Marcus Richards
In the vibrant city of Austin, Texas, an interesting cluster of medical startups took root in 2020 and later. These companies serve as testament to Austin’s fostering environment for innovation in the healthcare industry. Harnessing the power of technology, the startups are advancing the medical field with diverse areas of focus like AI, robotics, mental health, and more. Let’s shine the spotlight on some of these trailblazing companies.
From delivering high-end public health services like mass COVID-19 testing to developing robotic controls for prosthetic limbs, each of these firms adds a unique and valuable component to the broader healthcare landscape. Furthermore, they are addressing key challenges in the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, advancing patient outcomes and optimizing health monitoring technologies.
Although these startups only have a few years under their belt, their impressive strides in healthcare already hint at the immense potential they possess. Here, we delve into the details about each of them, their missions and their continuing contributions to the medical field.
Curative
Curative, founded by Fred Turner, Isaac Turner and Vlad Slepnev, is focused on transforming healthcare through better experiences and outcomes. As a leader in public health service programs, Curative provides services ranging from COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, to other essential public health services. Its growing network of over 13,000 testing sites and three CLIA-certified labs has provided over 30M PCR test results to date and over 2M COVID-19 vaccinations.
Phantom Neuro
Phantom Neuro is a medical company that creates a system enabling lifelike control of robotic orthopedic technologies, especially prosthetic limbs and exoskeletons. Through their innovation, the firm is making technology more accessible and useful for medical applications.
Sparrow Software
Sparrow Software founded by Gabriel J. Apodaca, Marie Turock, Paul Robke and Rory Brown, offers a no-code, AI-accessible software automation studio for healthcare systems and medical device companies. By addressing innovation pain points in the healthcare sector, Sparrow.AI works towards shortening the distance to positive patient outcomes.
Heading Health
Heading Health, founded by Ali Mahomed, Benjamin Goldman, Simon Tankel and Steve Levine, is a technology-enabled mental health platform improving access to affordable care. It delivers personalized treatment solutions that harness evidence-based therapeutics and technologies such as Spravato, transcranial magnetic stimulation and telepsychiatry treatments.
AffirmXH
The medical device startup AffirmXH, founded by Ian Shadforth, Leif Bowman, and Thomas Hall, is focused on developing accessible solutions for remote monitoring of various health conditions. Their framework collects key biometric data from an individual, including temperature, heart rate, heart rate variability, and motion.
1 True Health
1 True Health operates in the healthcare, health diagnostics, and medical device industry, with no further information provided.
Mcfarlane Dental
Mcfarlane Dental offers comprehensive services in the realm of dentistry including advanced diagnostics and treatment of dental and oral disorders as well as general, cosmetic, and restorative dentistry services.
Advantage Medical Billing
Advantage Medical Billing provides business intelligence reporting, revenue cycle management, medical coding, and medical billing services with a goal to increase revenue by reducing administrative costs.
Medical Elution Devices
Medical Elution Devices features polymer-coated devices containing medication(s) that adhere to the surface of existing medical implements such as chest tubes, endotracheal tubes, and implants. These coated devices then elute drug over a predetermined period, dispensing treatment to the relevant areas.
Retina Consultants of Austin
Retina Consultants of Austin offers eye care services across multiple disorders and conditions like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, and uveitis, among others.
MedScout
MedScout, founded by Casey Shattuck and Skylar Talley, operates in the healthcare, medical, sales, and software industry, with no further information provided.
