We’ve got some big news to share!

Today we announced that 16 new companies were selected to join the StartUp Health Academy! Our newest group of “Healthcare Transformers” hail from all over the U.S. and across the globe, including from India, Ireland and Canada. There are now 63 companies in the StartUp Health family, spanning seven countries and more than 30 cities.

Learn about the 16 new companies below...

Also, we’re delighted to announce that Nadeem Kassam, a member of StartUp Health’s inaugural class and the founder of BASIS Science (which was recently acquired by Intel), will join StartUp Health as its first “Healthcare Transformer in Residence.” We are thrilled that he will be an active startup coach and global innovation scout.

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With 16 New Companies, StartUp Health Spans
7 Countries and More Than 30 Cities

BASIS Science Founder Nadeem Kassam Joins StartUp Health 
as First ‘Healthcare Transformer in Residence’

New York, NY - April 8, 2014 - StartUp Health, a global startup platform accelerating innovation in health and wellness, today announced the addition of 16 new companies to its StartUp Health Academy, a long-term entrepreneurship program and community designed to help scale early-stage digital health companies. To date, 63 companies have joined StartUp Health, three of which have been acquired, and the program's portfolio has raised a total of $130 million.

Thousands of startups that share a common goal of transforming health and wellness have applied to the StartUp Health Academy. Each quarter, it invites fewer than 20 companies to join its comprehensive three-year entrepreneurship program. These companies are led by some of the best and brightest serial entrepreneurs, doctors, technologists and trained scientists. Selected companies become part of a close community of “Healthcare Transformers” and participate in a long-term coaching program focused on scaling their businesses, leadership development and providing access to investors, customers, talent and partners who are committed to healthcare innovation.

“We are entering a great period of transformation, where all aspects of our health and wellness are being reimagined by inspiring and passionate entrepreneurs from around the world,” said Jerry Levin, Chairman of StartUp Health. “StartUp Health’s growing family of Healthcare Transformers represents the beginning of what’s possible when entrepreneurs lead the way and it signals the remarkable potential for cross-pollination between innovators in different countries.”

Today, StartUp Health also announced that Nadeem Kassam, a member of StartUp Health’s inaugural class and the founder of BASIS Science, which was recently acquired by Intel, will join StartUp Health as its first “Healthcare Transformer in Residence.” His focus will be helping the current community of Startup Health companies and scouting the ecosystem for new startups.  

“To be surrounded by such an extraordinary network of entrepreneurs and innovators and have an ongoing support infrastructure to navigate challenges has been invaluable. I am honored to coach this amazing group of Healthcare Transformers and help StartUp Health continue to find the next generation of innovators,” Kassam said.

This week, StartUp Health will host its quarterly Healthcare Transformer Summit in New York City and showcase its companies to some of the tech industry’s biggest brands, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo!, as well as nearly 300 health-­focused investors, healthcare brands and strategic partners.

All of the new StartUp Health companies share a goal of solving critical problems in healthcare, and they cover a wide range of subsectors within the field, from big data and genetics to care management to employee wellness.

The new StartUp Health companies include:

• Althea Health - Patient-powered research for rare and neglected diseases
  Subsector: Rare diseases
  Founders: Greg Cohen, Manu Kodiyan, Sanjay Raghu
  Location: San Francisco, CA
  www.altheahealth.com

• CarePredict - Wearable sensor for senior care
  Subsector: Sensors
  Founders: Satish Movva, Krishnatej Vedala, PhD
  Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
  www.carepredict.com

• Health123 - Salesforce for wellness management
  Subsector: Wellness platform
  Founders: Rachel Lanham, Rebecca Norlander
  Location: Seattle, WA
  www.health123.com

• Hindsait - Cognitive analytics for patient risk assessment
  Subsector: Big data analytics
  Founders: Pinaki Dasgupta, Adrish Sannyasi
  Location: Englewood, NJ
  www.hindsait.com

• Inbox Health - Patient billing, payments and analytics
  Subsector: Navigating the healthcare system
  Founders: Blake Walker, Spencer Ewald, Simon Kaluza
  Location: Bridgeport, CT
  www.inboxhealth.com

• LifeDojo - The cure for the common corporate wellness program
  Subsector: Employee wellness
  Founders: Chris Cutter, Varun Vummidi, Patricia Bedard
  Location: New York, NY
  www.lifedojo.com

• Mobile Health One - Communication platform for care providers and patients
  Subsector: Care management
  Founders: David Crane, John Abrahams, MD
  Location: New York, NY
  www.mobilehealthone.com

• PHmHealth - Ensuring compliance in provider-patient interactions by making home healthcare as trackable as a UPS package
  Subsector: Care management
  Founders: Dirk Rassloff, Michael Mittelman  
  Location: Philadelphia, PA
  www.phm-health.com

• Pocket Anatomy - Visual patient education software
  Subsector: Ed tech  
  Founders: Mark Campbell, Thomas King
  Location: Galway, Ireland
  www.pocketanatomy.com

• Punctil - Punctuality solutions for healthcare
  Subsector: Care management
  Founders: Ben Picard, Denis Abrams, PhD
  Location: New York, NY
  www.punctil.com

• RxREVU - Saving money for patients & payors through prescription optimization
  Subsector: Navigating the healthcare system
  Founders: Carm Huntress, Kevin O’Brien, MD, Dan Caron, Peregrin Marshall
  Location: Denver, CO
  www.rxrevu.com

• Shift Health - Bringing the patient voice into clinical care
  Subsector: Low literacy healthcare communication
  Founders: Sandy Whitehouse, MD, Daniel Penn
  Location: Toronto, Canada
  www.shifthealth.ca

• SmartRx - Healthcare CRM platform
  Subsector: Patient Engagement, Patient Relationship Management
  Founders: Anil Kumar, Vishesh Rohatgi, MD, Vijayakumar Kannan
  Location: Bangalore, India
  www.smartrx.in

• Tute Genomics - Cloud-based genome analysis for precision medicine
  Subsector: Big data & analytics
  Founders: Reid Robison, MD, MBA, Kai Wang, PhD
  Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  www.tutegenomics.com

• Vheda Health - Personalized mobile disease management & analytics
  Subsector: Care management
  Founders: Shameet Luhar, Philip Rub
  Location: Columbia, MD
  www.vheda.com

• Wellthie - Product marketing platform for health plans
  Subsector: Navigating the healthcare system
  Founders:  Sally Poblete
  Location: New York, NY
  www.wellthie.com

StartUp Health Stats as of April 2014

• Total Companies: 63
• Total Raised to Date: $130 Million
• Countries Represented: 7 (Brazil, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Spain, United States)
• Physician/Practitioner Founders: 46%
• Serial Entrepreneurs: 35%
• Women Founders: 24%
• Seed Accelerator Grads: 25%
• Total Acquisitions: 3 (Arpeggi was acquired by Gene by Gene in 2013; Avado was acquired by WebMD in 2013; and BASIS Science was acquired by Intel in March of 2014)