Discover Top Angels Transforming Healthcare
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Featured StartUp Health Company
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Empower Interactive
The leading provider of digital behavioral health solutions
RAISING
Series A round
PREVIOUSLY RAISED
Funded by revenue
CUSTOMERS
Entities with financial responsibility for their population's health:
Public & private insurers
ACOs
Managed care
Integrated care
VALUE
Significantly reduces the cost of delivering behavioral health services while improving the access, quality, and quantifiability of care
TRACTION
Over $2M in revenue to date
Customers & partners include the US Army, Springstone, and HealthLinkNow
TEAM
Eve Phillips (Stanford MBA, MIT M.Eng/BS EECS)
Jesse Wright, MD, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville)
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StartUp Health Call for Applications: Next Deadline September 1, 2013
Interested in becoming a Healthcare Transformer? We are currently interviewing digital health companies to join the StartUp Health Academy in advance of our next Healthcare Transformer Summit in mid-October. To be considered for our next class, apply by September 1! If you are a builder, a disrupter, a transformer, an innovator, a passionate entrepreneur building something that will improve people’s health and wellness, we want to hear from you. Learn more about the Academy in our FAQs.
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StartUp Health Company Maxwell Health Wins Tech Cocktail Boston
![]() Congratulations to Maxwell Health on taking the top honors being named "Boston's Hottest Showcasing Startup – Best Pitch" at Tech Cocktail's Boston pitch-off last night. Maxwell Health will be invited to a future Tech Cocktail Week and will be included in the Tech Cocktail Celebrate, the company's national startup showcase in Las Vegas this October. Good luck in Vegas!
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Your Chance to Shine at Strata Rx Startup Showcase
![]() Showcase your startup to industry leaders this year at Strata Rx on September 25-27 in Boston, where O’Reilly will be inviting 12 groundbreaking health data startups to demonstrate their innovations to a packed room of investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, and potential employees. Application deadline is August 30. Learn more and apply here today.
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Vote in SXSW PanelPicker
![]() The time has come for you to weigh in on the SXSW PanelPicker proposals. Please help make digital health a key topic at SXSW by voting for these sessions being organized by StartUp Health and our companies:
Thank you for your support! September 6 is the last day to vote; it is also the last day to get the best registration rate for SXSW 2014.
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Get Special StartUp Health Community Rates to Upcoming Conferences!
Health 2.0 Fall Conference
![]() As a leader in showcasing cutting-edge innovation that’s transforming health and health care, Health 2.0 brings together the best minds, resources, and technology for compelling panels, discussions, and product demonstrations for their annual Fall Conference in Santa Clara, CA, on September 30-October 2. Register now and get a 10% discount on registration with our StartUp Health code: 10SUH13.
Diabetes Innovation
![]() Diabetes Innovation 2013 — to be held October 3-5 in Washington, DC — will be a ground-breaking, immersive event where leaders from all stakeholders in diabetes prevention, treatment, payment, education, and research come together to forge new paths toward creative and innovative solutions to the most pressing and urgent challenges of our time. Get our special StartUp Health discount code here to save $300 on your registration.
IMN Healthcare Provider Technology M&A Forum
![]() Information Management Network (IMN) is holding the inaugural Healthcare Provider Technology M&A Forum on October 22 in New York City. This event will bring together a large number of technology vendors with strategic & financial buyers and their financial intermediaries. Learn more here and save 10% on your registration from StartUp Health.
Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit
![]() On November 5 in Boston, the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit will provide insights from top industry experts, private equity and venture capital investors, corporations, healthcare IT innovators, and government officials. Startups can save $200 on registration with our special StartUp Health discount code.
Digital Health Conference
![]() Join over 1,200 of your peers at the New York eHealth Collaborative’s Digital Health Conference on November 14-15 in NYC as they come together to hear insights, ideas, and analysis from industry thought leaders and innovators who are shaping the future of healthcare through the use of technology. Get more info and your special StartUp Health 20% discount code here.
UP Conference
![]() You are invited to attend, speak, sponsor, exhibit, and nominate for awards at the 4th annual international UP 2013 cloud computing conference, taking place December 3 in Santa Clara, CA. Get details and a 20% off registration code from StartUp Health here.
