Episodes

  • Rethinking the Rules: Julie Yoo of a16z on Infinite Healthcare, Compound Businesses, and the New Investor Playbook

    Rethinking the Rules: Julie Yoo of a16z on Infinite Healthcare, Compound Businesses, and the New Investor Playbook
    Apr 10 2026
    Julie Yoo has seen healthcare from nearly every angle, as a founder who scaled Kyruus to 20 million patients, as a board member, and now as a General Partner at a16z leading investments in some of the most consequential AI health companies being built ...
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    26 mins
  • The New Data Layer in MRI: Valerie and Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, of Imaginostics on Building a One-of-a-Kind Vascular Health Platform

    The New Data Layer in MRI: Valerie and Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, of Imaginostics on Building a One-of-a-Kind Vascular Health Platform
    Apr 7 2026
    What does it mean to build something that has never existed before? In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Unity Stoakes sits down with CEO & Co-founder Valerie Gharagouzloo and Chief Science Officer & Co-founder Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD, of Imaginostics...
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    28 mins
  • Kim Fisher on Why Food as Medicine Is at a Tipping Point — And What It Will Take to Get There

    Kim Fisher on Why Food as Medicine Is at a Tipping Point — And What It Will Take to Get There
    Mar 31 2026
    What does it actually take to transform the way the world thinks about food as a driver of health? Kim Fisher has spent years finding out — as an entrepreneur, a startup mentor, a UC Davis program director, and now as Chief Impact Officer of StartUp He...
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    30 mins
  • From Record to Reason: Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa on Building the Brain Behind Healthcare AI

    From Record to Reason: Mehmet Kazgan of cliexa on Building the Brain Behind Healthcare AI
    Mar 27 2026
    Most healthcare AI conversations start and end with documentation. StartUp Health community member Mehmet Kazgan, CEO & Founder of cliexa, thinks that is the wrong place to focus. In this episode of StartUp Health NOW, Kazgan joins Unity Stoakes for a ...
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    31 mins
  • Food as Medicine x AI: Two Pioneering Founders on the Future of Personalized Nutrition

    Food as Medicine x AI: Two Pioneering Founders on the Future of Personalized Nutrition
    Mar 13 2026
    Food as medicine is having a moment, but for leaders like Richard Bennett of Epicured and Victor Penev of Edamam, this is not a passing trend. It is the long-building future of healthcare. In this special highlight episode of StartUp Health NOW, Unity ...
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    24 mins
  • Reducing Licensing Friction to Unlock Clinician Capacity with Dr. Ian Madom, CEO & Co-founder of Mocingbird

    Reducing Licensing Friction to Unlock Clinician Capacity with Dr. Ian Madom, CEO & Co-founder of Mocingbird
    Mar 5 2026
    Ian Madom, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and co-founder of Mocingbird, joins us on StartUp Health NOW to discuss how administrative friction quietly limits healthcare access and clinician capacity. Drawing from his own experience in practice, Dr. Madom ...
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    28 mins
  • EqualityMD’s Pre-Insurance Strategy to Reduce Care Avoidance and Lower Healthcare Costs

    EqualityMD’s Pre-Insurance Strategy to Reduce Care Avoidance and Lower Healthcare Costs
    Feb 24 2026
    In this Health Moonshot Update, StartUp Health community member Justin Ayars of EqualityMD explains how the company is redefining employer healthcare through a pre-insurance model designed to resolve health needs before insurance is triggered. Equality...
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    29 mins
  • Sana Health Clears a Major Milestone in the Fight Against Chronic Pain

    Sana Health Clears a Major Milestone in the Fight Against Chronic Pain
    Feb 20 2026
    StartUp Health community member Richard Hanbury of Sana Health joined Unity Stoakes for a Health Moonshot Update just prior to achieving a major regulatory milestone: an FDA De Novo grant for neuropathic pain, establishing a new class of audio-visual n...
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    29 mins