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 January 2024:
Spill makes counseling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible by selling a mental health support product to businesses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845693
Opvia wants to be the software layer for regulated manufacturing companies. Regulated industries such as Pharma and biotech. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853064
Parexel provides a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845105
Cleary.ai uses AI to make regulatory approval for medical innovation 10x easier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38852166
SmarterDx uses AI to improve hospital revenue cycle. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844723
SHINE prompts people to take their HIV medication and, by doing so, zero their ability to spread HIV, effectively ending the epidemic before moving to many other diseases and extending millions, maybe billions, of lives. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855992
Juniper built an end-to-end insurance billing system for recurring care, starting with Autism clinics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848644
Complete Sleep is a VC-backed, seed-stage company that is changing the way sleep apnea is tested, diagnosed, and treated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847574
Inceptive is creating tools to develop increasingly powerful biological software for the rational design of novel, broadly accessible medicines and biotechnologies previously out of reach. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845561
The St. Jude Cloud project is hiring Rust software engineers to rebuild the genomics ecosystem in Rust. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847627
Medbill AI is building an AI assistant that helps people with medical billing and health insurance issues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850457
Flexpa connects applications to health insurance data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847664
Intuitive designs, develops, and manufactures robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery, most notably the da Vinci Surgical System. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38843670
Handl Health is building the next generation of health insurance for employers by making healthcare costs transparent. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848642
eCellula is an early-stage, remote-first Life Science services company working with biotech, pharma and related customers worldwide. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845930
Notable uses intelligent automation to eliminate the massive administrative burden that threatens the future of healthcare. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847487
Nuna’s technology platform, our software apps, our vision, and our exceptionally talented team are collectively accelerating the healthcare system’s ability to make value-based care available to everyone. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38846159