Top 25 HealthTech startups
At a time when a nation’s health is most important…
Healthcare technology startups have come to the forefront over the past year, and will continue to dominate public interest for several years to come.
They continue to push the boundaries of medicine and technology, so we decided to take an up to date look at who is doing what in the healthcare markets…
These amazing businesses all make the grade for our list of Top 25 healthtech startups…
Babylon Health
Babylon is a digital health service provider that combines AI technology with the medical expertise of real people. Individuals can access personalised health assessments, treatment advice, and face-to-face appointments with a doctor whenever they require. Using the Babylon app, patients can talk to a physician within minutes via phone or video call, or they can make simple health inquiries using the text service to monitor their health with the comprehensive tracking system.
BenevolentAI
BenevolentAI combines advanced AI and machine learning the newest scientific approaches to deciphering complex disease biology, generating original insights, and discovering more effective medicines. Benevolent AI’s unique computational R&D platform covers every step of the drug discovery process, powering an in-house pipeline of over 25 drug programmes from early discovery towards clinical phases.
Founded: 2013 — London, UK
Brent Gutekunst, Ivan Griffin, Ken Mulvany, Michael Brennan
Total funding: $292m
Birdie
Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home. Birdie aims to provide holistic and tailored preventive care for seniors to age confidently in their own homes. Birdie’s platform helps care providers plan, monitor, and assess patients digitally. Birdie also helps to reduce administrative costs and enables carer check-ins and medication-related notifications.
Founded: 2017 — London, UK
Abeed Mohamed, Gwen Le Calvez, Max Parmentier, Rajiv Tanna
Total funding: $22.6m
Cera
Cera designs professional home care services and an accompanying digital platform to offer transparent, consistent, and efficient care. Cera has pioneered machine learning, AI, and data analytics technologies to transform the healthcare sector by helping its users to live longer, healthier and better lives at home by supporting care workers and predicting changes in the health of users faster than traditional methods. Cera has grown rapidly to become one of the largest home care providers in the UK.
Founded: 2016 — London, UK
Mahiben Maruthappu, Marek Sacha, Martin Ocenas
Total funding: $90.8m
Current Health
Current Health helps to reduce health risks and high healthcare costs by monitoring, managing, and engaging patients at home through its remote monitoring platform. Patients wear wearable technology on their upper arm which tracks vital signs such as their respiration rate, pulse rate, body temperature, and movement. This data is then transformed into health insights.
Founded: 2015 — Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Christopher McCann, Stewart Whiting
Total funding: $91.9m
DoctorLink
DoctorLink was created to help individuals improve their experience with their GP and to help GP Practices to reduce their growing levels of demand. DoctorLink also uses a clinically certified Symptom Assessment tool and integrates with doctors’ Practices IT system to give tailored healthcare advice for what patients specifically require. DoctorLink also helps to book appointments with GPs or other NHS Services.
Echo
Echo is a free prescription management app that allows patients to order repeat prescriptions to their door. By telling Echo your prescription and your local GP, the app partners with NHS Digital to verify your information, and then delivers your prescription via first class Royal Mail, free of charge. The app will notify you when you are due to reorder and when to check in with your GP.
Founded: 2015 — London, UK
Sai Lakshmi, Stephen Bourke
Total funding: $11.5m
Flatiron Health
Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient and also to accelerate cancer research. Flatiron Health’s platform enables cancer researchers and care providers to learn from the experience of every patient. The company’s database platform transforms clinical and financial data from electronic medical records (EMRs) and billing systems that provide comprehensive support to cancer care providers and life science companies.
Health Hero
HealthHero is a digital healthcare provider aiming to offers remote access to experienced doctors and expert clinicians directly to patients, insurance-policy holders, and employees. HealthHero combines human experience and expertise with the best technology to provide exceptional remote health consultations.
Hinge Health
Hinge Health is a patient-centred digital clinic that treats chronic musculoskeletal conditions such as back and joint pain. Hinge Health’s platform has multiple functions including wearable sensors, an app, and health coaching to remotely deliver physical therapy and behavioural health.
Founded:
2015 — San Francisco, California, USA
Daniel Perez, Gabriel Mecklenburg
Total funding: $426.1m
Huma
Huma is a global HealthTech company that is providing a modular platform to support digital ‘hospitals at home’, covering multiple different disease areas. Huma’s platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to progress its predictive care and research goals. Huma uses digital biomarkers from patients in real life, using remote patient monitoring systems such as wearable technology. This then allows Huma’s partners to customise and commercialise digital health solutions.
LabGenius
LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company that is developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine. Its protein engineering platform integrates several technologies from the fields of machine learning, synthetic biology, and robotics.
Founded:
2012 — Oxford, UK
Harry Rickerby, James Field, Rhys Algar
Total funding: $28.7m
Web: https://labgeni.us
Lantum
Lantum is an online platform that enables healthcare providers to manage their clinical workforce efficiently. Clinics use Lantum to manage freelance physicians and scout new ones using Lantum’s marketplace of vetted, experienced physicians. Lantum also allows clinics to perform compliance checks on physicians, rate them and pay them fast.
Founded: 2012 — London, UK
Ishani Patel, Melissa Morris, William Hoyer Millar
Total funding: $13.8m
Web: https://lantum.com
Lightpoint Medical
Lightpoint Medical is a medical device company that develops intra-operative imaging technology to detect cancer during surgery. The company is developing a breakthrough intraoperative imaging technology called Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI). This ground-breaking technology has the potential to detect cancer in real-time during surgery, so doctors can proactively treat cancer.
Lumeon
Lumeon is a digital health company that has established the market for Care Pathway Management (CPM). Lumeon addresses the healthcare systems flaws and helps to improve all steps of the CPM from scheduling and revenue management to clinical reporting and aftercare. Lumeon boasts impressive customers in the healthcare provision field, including BUPA, Nuffield Health, Alliance Medical, HCA, Optegra, and Newmedica.
