Top Healthcare Startups in California, US

We all depend on healthcare throughout our lifetimes, for ourselves, and our families and friends, but it is notoriously difficult to navigate and understand. As an industry that comprises 20% of the US economy we think healthcare should work better for all of us. At Steer Health we believe it’s time for a new day in healthcare where as healthcare consumers we are informed and empowered to make the right care choices when the decisions are urgent and critical. Our All-in-One growth platform offers a user-friendly healthcare telemedicine enterprise that empowers healthcare providers to deliver personalized patient care in real-time resulting in new practice revenues, enhanced staff efficiencies, and higher levels of patient satisfaction.

Medical bills are a huge problem. They are confusing, 40% of them contain errors, 17% of them are denied by insurances, and can represent very large sums of money. As a result, 100 million people are saddled with healthcare debt, and medical bills cause nearly 70% of personal bankruptcies. Identifying and resolving medical billing issues is time-consuming, complex and very stressful. Stuck between their providers, payers and bill collectors, consumers have to make numerous phone calls, send letters and faxes, and fill out complex forms. This article from ProPublica explains the complexity of insurance appeals, and this does not even touch on resolving billing errors or negotiating bills. Thanks to AI and new healthcare regulations around data access and price transparency, we are now able to automate this grunt work and empower consumers to fight back this broken system. While our initial focus is on helping people once they’ve received a bill, we are committed to helping people through their entire healthcare journey as they look for care or choose insurance plans. wellfound.com/blog/from-the-founder-or-julien-nakache-founder-of-medbill-ai

Bunkerhill Health is a Sequoia-backed company on a mission to facilitate and streamline the AI development efforts of academic researchers and to increase the adoption of AI in healthcare in order to help doctors catch deadly diseases earlier. We have built a consortium of research institutions (Stanford, Johns Hopkins, UCSF, Harvard, etc.) whose researchers develop and validate AI algorithms seamlessly under our legal umbrella (weeks of setup time for a new project when using the Bunkerhill consortium, versus a year or more for projects outside the consortium). Bunkerhill then manages the FDA clearance and commercial sales process for the algorithms that these institutions develop and validate through the consortium. We’ve signed commercial contracts and deployed algorithms with some of the world’s leading health systems — UCSF, Mayo Clinic, Georgetown/MedStar, and several others. These algorithms help doctors identify patients earlier than has otherwise been possible, leading to better treatment outcomes (early clinical screening for heart disease, pancreatic cancer, etc.). We’re backed by world-class investors, including Sequoia, Felicis, SVAngel, Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal and Affirm), and Y Combinator.

Thrive market is an ecommerce marketplace delivering responsible, top-quality consumer products nationwide. our marketplace operates using a membership-based model. the $60 annual fee unlocks access to a strictly vetted lineup of every kind of household essential—from fair trade coffee to organic toothpaste—at member-only prices. the membership fee coupled with thrive market’s purely online presence allows for control over the supply chain and prices, which means members get the products they value at an actual value. thrive market is an online, membership-based market making the highest quality, healthy and sustainable products available for every budget, lifestyle, and geography.

Tia builds products, tools, and services designed to help every woman be her own patient advocate and get meaningfully better care. Since launch, Tia has had more than 200,000 1:1 conversations with women about their health through the Tia app, giving them a front row seat to everything that is working and not working in women’s healthcare today. Now, the Tia Clinic is the latest product in the Tia ecosystem that pairs equal parts sass-and-science brand, technology and community with real world healthcare services to create an inclusive, personalized, and compassionate experience that sets a new standard for women’s health.