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StartUp Health Insights
Top Digital Health Funding This Week
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Upcoming Health Events & Challenges
Startup Day Across America
August 29, 2013
Nationwide
Entrepreneur’s Club: Neither Fish nor Fowl: the Dilemma of a Physician Entrepreneur
September 5, 2013
San Francisco, CA
SXSW PanelPicker
Voting ends:
September 6, 2013
Lean Launchpad for Life Science & Healthcare
Registration deadline:
September 6, 2013
San Francisco, CA
Health 2.0 Design-a-thon
Deadline for submissions:
September 7, 2013
Transform 2013
September 8-10, 2013
Rochester, MN
Accountable Care & Health IT Strategies Summit
September 10-12, 2013
San Francisco, CA
NHLBI’s SBIR/STTR Program Presentation and One-on-Ones
September 11, 2013
San Francisco, CA
LSAN Health, Behavior and Economics Interactive Summit
September 12, 2013
New York, NY
M6 Mobility xChange
September 15-17, 2013
San Diego, CA
National Healthcare Performance and Outcomes Analytics Summit
September 16-18, 2013
Washington, DC
Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF: Introduction to IP Basics Workshop
September 17, 2013
San Francisco, CA
GigaOM’s Structure:Europe
September 18-19, 2013
London, England
TAG Health: mHealth: Engaging the Masses and Making It Work for Your Bottom Line
September 19, 2013
Atlanta, GA
Re.Work Technology
September 19, 2013
London, England
Privacy & Security Forum
September 23, 2013
Boston, MA
O’Reilly Strata Rx Conference
September 25-27, 2013
Boston, MA
Medicine X
September 27-29, 2013
Stanford, CA
Health 2.0 Fall Conference 2013
September 29-October 2, 2013
Santa Clara, CA
DC to VC
September 30, 2013
Santa Clara, CA
Glazed Conference
September 30, 2013
San Francisco, CA
For even more, visit our listings of Events & Challenges.
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Health Tech Jobs! StartUp Health Is Hiring!
Be sure to check out the new positions at StartUp Health and with StartUp Health companies, such as CareDox, Greatist, Doctor.com, TalkSession, Medivo, 1eq, and others! Find all these opportunities and more or post new openings for free on the StartUp Health Network Job Board.
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Join the StartUp Health Network
Visit startuphealth.net and sign the Pledge to request free access to the StartUp Health Network. More than 9,500 innovators — including over 3,000 startups, nearly 700 VCs, and hundreds of angels and potential customers — are already using the Network to connect.
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Congratulations to Maxwell Health on taking the top honors being named "Boston's Hottest Showcasing Startup – Best Pitch" at Tech Cocktail's Boston pitch-off last night. Maxwell Health 
Showcase your startup to industry leaders this year at Strata Rx on September 25-27 in Boston, where O’Reilly will be inviting 12 groundbreaking health data startups to demonstrate their innovations to a packed room of investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, and potential employees. Application deadline is August 30. 
The time has come for you to weigh in on the SXSW PanelPicker proposals. Please help make digital health a key topic at SXSW by voting for these sessions being organized by StartUp Health and our companies:
As a leader in showcasing cutting-edge innovation that’s transforming health and health care, Health 2.0 brings together the best minds, resources, and technology for compelling panels, discussions, and product demonstrations for their annual Fall Conference in Santa Clara, CA, on September 30-October 2. 
Diabetes Innovation 2013 — to be held October 3-5 in Washington, DC — will be a ground-breaking, immersive event where leaders from all stakeholders in diabetes prevention, treatment, payment, education, and research come together to forge new paths toward creative and innovative solutions to the most pressing and urgent challenges of our time. 
Information Management Network (IMN) is holding the inaugural Healthcare Provider Technology M&A Forum on October 22 in New York City. This event will bring together a large number of technology vendors with strategic & financial buyers and their financial intermediaries. 
On November 5 in Boston, the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit will provide insights from top industry experts, private equity and venture capital investors, corporations, healthcare IT innovators, and government officials. 
Join over 1,200 of your peers at the New York eHealth Collaborative’s Digital Health Conference on November 14-15 in NYC as they come together to hear insights, ideas, and analysis from industry thought leaders and innovators who are shaping the future of healthcare through the use of technology. 
You are invited to attend, speak, sponsor, exhibit, and nominate for awards at the 4th annual international UP 2013 cloud computing conference, taking place December 3 in Santa Clara, CA. 
