Top Medical Startups in 2026

Candid is redefining oral health by using modern technology to help deliver human-focused care. With a commitment to creating the best outcomes, Candid inspires confidence and promotes wellbeing. We believe that high-quality orthodontics should be affordable and accessible, and we’re pioneering an innovative approach to diagnosing, treating, and monitoring cases remotely. Our team is a group of startup veterans with experience across healthcare, hospitality, tech, and finance at companies such as Lyft, BCG, Airbnb, Blackstone, and Clover Health.

Doximity was founded in 2011 by the pioneers of mobile health apps to connect healthcare professionals and make them more productive. Joining Doximity means being part of an incredibly talented and humble team. We work on amazing products that over one million medical professionals, including over 70% of all U.S. doctors and 45% of all NPs and physician assistants, use to make their busy lives a little easier. Here at Doximity we absolutely love creating technology that has a real, meaningful impact on people’s lives.

Ginkgo Bioworks engineers organisms to address fundamental challenges the world is facing today. We aren't trying to study biology, we are trying to build it - constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house pipeline of technologies to design and build new organisms. First biotech in YCombinator: techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/sam-altman-on-his-inaugural-batch-of-companies-as-y…

At ProviderTrust, we are dedicated to helping our clients by providing a healthcare system that is not only safer for our clients, but smarter as well. We realize that by monitoring your healthcare system, we can ensure that all components of your healthcare system are in compliance and conforming to the credentials and established guidelines for a accredited and healthy relationship. Our mission is to identify any compliance issues before they can make a negative impact on our clients. At ProviderTrust, we recognize the importance of staying on top of risk management processes by building an exclusion Monitoring system that ensures that our client's healthcare system is operating as it should. Our simplified license verification system is in place to make sure that all licenses and credentials are verified, taking the stress of verification off of the client. At ProviserTrust, we also offer sanction screening services across all 50 states by using software to search and screen both federal and state agencies to identify sanctioned and excluded individuals and entities. This allows us to deliver reliable and comprehensive results that our clients can count on. To make things even more simple for our clients, ProviderTrust offers total compliance in one Dashboard. ProviderTrust is the modern, smart way to provide safer healthcare for our clients.

Omada Health is a virtual-first, integrated care provider. We combine the latest clinical protocols with breakthrough behavior science to make it possible for people with chronic conditions to achieve long-term improvements in their health. Working with over 1,600 enterprise customers – including Fortune 500 and small- and medium-sized employers, health plans, and health systems – Omada delivers personalized interventions for diabetes prevention and weight management, diabetes, hypertension, musculoskeletal issues and behavioral health. Our virtual care programs are clinically supported and evidence-based, and the results have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. We build programs that employees don’t just try, but stick with – resulting in reduced healthcare costs that deliver long term changes in health behavior and increased ROI. We're especially proud of the clinical results we deliver and the way we leverage technology to amplify and extend the influence of our real human care teams - from health coaches to clinical specialists. Omada has enrolled more than half a million members across all 50 states. Our partners include major employers across the country, including Costco and Iron Mountain, as well as leading health plans, such as Cigna and Kaiser.

As population continues to age, there is a growing demand for motor rehabilitation services. The problem is that the way we address this growth or rehabilitation services (physical therapy) has not changed in thirty years because we are still heavily reliant on a one-to-one patient therapist interaction which is costly, non scalable, and difficult to ensure consistent quality. At SWORD Health, we saw the opportunity to take a truly disruptive and transformative approach to this problem by creating the first digital therapy solution that addresses the growing demand for therapy while reducing costs, empowering patients with their recovery to ultimately recover faster, and providing a rich source of data for clinical teams and decision makers. Video: vimeo.com/118489111

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.

Elation offers a world-class clinical platform that clinicians love. Learn more at elationhealth.com, or if you're a clinician, explore a sample chart at elationhealth.com/sample-chart. While today's health IT market is full of clinician-facing tools that are optimized for compliance and administrative needs and distract from patient care, Elation has taken a different approach. With our unique clinical first philosophy, we've designed Elation to enhance the patient-physician relationship -- focusing on physicians, so they can focus on their patients. Clinicians and patients use Elation Health everyday to help patients live longer, healthier lives. Our team is deeply committed to improving the delivery of healthcare, and brings years of health IT, healthcare industry, product, and engineering experience to the challenge. We're hiring! Visit our jobs page at elationhealth.com/careers. We'd love to hear from you.

Alto is a telehealth pharmacy focused on helping people live healthier by making the prescription experience easier, more supportive, and more affordable. We’re transforming a $500 billion industry by reinventing what a pharmacy can do, for both patients and providers—from hand-delivering medications for free to offering on-call help by text or chat. Over one million deliveries, over a thousand five-star Yelp reviews, and an NPS score of +86 later, we’re proud to say we’ve built a pharmacy that people truly love.

Want to advance the frontiers of understanding? we develop innovative open source software platforms and integrate them into research, processes, and products. cmake, paraview, the visualization toolkit (vtk), and the insight segmentation and registration toolkit (itk) are among the platforms that complement our expertise in computer vision, data and analytics, high-performance computing and visualization, medical computing, and software process management. from meaningful work, to flexible hours, to collaboration, to a hardware budget, to tech lunches, to a clothing stipend, to family outings, there are many reasons to join us and make an impact.