The leading fitness platform that is creating a whole new industry for FitPros and gyms. We are rapidly growing our users and team. We are backed by top Silicon Valley VCs, early investors in Twitch, YouTube, PayPal, Instagram, Google, and Facebook and leading consumer/marketplace investors. We are looking for amazing people to help take this rocket ship to Mars and beyond. If you want something fast-paced, growing rapidly, and posed to change the world...then hop on and buckle up! recess.tv

At Path we believe behavioral health should be treated with the same respect, right, and focus of other chronic diseases. We’re building the future of mental health, and in 20 years we’ll look back and be astounded that we ever treated the physical before the mental. Over 65 million Americans suffer from a treatable mental health issue - that’s 1 out of every 5 people. Today it’s difficult to find a provider, and for those with complicated conditions, it’s nearly impossible to find coordinated care. We’re here to fix this. Path is at the intersection of tech + mental health with thousands of therapists, psychiatrists, and other mental health services delivering care through a virtual first approach. Our platform matches patients with exactly the right person for their needs, whether it’s experience with a certain condition, gender, race, location, life experience, etc. Our Team Path is a respectful, upbeat, and remote-first team united by our mission of simplifying behavioral healthcare services. We want our employees to be themselves and celebrate each other's differences. We trust our employees to do what’s best for patients and our fellow team-members without bureaucracy. We prioritize self care and are building a sustainable business for the long term. As Part Of Our Team, You'll Receive - The ability to work from wherever you want within the US - Competitive pay and benefits that don't change based on your location - Unlimited paid time off and 2 company-wide shutdown weeks each year to focus on self-care - Paid parental leave to support you and your family - Medical, dental, and vision insurance through our employer plan - Access to an Employer Assistance Plan (EAP) through our insurance plan - The equipment you need to ensure your home office sets you up for success

SmithRx is a next-generation pharmacy benefit partner built on a modern technology platform that creates new levels of flexibility, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. It’s a new path forward that aligns incentives and harnesses data analytics to deliver an exceptional pharmacy benefit product. A San Francisco based technology company, SmithRx was founded in 2016 to create a cost-competitive PBM that offers clients a proven pass-through model, a single platform technology, concierge level service, and strong drug cost, rebate, and service level guarantees. The 100% in-house team brings together experience from healthcare companies including Anthem and Safeway Pharmacy along with Silicon Valley technology leaders. Front-line clinicians guide plan execution and member support. Find out more at smithrx.com

Miro Health is a leading provider of brain healthcare services. The Miro Health Mobile Platform automatically diagnoses, prescribes treatment, and remotely monitors brain conditions. Miro Health’s seamless integration of psychiatric, neurologic, and cognitive specialities drives high-quality clinical results for individuals and populations. Miro Health Mobile Assessments are self-administered by patients through their mobile devices to increase efficiency, expand capacity, and scale reach. Miro Health partners with primary care organizations, ACOs, and health systems to provide data-driven services that elevate the patient experience, improve quality and consistency, and lower the costs of care.

Ambience is building a suite of software tools for healthcare providers (doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants etc.) with the mission of giving them AI superpowers. Our technology combines a unique blend of machine learning research and deep medical expertise to ambiently support providers as they care for their patients. The most painful part of a provider’s day consists of hours of late-night administrative work, writing detailed documentation in the medical record for each of their visits. We’re starting to see the consequences of this widespread documentation burden: providers are burning out and resigning from their careers in medicine at record rates. Until now, healthcare systems have been unable to find a solution that was both effective and affordable. Ambience's flagship product, Ambience AutoScribe, is a fully automated AI medical scribe that captures the nuances of provider-patient conversation in real-time into a comprehensive note, so providers can focus on what matters most: caring for patients. Today, the product is used by providers every single day for every single one of their visits, even in some of the most challenging medical specialties (e.g. psychiatry and complex geriatric primary care). For the first time in years, our providers are able to get home on time for dinner and don’t need to spend hours late at night catching up on their charts. At Ambience, you’ll be working alongside an exceptional team of A-players who are humble, curious, and deeply aligned with the core mission of improving the lives of providers and their patients. We’ve raised $30MM in total funding to-date and we’re fortunate to be working with some incredible partners like Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI. We’re actively growing the team across marketing, sales, product, engineering, clinical, and customer success functions. To apply, please reach out to [email protected] - we'd love to hear from you!