StartUp Health adds 6 new companies

StartUp Health

StartUp Health has grown to 90 companies, having added 6 new startups to its roster.

“At StartUp Health, collaboration is the magic ingredient that powers our network,” said Unity Stoakes, co-founder of StartUp Health. “This new group of Healthcare Transformers represents the global nature of innovation in healthcare and we are thrilled to be bringing this diverse group of entrepreneurs from around the globe into our community.”

New StartUp Health companies include:

AlemHealth – Integrated Telemedicine for Developing Countries
(Location: Dubai, UAE; Subsector: Telemedicine)
The company is trying to solve the pressing healthcare problems of access to quality diagnostic care and skyrocketing healthcare costs. For patients in developing countries, AlemHealth offers an integrated telemedicine solution that links hospitals to a global provider network, at a price patients can afford.

Gritness – Search Engine for Group Fitness
(Location: Austin, TX; Subsector: Wellness)
With a combined 30+ years of experience in the enterprise software and infrastructure space, co-founders Tommy Fad and Jason Whitson have built Gritness, which is a search engine that empowers consumers and businesses to discover, create and engage with local group fitness options.

Healarium – Digital Care Plans to Help Patients Follow Daily Regimens
(Location: Tel Aviv, Israel and Birmingham, Alabama; Subsector: Patient Engagement)
As the demand for smarter population health management continues to grow, the company provides consumers with daily regimens for self management. Over 25,000 patients have completed prescribed care plans on the Healarium platform.

iDx Ventures “ClariFlow” – Helping Detect BPH at Home
(Subsector: Diagnostics; Location: New York, NY)
After 10 years of R&D culminating in successful clinical trials at four international hospitals, iDx Ventures is launching ClariFlow, an affordable, single-use home test to detect enlarged prostate issues like BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia), which impacts 50% of men over 50.

Mouthwatch – Visually Connecting Dental Patients to Better Care
(Subsector: Patient Engagement; Location: New York, NY)
With backgrounds in dentistry, serial entrepreneurship and communications, the Mouthwatch has pioneered the integration of digital imagery and communications technology in dentistry — bringing us one step closer to teledentistry through an innovative intraoral camera and communication platform.

NuPlanit – Healing Relationships with Food through Real-time Support
(Subsector: Nutrition; Location: Boston, MA)
Co-founders Alaina Hanlon Adams, PhD and Robert Jahreis are on a mission to heal our relationship with food. NuPlanit is bringing the power of technology plus nutrition experts to provide a real-time behavior support platform for daily food decisions.

StartUp Health supports nearly 200 entrepreneurs from companies in 8 countries and more than 45 cities. These companies are solving some of healthcare’s most critical problems through new technology and innovative business models, from telemedicine and patient engagement to wellness, nutrition and diagnostics.