28 Healthcare Startups and Tech Companies in Los Angeles You Should Know

Silicon Beach is home to a number of world-class hospitals and universities, and a growing network of entrepreneurs, developers and investors focused on healthcare. LA healthtech startups are spreading information, empowering patients, streamlining processes for caregivers and driving new thought about medicine and how we look after ourselves and each other.

 

Tebra aims to build technology that enhances the care journey for medical providers and their patients. Its comprehensive platform for medical practices enables online appointment scheduling, electronic prescribing, secure patient messaging, claims management, revenue analytics and other important components of efficient operations.

 

Management consultancy ZS makes a cloud-based platform for healthcare business management. The platform, ZAIDYN, handles sales performance, analytics and reporting, and is used by over 100,000 pharma reps globally. The company also offers health plan consulting with the aim of increasing member acquisition and retention alongside commercialization strategy for rare disease therapies.  

 

Carrot Fertility provides a comprehensive fertility care platform that delivers services via employee benefits packages. Provided as an add-on to health plans, the company says it offers inclusive global coverage at competitive costs and boasts improved cost and health outcomes. Companies like Zoom and Clif Bar have partnered with Carrot Fertility.

 

TigerConnect delivers healthcare communications solutions to providers and other medical professionals designed to enhance staff productivity and improve relationships and outcomes with patients. The company offers a powerful suite of HIPAA compliant technologies and products including text and video messaging, workflow automation tools, analytics and other administrative integrations.

As one of the country’s leading healthcare telecommunications companies, TigerConnect disrupts traditional communication and management practices in hospitals across the United States, streamlining necessary operations to help hospitals and other medical facilities become more efficient and profitable.

 

Well Health is a healthcare communications platform that patients can use to keep in touch with their providers or hospitals of choice. Patients who use Well Health can reach out to their doctors or nurses quickly via text, phone call, email and live chat, and their software additionally helps healthcare organizations personalize their email blasts and calls to patients by combining human intelligence with automated technologies.

Getting reliably in touch with your provider of choice through traditional means can be extremely complicated, so Well Health aims to make it easier for patients to reach out to their caregivers and empowers them to more actively participate in their health and wellbeing. Well Health also benefits clients on the provider side by offering communications technologies that help medical personnel develop more personalized and meaningful relationships with their clients.

 

GoodRx empowers consumers who are trying to get the best deals on prescription drugs. Its website and mobile app provide over 500 million pricing options for more than 6,000 different medications, with real-time updates on discounts, coupons and price fluctuations.

Prescription drug prices have long been a headache for many Americans. GoodRx helps patients get medications at competitive prices, but its real business is information. By bringing transparency to the prescription drug business, GoodRx incentivizes merchants to build more open relationships by making sure customers get fair prices on the medications they need the most.

 

SimplePractice is a Santa Monica-based software company that makes it easier for medical professionals to take in new clients, converse with them, schedule future appointments and manage payments. Medical professionals from Psychologists to Social Workers utilize SimplePractice’s software as a tool to grow their practices and run them more efficiently.

 

Chorus Innovations is a digital healthcare platform that helps the healthcare industry create digital health solutions. The Chorus Innovations platform helps healthcare providers, with no coding and programming knowledge, create visually-appealing and highly-functional apps. Healthcare providers can create surveys and patient portals, and can integrate SMS and voice in their apps with the no-code platform.

 

Ritual is a direct-to-consumer multivitamin brand. Ritual’s vitamins contain traceable nutrients, non-GMOs, no artificial colorants and are vegan friendly. The company has vitamins specifically made for men, women and children, including both pre and post-natal vitamins for mothers.

 

Medely is an on-demand platform for healthcare professionals to find per diem work. Health professionals, like Registered Nurses and Techs, use Medely to book short-term and per diem work at local healthcare facilities. These professionals set their own schedules, see daily job opportunities and can accept jobs that fit their skill level.  

 

ChromaDex is an integrated nutraceutical company dedicated to improving the way people age. The company’s team of scientists partner with universities and research institutions to identify and develop novel, science-based ingredients.

ChromaDex’s flagship product, NIAGEN, increases nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) — a vital resource that many people lack due to things like overeating and drinking alcohol. While many within the scientific community have been focusing heavily on NAD research in recent years, ChromaDex is leading the way with NIAGEN, which boasts three FDA safety notifications and more than 100 pre-clinical studies.

 

Santa Monica based, Headspace is a mobile platform promoting mental health through meditation sessions and training in mindfulness. In addition to their southern California headquarters, Headspace has locations in San Francisco and London and is used by millions of users across 190 countries.

 

Honeybee Health is a HIPAA accredited online pharmacy that works to provide patients with prescription medications without high retail markups. Founded by a team of technology experts and pharmacists, Honeybee Health tackles price gouging in the pharmaceuticals industry by offering prescription deliveries at a fraction of the cost of other retailers.

It's a well known fact that many medications are priced far above the actual cost of their production. Honeybee Health aims to actively find solutions to this issue by ensuring full transparency in their pricing decisions, helping to make sure patients pay fair prices for their essential medications.

