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.

GoodRx Healthtech

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...

Headspace Wellness

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...

Axle Health Healthtech

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...

Cofertility Healthtech

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 ...

Cortigent Medtech

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...

Heal Healthtech

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...

Kernel Medtech

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 ...

Next Health Wellness

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...

Perelel Health Wellness

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...

Pictor Labs Healthtech

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...

Regard Healthtech

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...

SimplePractice Healthtech

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...

Everytable foodtech

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...

L-Nutra foodtech

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...

Modern Animal petcare

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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