the benefits of precision medicine to the millions of patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Rune’s first-in-class precision brain data software *Platform* (runelabs.io/platform) integrates electrophysiology, brain imaging, and device data together with wearable data and clinical labels. The combination provides researchers, drug developers, and clinicians with the tools to guide treatment, uncover hidden disease phenotypes, and design better-targeted therapies.

50% of diabetes education programs are not profitable today. Lack of consistent referrals, confusion on billing processes, and resource constraints are the main drivers to why many diabetes education struggle. Palisaid's pEDIT is trying to make it easier for diabetes education programs to become financially successful, and manage the essential activities in one connected experience. pEDIT is a practice management solution that integrates within a clinic's EMR system. pEDIT is used by a diabetes educator during the entire patient visit, and guides the diabetes educator to the appropriate maximum reimbursement figure based upon the patients insurance status. pEDIT also makes it easy for a diabetes program to track program performance analytics essential for performance-based care initiatives, and compliance. Palisaid was founded by a patient living with diabetes, and team that all have been personally impacted by diabetes. We are taking a unique approach to our go-to-market focused on building a passionate team first to ensure we drive the best possible customer experience. Our current team brings over 50 years of diabetes education experience, EMR product development, and healthcare strategy with a proven advisory team supporting our growth. We are actively looking for capital to build pEDIT in order to pilot, and commercialize. If there is interest in learning more please reach out to [email protected].

Second Order Effects (SOE) is a California-based engineering firm specializing in custom electronics and end-to-end electronic system design. We develop cross-disciplined solutions and products to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems by optimizing solutions beyond the first order. SOE tackles a wide range of projects in the aerospace, automotive, industrial, and commercial sectors. We design and build flight control systems, wireless communication devices, power electronics, analog sensor interfaces, mixed-signal circuits, motor drivers, system controllers, video cameras, embedded computers, and optical and RF amplifiers, sensors, and antennas. Our designs have gone into rocket engines, satellites, self-driving cars, automated systems, and household/retail consumer electronics.

Ark is developing novel cultivated meat infrastructure to unlock cultivated meat production at scale. We develop massive bioreactors and advanced automation technologies (e.g., digital twins) to enable previously unimaginable scale at a fraction of the cost of legacy solutions.

At 4Catalyzer we strive to transform 21st century medicine by solving today’s most challenging problems – across life science research tools, medical devices and therapeutics. We aspire to create significant societal impact and are motivated by the idea that our products will change the lives of people we love. Fundamentally, we are focused on developing new types of sensors and pairing them with deep learning to get a window into biology and medicine that nobody has ever had before. We have audacious plans – but we have an unbeatable team and a founder that has disrupted biomedical science successfully more than once. If you have experience in image reconstruction, mixed-signal IC design, high-speed electronics, nanophotonics, microfabrication, MEMs, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, deep learning, cloud computing, embedded systems, or hold any dual degree with distinction along with computer science please contact us and “put a dent in the universe”.

Getlabs is the leading platform for at-home diagnostics. Healthcare organizations use Getlabs to send mobile phlebotomists to patients’ homes and collect labs, vitals, and advanced diagnostics. By leveraging Getlabs, partners can improve patient adherence and close gaps in care with same-day, nationwide availability. Our team has raised $50M from strategic investors including Labcorp, Quest, Healthworx, and more. Getlabs’ mission is to save lives by expanding access to diagnostics for everyone.