Healthtech startups in Los Angeles
Digital health and care: GoodRx and Headspace, alongside UCLA-linked medtech and wellness founders.
15 companies building in Healthtech here.
Doug Hirsch, Trevor Bezdek, Scott Marlette (Co-founders)
Public (NASDAQ: GDRX) digital-health platform founded 2011 offering prescription-price transparency and discount coupons used by tens of millions of Americans. IPO'd 2020; expanded 2023–2025 into pharma manu...
Andy Puddicombe, Richard Pierson (Co-founders)
Consumer mental-health unicorn built on guided meditation and mindfulness. Merged 2021 with Ginger to form Headspace Health, a ~$3B behavioral-health company adding on-demand coaching, therapy and psychiatry...
founding team (YC-backed)
Y Combinator-backed digital-health startup (founded 2021) offering EHR-integrated workforce software for in-home care — AI scheduling, route optimization and automated patient engagement for home-health agen...
Lauren Makler, Arielle Spiegel, Halle Tecco (Co-founders)
Femtech fertility platform whose 'Split' program lets women freeze their eggs for free by donating half to families facing infertility, upending the ~$15k self-pay egg-freezing model. Raised a $7.25M Series ...
Jonathan Adams (CEO)
Neuro-implant medtech (successor to Second Sight, spun out of Vivani in 2023) developing the Orion cortical visual prosthesis to restore functional vision to the profoundly blind. Builds on the FDA-authorize...
Nick Desai, Dr. Renee Dua (Co-founders)
Digital-health company (founded 2014) that pioneered on-demand doctor house calls plus telemedicine, later focused on value-based in-home primary care for Medicare/Medicare Advantage seniors. Backed by Human...
Bryan Johnson (Founder)
Neurotech company founded 2016 by Bryan Johnson (Braintree/Venmo) building non-invasive brain-activity measurement helmets (Flow/Flux, TD-fNIRS). Raised ~$158M total incl. a $53M round; pivoted 2023–2025 to ...
Darshan Shah, Kevin Peake (Co-founders)
Longevity and health-optimization clinic chain (founded 2016) offering biomarker diagnostics, IV therapy, hormone optimization, cryotherapy and preventive membership programs. Pursuing an aggressive franchis...
Alex Taylor, Victoria Thain Gioia, Dr. Banafsheh Bayati (Co-founders)
Women's-health / femtech brand (founded 2020) making OB/GYN-formulated, stage-specific prenatal, postnatal and hormonal-cycle supplements. Raised a $6M Series A (Unilever Ventures, 2024) and a $27M growth ro...
Aydogan Ozcan, Yair Rivenson (UCLA founders)
UCLA Samueli spinout applying deep learning to 'virtual staining' of tissue biopsies — digitally rendering H&E and special stains without chemicals, speeding and preserving pathology samples. Raised a $30M S...
Eli Ben-Joseph, Nate Wilson (Co-founders)
Health-AI company (formerly HealthTensor) whose clinical 'co-pilot' auto-surfaces diagnoses and generates documentation from the EHR for hospital physicians. Raised a $15.3M Series A (2022) and a $61M Series...
Howard Spector (Co-founder/CEO)
Practice-management SaaS for solo and small behavioral-health, therapy and wellness practitioners — scheduling, telehealth, EHR notes, billing and an AI note-taker serving 200k+ clinicians. Grew largely boot...
LA-based mission-driven foodtech founded by Sam Polk selling affordable, healthy grab-and-go meals with variable pricing by neighborhood, plus a subscription/SmartFridge model and social-enterprise franchisi...
LA-based nutrition-technology company (founded by longevity researcher Valter Longo) behind the ProLon fasting-mimicking diet and clinical nutrition products targeting healthspan and metabolic health. Series...
LA-based membership veterinary company founded by Steven Eidelman operating tech-enabled vet clinics with 24/7 telemedicine, instant booking and an app; expanding across LA/Southern California and beyond. Se...
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