 

DivvyDOSE is an online pharmacy delivering individualized packs of medications to patients. DivvyDOSE makes it easier for patients to order and take their prescription medication. All patients have to do is sign up, transfer their prescription and the company will build and deliver them straight to the patient’s door. The prescriptions come in individual packets with the date, time and contents listed clearly on each package.

 

Quantgene’s Deep Genomics Platform combines deep sequencing and AI to enable earlier detection of diseases. Quantgene’s Griffin Deep Genomics Platform uses AI to detect disease down to a single molecule. The platform’s machine learning analyzes cell-free DNA in a blood sample to gain insights into diseases, like cancer. 

 

Anagram enables healthcare providers to allow patients to use their healthcare benefits and claims regardless of their insurance networks. The company aims to make paying for healthcare and leveraging insurance benefits a simple and transparent experience for both providers and patients.

Considering patients are often denied access to quality healthcare due to out-of-network insurance plans, Anagram is making it so that providers can accept any network, removing the need to handle paper claims or deal with patient denials. The company enables providers to make more money in the process by letting them decide which networks they want to be in and allowing them to set their own price and discounts to support patients who pay cash.

 

Focused on clinical trials, Science 37 brings together mobile nursing companies, pharmacies and patient advocates, making much-needed research more efficient. Science 37 has built a strong network, raised $6.5M and even received a workshop invitation from the White House. As healthcare trends toward transparency and democratization, expect its influence to grow.

 

The new age of house calls is here. An app that gets a licensed doctor or pediatrician to your home with the tap of a screen, Heal has seen enormous growth and garnered a lot of press attention. Founded by a wife-and-husband team of frustrated physicians, Heal has seen explosive growth in demand, over 300% in 2016 alone. It has raised $5M and still charges users a mere $99 per visit.

 

Credentials are a recurring headache for healthcare professionals, and Silversheet aims to streamline the process, making it easier for doctors to stay compliant. Simply put, Silversheet puts credentials in the cloud. This has significant implications for smoother collaboration and easy transparency in all sorts of high-compliance sectors.

 

The amount of information generated in the healthcare sector is staggering. Medversant pulls together numerous files and databases into one hub, true to its motto: "One provider, one record."

According to Medversant's estimates, 50% of provider records are incorrect at any given time. Medversant hopes to change that with a simple idea and a range of applications. Its Virtual Review Committee has the potential to cut down dramatically on time lag and bureaucracy in the caring professions.

 

NantHealth facilitates personalized patient tracking with an evidence-based approach that knows its way around the human genome. Going strong for nearly 10 years, NantHealth has raised almost $564M, placing it among LA's most successful and powerful healthtech companies. A tenacious and persistent unicorn, It was recently valued at $2B.

 

With an eye toward transparency, Push Health uses technology to bring together patients and providers in a tight network. In a few years, Push Health has built a group of thousands of users. It integrates with Quest Diagnostics and more than 50,000 pharmacies and demonstrates how a tech startup can help democratize healthcare.

 

SnapMD facilitates one-on-one live video consultations between patients and pediatric physicians. Communication is secure and HIPPA-compliant. Online communication has been trending toward video for some time, and sometimes patients need doctors but aren't able to travel. 

 

With a mission to "bring clarity to healthcare decisions," WiserCare is an information clearinghouse and support system for patients and providers alike. Too often, important healthcare decisions are made from a place of fear and confusion. By cutting through medical jargon and helping consumers and medical professionals communicate clearly, WiserCare helps people get more effective treatment and navigate scary terrain with more confidence.

 

Applied VR was established by top academics and by Lieberman Research Worldwide, one of the world's premier marketing research firms, to provide the first virtual reality software designed specifically for clinical settings and applications.

VR is very much a hot topic right now, and its applications in healthcare are myriad, but Applied VR isn't just part of a trend. It is driven by decades of clinical and academic research, and has built strategic partnerships with world-class hospitals and universities. It's another Techstars Healthcare Accelerator alum that will likely cast its influence decades into the future.

 

Currently looking to launch out of beta, Ella was cofounded by serial entrepreneur Alexandra Skey. The startup is designed as a a mindfulness program for those managing chronic pain. With Ella, ancient wisdom meets neuroscience, and they have a lot in common. Mindfulness interventions have led to significant cost reductions in chronic pain treatment, and can literally change the brains of people who most need relief from suffering.

 

h2 Wellness is a digital platform for behavioral health. It licenses its software to coaches, health clubs and others who want more effective ways to help people make healthier decisions over time. Behavioral health guidance can cut untold costs from the healthcare system through preventative care. h2 Wellness started as a coaching engine called Maestro with a healthy appetite for Big Data, and it now serves athletes, low-carb dieters, and many others.

 

1-800-DENTIST was one of the original medical matchmaking services, giving patients easy access to a wide choice of providers long before the internet went mainstream. It has kept its endearingly old-school brand intact, but 1-800-DENTIST isn't just a forerunner of the information revolution brought on by digital tech. It has steadily expanded its online services and building one of the most formidable networks of its kind.