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This week, I’m taking things back to the roots of this newsletter.
When I first started writing it, my goal was simple: to help clinicians understand what’s really happening at the intersection of healthcare and technology — not in theory, but through the real companies building the future of care.
Along the way, we’ve talked a lot about resumes, transitions, skill sets, and strategy (all important!). But ever since attending the HLTH conference, surrounded by innovators, founders, and clinicians building what’s next — I was reminded exactly why I started this in the first place, and that there are way more companies to sort through than there were when I first started.
LinkedIn recently released its annual Top Startups of 2025 list — a collection of 50 fast-growing U.S. companies on the rise. I combed through the list to pull out the ones operating in the health space, and this week, I’m breaking them down.
Because seeing who’s actually building the future helps you spot the trends early, understand where your skills fit, and maybe even discover your next career move.
So, in true OG newsletter fashion — let’s dive into the companies, what they do, and why it matters.
For the 9th year in a row, LinkedIn has created their list of Top Startups on the rise. Of course this is rather subjective but still interesting to see what makes the list, as LinkedIn looks across multiple attributes outside of things like revenue, instead looking at pillars like employment growth, engagement, job interest, and attraction of top talent.
The healthcare companies that made the cut this year are as follows (in order of appearance on the list):
What they do: Cadence provides remote patient monitoring and virtual care. They partner with health systems to manage chronic conditions like hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes using connected devices and care teams.
Why it matters: Cadence helps hospitals unlock scalable chronic care management without burning out their clinical teams. It also shifts care upstream with the goal of fewer hospitalizations and better outcomes.
What they do: A virtual intensive outpatient program for teens and young adults, offering personalized group and individual therapy.
Why it matters: They’ve scaled access to higher-acuity mental health care in a population that has historically been underserved. Charlie Health is out to prove that virtual care can support complex behavioral health needs when done with structure and continuity.
What they do: Direct-to-consumer advanced lab testing paired with longevity-focused insights. Members get 100+ biomarkers, tracked over time.
Why it matters: Function Health is part of the “consumerized preventive care” movement, people wanting deeper health data without waiting for traditional systems. It signals growing pressure on healthcare to move from reactive to proactive, data-driven wellness. While the need for these labs in an otherwise healthy person is arguable, there is no doubt that there is a growing sector of patients who want them and will want help interpreting them.
What they do: Medallion automates provider licensing, credentialing, enrollment, and compliance for digital health companies, health systems, and payers.
Why it matters: No innovation in healthcare scales without clinicians, and clinicians can’t work without credentials. Medallion is reducing one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in healthcare. Faster onboarding = faster patient access.
What they do: Marketplace + infrastructure for therapists to build private practices. Helps clinicians get paneled with insurance, manage billing, and get clients.
Why it matters: Insurance-based mental health access is historically a mess. Grow Therapy makes it possible for therapists to work independently and stay in-network, expanding access for patients who can’t pay cash.
What they do: Virtual care focused on women’s midlife health including perimenopause, menopause, hormone management, and related conditions.
Why it matters: Women over 40 represent one of healthcare’s most underserved segments. Midi shows how specialty-focused virtual care can address long-ignored needs with evidence-based, personalized treatment, and it’s exploding in demand.
What they do:
Solace is a digital health platform that connects patients with trained healthcare advocates who help them navigate the healthcare system including administrative tasks, appointment coordination, medical records, insurance issues, prior authorizations, and care planning.
Why it matters:
The U.S. healthcare system is a maze, and most people are left to navigate it alone while sick, stressed, or overwhelmed. Solace brings structure, support, and clarity to a historically chaotic experience.
What they do: A marketplace connecting families with trained caregivers often students pursuing healthcare careers, at affordable rates.
Why it matters:
Home care is expensive, understaffed, and inconsistent. CareYaya broadens the caregiver workforce and reduces costs while giving aspiring clinicians hands-on experience. It’s a win-win in a sector facing massive demand.
What they do: A modern pharma research organization focused on speeding up clinical trials through better software, patient recruitment tools, and site operations.
Why it matters:
Slower trials = slower medical breakthroughs. Vial brings tech into a historically manual industry — improving speed, cost, and data quality. They claim that their “hyper scalable model is transforming drug development.”
What they do: AI clinical documentation tools that automate charting, intake, notes, and after-visit summaries.
Why it matters:
Clinician burnout is heavily tied to documentation. Ambience reduces after-hours charting, improves accuracy, and frees up clinicians to focus on patients. It’s one of the most impactful real-world uses of AI in healthcare today.
What they do: An employer-focused platform for healthcare navigation, care delivery, pharmacy services, and bundled care. Built to simplify the member experience and reduce employer healthcare spend.
Why it matters:
Transcarent is reinventing the “employee benefits experience” — making it more consumer-friendly, transparent, and aligned to value rather than volume.
What they do: A massive clinical data platform built from a consortium of U.S. health systems, offering de-identified, research-grade patient data for insights, safety monitoring, and AI training.
Why it matters:
High-quality, representative healthcare data has been historically hard to come by. Truveta’s dataset is powering the next era of clinical AI, real-world evidence generation, and population health insights. It’s shaping how AI in healthcare gets trained and validated.
What they do: A digital dentistry platform that provides labs, scanning technology, and workflows so dental practices can deliver things like crowns, aligners, and implants faster and at lower cost.
Why it matters:
Dental workflows are notoriously slow and analog. Dandy brings modern tech and logistics to an industry that’s overdue for digitization — improving turnaround times, quality, and patient experience.
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