UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Launches New Cohort of 10 Startups

What You Should Know: 

• The UnitedHealthcare Accelerator program, announced its fifth cohort of 10 digital health startups to participate in its four-month collaborative mentorship-driven program.
• Selected startups will receive guidance from UnitedHealthcare and Optum executive, fundraising support, and $50k in capital. 90% of this year’s companies were founded by women and / or people of color.

Here is a look at UnitedHealthcare Accelerator’s 2023 program class: 

1. Advocatia | Lake Bluff, IL
   Empowers healthcare organizations to engage and enroll their customers into benefits programs that reduce costs and improve health outcomes.
2. Affect Therapeutics | McLean, VA
   National, tech-enabled healthcare provider offering digital substance use disorder treatment.
3. Budgie Health | New York, NY
   Guides employees to the right health plan choice for them, leveraging real-time claims and financial analytics.
4. Isaac Health | New York, NY
   Scalable platform for population brain health and dementia management.
5. Laguna Health | New York, NY
   AI-powered contextual care management platform leveraging NLP to identify complex members’ individual life barriers and intervene automatically, at scale.
6. Marti Health | Atlanta, GA
   Committed to eliminating health disparities in special needs populations beginning with sickle cell disease.
7. Mighty Health | Los Angeles, CA
   The leading all-in-one chronic disease and weight management program for adults 50+.
8. Mirza | New York, NY
   Mirza works with employers to remove childcare as an obstacle for working parents by maximizing available government funds that help workers afford the care they need.
9. Spark | New York, NY
   Modern, tech-enabled Medicare brokerage partnering with local independent agents to advise Medicare beneficiaries on all their biggest healthcare decisions.
10. StationMD | Maplewood, NJ Telehealth company dedicated to serving individuals with intellectual and/or development disabilities (I/DD).