Top Tech Startups in Silicon Valley in 2024

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.

We are developing better humans at work and improving workplace culture. We do this by developing critical interpersonal skills that drive engagement, retention, and belonging (e.g., trust-building, communication, collaboration skills) at scale. Every year, companies lose $450 Billion to disengaged employees, despite spending over $26 Billion on interpersonal skills development. AwakeTeams is an AI-powered collaborative learning platform that develops high priority interpersonal skills for enterprise customers at scale. Proprietary monthly data reports track progress and trigger personalized learning paths. AwakeTeams customers include The White House President’s Management Agenda Team, Northwestern Mutual, and Nord-Lock Group, reporting up to +20% improvement in team performance, +30% in productivity, and +40% in constructive conflict. Founder is former Fortune 100 executive with expertise in neuroscience and behavior change Current team includes part-time software engineers, data scientists, PhD behavioral scientist, and world class facilitators.

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

Namefi tokenizes domain names for DeFi. Namefi is the world's first platform and protocol that tokenizes DNS domain names (like .com, .xyz) on Ethereum. As the pioneer in this space, Namefi has achieved several industry-first milestones: First to launch on Ethereum Mainnet and Base, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 network Pioneered innovative technologies like Namefi NFT, NamefiService Credit, AutoPark, AutoENS, and PrivacyMax (patent pending) Namefi was founded by Victor Zhou, one of the 7 EIP/ERC Editors of Ethereum, and a team with 30 years of ICANN experience. The platform has already tokenized over 500 domain names and has a thriving community of domain traders.

As Jimmy Buffett once said - 'we are the people your parents warned you about.' Just feel like getting a drink. Not sure whom to call or tired of the BS. Barfliz gives you options to invite your friends, source your network, hit the town and get discovered, and even roll out incognito. That's right. Never be a solo drinker again. Ever wanted to grab a drink, go to a bar, club, or dinner, and didn’t feel like going alone? Are you an avid traveler and find yourself solo at the airport, train, or transport bars? Have you ever found yourself in a new town for work or travel and wanted to see who was already out and about?

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.

Typeface is on a mission to help everyone express their unique imagination. We believe technology is a creative partner that empowers any company to tell their unique stories faster and easier than ever before. Generative AI platforms represent a major breakthrough to create content at tremendous speed and scale. For enterprises to successfully leverage their potential, they need to include their unique voice and style and ensure responsible AI practices. We unite content velocity with brand personalization and safety, so that every company can achieve its creative potential. We are looking for passionate individuals who want to help build a fast-growing GenAI company from the ground up.

Wise Assistant is the super-app turning social media influencers into freelance marketers with thriving businesses. We match those same marketers with agencies and their clients for campaigns that drive awareness and sales through social media and influencer collaborations. We've helped businesses launch new locations, expand into new markets, and promote new product lines! Our integrated suite of marketing tools helps marketers and agencies connect more efficiently, driving cost-effective revenue growth. Whether they're building sleek landing pages, accepting payments, or automating outreach, Wise Assistant is here to help. We’re a scrappy international, team that is insanely passionate about using tech to help the world live more freely and intentionally.

Luminary's technology platform enables wealth advisors to deliver generational gift and philanthropic giving solutions at scale. More than $100 billion in family and philanthropic giving capacity is created each year. But flaws in the current process impose over a billion in annual costs in order to access it. We are building the first product for wealth managers to automate the complex, and inefficient estate planning process.