StartUp Health NOW Podcast

StartUp Health NOW Podcast


Latest Episodes

Why Wingwomen Took the Leap from Virtual Support to Real-World Care for Reproductive Health
November 09, 2023

When Adonica Shaw founded Wingwomen, it was to address a very specific, personal need. Shaw had experienced a difficult pregnancy preeclampsia turned an otherwise healthy pregnancy into a medical em

Neolth Teams Up with NBA Star Kenny Thomas to Bring Mental Health Tools to Kids
November 02, 2023

According to some estimates, out of the HHS, nearly 50% of kids have experienced some kind of mental health challenge. And not just anxiety about an upcoming test or depression over a breakup, but per

These Founders Are Pairing AI + SDoH to Re-humanize Healthcare
October 26, 2023

Our episode this week was recorded during our StartUp Health Studio interviews at the recent HLTH conference in Las Vegas. At the event, a hot topic was how artificial intelligence, specifically gener

A Deep Dive with Jetsweat Founders: Bridging the Gap from Physical to Emotional Fitness
October 19, 2023

This weeks StartUp Health NOW podcast episode is a conversation with Health Transformers Alexandra Dantzig and Erin Frankel, the co-founders of Jetsweat. As you'll hear, their company started out as

Quantifying Mental Health: How Mobio Interactive Is Unleashing Precision Psychiatry at Scale
October 05, 2023

There's a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in business: You can't manage what you can't measure. It's a quote attributed to Peter Drucker, the famed management consultant. - If business leaders

Virtual Reality for Brain Health: Virtuleap’s New Platform Uses VR to Detect Cognitive Decline Early
September 28, 2023

Our StartUp Health NOW guest this week is Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO & Co-founder of Virtuleap, a brain health company that joined StartUp Health in 2019. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, and expanding t

How GO-Pen’s “Insulin Pen for All” Is Making High-Quality T1D Care Globally Accessible
September 22, 2023

Our StartUp Health NOW guest this week is Ole Kjerkegaard Nielsen, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of GO-Pen, a company in our Type 1 Diabetes Moonshot community. As you'll hear, Nielsen and his team based in D

10-Year Overnight Success: UnaliWear Tops Wirecutter List of Medical Alert Systems
September 14, 2023

Were back with a new season of the StartUp Health NOW podcast! This week were chatting with Richard Hirsch from UnaliWear. UnaliWear, under the guidance of CEO & Founder Jean Anne Booth, is a long-t

From the Archives: Naheed Kurji of Recursion Takes a Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery
August 30, 2023

For this StartUp Health NOW episode, we dive back into an interview we did with a long-time Health Transformer, Naheed Kurji. At the time of the interview, Naheed was the CEO, President & Co-founder o

From the Archives: Why Media Giant Jon Miller, Former CEO at AOL and IAC, Joined StartUp Health’s Board of Directors
August 24, 2023

As we gear up for the launch of the next season of this podcast, which will drop after Labor Day, we're bringing you replays of favorite episodes from the past. This week, we're featuring a conversati