Healthtech & biotech startups in New York

** NYC mental-health startup — a membership network + practice-management software for therapists — that raised $130M (Cigna/Optum-backed) to expand; ~$230M+ total. Later acquired by Spring Health. Notable N...

a membership network + practice-management software for therapists — that raised $130M (Cigna/Optum-backed) to expand; ~$230M+ total. Later acquired by Spring Health. Notable NYC behavioral-health platform. - **link:** https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/mental-health-startup-alma-raises-130m-expand-platform/ - **vertical:** ["healthtech", "mental health", "marketplace"] - **stage:** acquired (by Spring Health) ### sw-14 -

NYC mental-health startup — a membership network + practice-management software for therapists — that raised $130M (Cigna/Optum-backed) to expand; ~$230M+ total. Later acquired by Spring Health. Notable NYC ...

Chris Altchek & Kareem Zaki

Founded in 2020, Cadence is a remote patient monitoring and virtual care-delivery company that partners with health systems to manage chronic conditions (hypertension, diabetes, heart failure) via connected ...

AJ Loiacono & Ryan Kelly

Founded in 2017, Capital Rx is a full-service pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) built on its Judi enterprise health platform and a transparent, NADAC-based drug-pricing model. Now expanding under the Judi Healt...

Eric Kinariwala

Founded in 2015, Capsule is a technology-driven digital pharmacy rebuilding the prescription experience with same-day hand delivery and a consumer-first design, born from the founder's frustration filling a ...

Florian Otto, Arel Lidow & Kareem Zaki

Founded in 2016, Cedar is a patient financial-engagement and payments platform for hospitals, health systems and medical groups that modernizes the medical billing experience. It has raised ~$350M+ and reach...

** NYC value-based-care company delivering community-based, in-home virtual care to Medicaid/underserved populations via insurer/provider partnerships. Has raised ~$900M across 6 rounds. Major NYC health-equ...

NYC value-based-care company delivering community-based, in-home virtual care to Medicaid/underserved populations via insurer/provider partnerships. Has raised ~$900M across 6 rounds. Major NYC health-equity...

** NYC B2B software for senior/residential care operators; raised a $30M round in 2025. Vertical-SaaS play in eldercare/healthcare operations.

NYC B2B software for senior/residential care operators; raised a $30M round in 2025. Vertical-SaaS play in eldercare/healthcare operations. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-development/new-york-te...

Nat Turner & Zach Weinberg

Founded in 2012, Flatiron is an oncology-focused health-IT company that aggregates and structures real-world clinical data from EHRs to power cancer research and its OncoEMR software used across hundreds of ...

Noam Solomon & Luis Voloch

Founded in 2018, Immunai combines single-cell biology and machine learning to map the human immune system and accelerate immunotherapy and drug development, having built one of the largest proprietary clinic...

Allon Bloch, Ran Shaul, Israel Roth & Adam Singolda

Founded in 2016, K Health is a clinical-AI company delivering virtual primary care by comparing a patient's symptoms against a large de-identified clinical dataset, deployed through health-system partnership...

Charles Zuker, Tom Maniatis & Richard Axel

Founded in 2015 by Columbia neuroscientists (including Nobel laureate Richard Axel), Kallyope is a biotech decoding the gut-brain axis to develop oral therapeutics for metabolic, GI and CNS diseases. It laun...

Gina Bartasi, Annbeth Eschbach & Dr. Angeline Beltsos

Founded in 2018, Kindbody is a vertically integrated fertility and family-building company operating its own clinics and selling fertility benefits to employers, opening its NYC flagship in Flatiron in 2019....

Kate Ryder

Founded in 2014, Maven is the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, spanning fertility, maternity, menopause and pediatrics. It became femtech's first unicorn and later raised a $90M Series E...

Alexi Nazem, Kevin Ryan, Ryan Grant, Maxwell Laurans & Zander Pease

Founded in 2015, Nomad Health is an online marketplace that directly connects nurses and clinicians with healthcare facilities for travel and per-diem jobs, removing third-party staffing agencies. It scaled ...

Zack Gray & Mattan Griffel

Founded in 2019 (Y Combinator-backed), Ophelia provides telehealth medication-assisted treatment (Suboxone/buprenorphine) for opioid use disorder, replacing traditional rehab with at-home, insurance-covered ...

Josh Kushner, Mario Schlosser & Kevin Nazemi

Founded 2012 in NYC by three HBS classmates. Technology-first health-insurance company built around telemedicine, transparent pricing and a consumer-friendly app; a leading ACA-marketplace insurer that also ...

Thomas Fuchs, David Klimstra & Leo Grady

Founded in 2017 as a spinout of Memorial Sloan Kettering, Paige (Pathology AI Guidance Engine) builds AI for digital pathology and cancer diagnosis, trained on MSK's licensed slide archive. It earned the FDA...

David Schlanger, Gina Bartasi (early) (CEO Peter Anevski)

Progyny is a fertility and family-building benefits manager sold to employers, offering a curated clinic network and member support. In 2019 it became the first fertility-benefits company to go public (Nasda...

Zachariah Reitano, Saman Rahmanian & Rob Schutz

Launched in 2017 as 'Roman,' Ro is a direct-to-consumer telehealth company that diagnoses, prescribes and delivers treatment and ongoing care across men's health, women's health, weight management (GLP-1s) a...

Richard Friesner (CEO Ramy Farid)

Founded in 1990 by Columbia chemist Richard Friesner, Schrödinger builds physics-based computational software for molecular modeling and now runs its own AI-plus-physics drug-discovery pipeline and partnersh...

April Koh, Adam Chekroud & Abhishek Chandra

Founded in 2016 by Yale researchers, Spring Health is an AI-powered mental health platform for employers that matches members to coaching, therapy and psychiatry via its Precision Mental Healthcare engine. I...

Oren Frank & Roni Frank

Founded in 2012, Talkspace is an online and mobile behavioral-health company connecting members to licensed therapists and psychiatrists via text, audio and video, with growing employer and health-plan cover...

Steven Gutentag & Demetri Karagas

Founded in 2017, Thirty Madison is a family of condition-specific telehealth brands—Keeps (hair loss), Cove (migraine), Nurx (sexual & women's health) and more. A $140M Series C valued it at ~$1B (unicorn). ...

Carolyn Witte & Felicity Yost

Founded in 2017, Tia is a women's health provider blending gynecology, primary care, mental health and wellness in one 'Whole Woman, Whole Life' model across virtual and brick-and-mortar clinics, opening its...

Lewis Cantley, Olivier Elemento & Samuel Bakhoum

Founded circa 2020 out of Weill Cornell / MSK research, Volastra develops cancer drugs targeting chromosomal instability (CIN), present in 60-80% of tumors. It in-licensed a clinical-stage KIF18A inhibitor w...