Hi, I'm Jacob Flanders, President of Flybridge VI, a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences. I currently serve as the Vice President of Product for USRetina.
From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring thread to see what healthcare and life-sciences start ups are out there and what they are working on. Here are the companies from December 2021:
Linksight's mission is to make it possible to use sensitive data to solve real societal problems while protecting the confidentiality of this data. Examples include improving healthcare (effectiveness and efficiency). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29452801
Uncountable accelerates R&D for industrial scientists across leading materials, chemicals, and life sciences organizations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406024
Headspace Health focuses on helping people with mental health and wellbeing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406980
MEDCHART is on a mission to impact millions of people by unlocking access to their health data and making it accessible to the apps they use in their daily lives. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406428
Nuna builds data and analytics solutions that will help shift the US healthcare system to one based on value and quality. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29410737
Combinaut creates tools for healthcare organizations that help patients find care. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29410868
CareRev's mission is to seamlessly connect healthcare facilities and professionals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409000
The United States Digital Service is a team of cross-agency federal technologists who work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people, including helping veterans get benefits and modernizing health care. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29426708
Nobias is a new pharma startup using a variety of AI tools to speed drug development. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407410
Cedar is a health-tech and fintech company focused on reimagining how patients engage with the increasingly complicated and expensive healthcare system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408091
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406581
Sensorum Health is building an AI-powered sensor network to help seniors affected by chronic disease live healthy lives at home. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29434558
Genesis Therapeutics is developing novel deep learning and molecular simulation techniques to predict molecular properties and using them to accelerate the development of new medicines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406267
Truepill is a full cycle healthcare product that enables patients to virtually visit doctors, receive at-home tests and prescriptions, and monitor any medications or visits through our app. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430660
Ferrum Health builds AI-powered monitoring systems to help health systems detect and address medical errors before they affect patient care. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29432608
Invitae is a genetics company in the biotech space with a focus on medical diagnostics & genetic counseling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405805
Lightmatter is a team of designers, developers, and strategists who build software applications to help the world's most promising health companies improve the lives of their patients. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417430
10x Genomics is a biotech company that creates software, hardware, and chemistry to accelerate humanity's understanding of biology. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29410115
Bainbridge Health works with leading hospital pharmacies across the United States to translate data into actionable clinical and supply chain insights. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406551
Elation Health makes the "only Electronic Health Record system that physicians love" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29411638
Omada Health is on a mission to inspire and engage people in lifelong health, one step at a time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29412086
COMPASS Pathways is researching how psilocybin therapy could help people with treatment-resistant depression. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407868
NutriSense enables our users to find the perfect diet for their unique bodies by tracking key metabolic markers in real-time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420926
HealthVerity has built privacy protecting de-identification and data-linking software that has a huge impact by providing real-world insights into everyday issues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405111
Rekoo building a virtual clinic for stroke patients. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408118
Cohere Health builds software that is expressly designed to ensure the appropriate plan of care is understood and expeditiously approved. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409949
Innolitics is writing medical-device software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407635
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that is working on bringing high-quality and high-tech healthcare to everyone. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415248
Futronics builds the future of healthcare service robots. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408172
Grow Therapy is creating game-changing technology to build America’s biggest behavioral healthcare group and ensure that anyone can afford quality mental healthcare. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407998
Medsensio is are addressing the issues of cardiorespiratory diseases and chronic care management by using the opportunities within digital care by means of AI and healthcare technology. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405190
The Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) is the world’s largest public database of human genetic information and has been a pioneer in genomic data aggregation since 2013. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405592
1upHealth builds an analytics platform used in production around the US to provide novel population-level healthcare insights. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409226
VistaPath Biosystems is reinventing pathology by bringing automation and computer vision into the lab. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29410286
At BenchSci, our aim is to exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research by empowering scientists with advanced biomedical AI to run more successful experiments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407000
Lively empowers tens of millions of people to hear better through affordable, convenient, hearing care — at a fraction of the cost thanks to telemedicine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29418486
Zaya Care helps mothers afford full-spectrum maternity care by enabling previously out-of-network specialists to take insurance at rewarding terms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407920
Pumas-AI modernizes and improves the efficiency of predictive health analytics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29414498
FairStreet empowers the 55 million Americans 65 and older to make confident and well-informed health insurance choices. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29410384
Treatment Technologies & Insights develops custom software and mobile applications to help patients with high acuity or chronic conditions manage their treatment and generate insights on their personal experiences. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406232
Mindful Care is making mental healthcare more affordable and accessible by leveraging the latest technology. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407606
Maximus is a mission-driven consumer health company that provides men with content, community, and clinical support to optimize them in mind and body. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29412633
SoundLines is saving healthcare providers from burnout by building the first truly ambient documentation assistant on the market. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408796
Mendaera is an early-stage company focused on developing technology to enable all healthcare providers to perform precise and consistent point-of-care intervention. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420196
Maven Clinic is the leading women’s and family healthcare telemedicine company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406094
August Health is an early-stage company that builds technology to enhance quality of care for vulnerable older adults. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406706
MedSec is exclusively dedicated to the unique challenge of medical device and healthcare cybersecurity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409965
Aledade is a leader in population health that is using innovative, value based solutions to transform the way physicians interact with their patients. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408300
Curative is building a new vertically integrated healthcare platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406106
WELL Health is a SaaS digital health platform enabling digital conversations between patients and healthcare providers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409542
Curai runs a virtual primary care clinic and leverage machine learning to help our doctors work more quickly and effectively. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29422835
LUMICKS builds two instruments in life sciences, C-Trap and z-Movi. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415424
Recursion Pharmaceuticals apply machine learning to over 12 billion images of cells under a huge number of biological and chemical perturbations in order to find treatments for hundreds of diseases. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409321