Healthtech Startups

SGU is a medical education institution offering Doctor of Medicine (MD) programs and tracks for students pursuing careers as physicians. The school operates a global network of clinical training partnerships and has produced over 25,000 graduates since 1981.

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Shades of Love is a nonprofit organization that collects sunglasses worldwide and distributes them in remote high-altitude regions to prevent eye diseases, and organizes mobile medical camps offering free eye surgeries. It operates in mountain communities including the Himalayas (Ladakh, Pakistan, Nepal) and the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Chile), with plans to expand to the Arctic.

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Shadowbox provides lab management software or services for healthcare facilities, enabling them to manage operations at multiple outpatient treatment centers.

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Shanton Pharma is a clinical-stage biotech company developing drugs for gout, hyperuricemia, and pruritus. It focuses on researching and commercializing therapies for these conditions to serve patients and medical communities.

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Shape Biopharmaceuticals develops innovative immunotherapeutic drugs and vaccines using synthetic vaccine technology and bio-nanotechnology for clinical-stage applications. The company serves the biopharmaceutical industry with next-generation therapeutic solutions.

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Shared Practices Group (SPG) is a dentist-owned Dental Support Organization (DSO) that operates full arch implant dentistry practices and provides practice management support, training, and equity partnership opportunities to dentists. It runs roughly 50 practices nationwide in the US along with an education program and podcast focused on full arch implant dentistry.

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Sharps Medical Waste Services provides compliant medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste management solutions for healthcare generators, from small clinics to large hospital systems, through flexible mailback and pickup services. The company has served over 50,000 customers nationwide since 1994, focusing on cost-effective, regulatory-compliant waste disposal.

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Sharp Therapeutics develops a small molecule drug platform designed to treat genetic diseases more affordably and quickly than current biologics and gene therapies. The company targets patients and payors seeking faster, scalable alternatives to existing genetic disease treatments.

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Five Lives offers a brain health app for people over 50, combining brain training games and adapted physical activity to support memory, language and daily autonomy. Its program is built around five lifestyle pillars — nutrition, sleep, physical activity, mood & social, and mental stimulation — aimed at reducing dementia risk.

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Shasta provides AI agents that automate healthcare administrative workflows including patient eligibility verification, insurance communication, phone call handling, and referral management for healthcare providers. The platform integrates with existing EMR systems to reduce manual data entry and improve patient scheduling and verification processes.

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Shearwater Health provides Clinical Process Outsourcing (CPO), supplying a global team of clinicians and process experts to support healthcare organizations with clinical decision support and administrative work. It serves payers, providers, and workers' compensation and disability organizations to reduce administrative burden and improve care outcomes.

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Shield Bio is a precision medicine company developing a platform for third-generation nanopore DNA sequencing that produces results in under a minute in clinical settings. It is initially applying the technology to infectious disease treatment and sepsis diagnostics.

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Shield Healthcare develops nutrition-focused therapies for women's health and early childhood development, addressing needs such as PCOD, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, and children's cognitive and physical growth. Founded in 1995, it works with doctors and researchers on evidence-based, clinically supported products and provides patient education resources.

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Shields Health Solutions integrates specialty pharmacies into hospitals and care clinics, providing access to medications across approximately 50 specialty and rare disease states. The company serves health systems and hospitals through partnerships with 80+ health systems and over 1,000 hospitals and clinics across 47 states.

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Shifamed develops and brings to market medical devices designed to address unmet clinical needs in healthcare. The company accelerates medical technology innovation through collaboration between experts from within and outside the medtech industry.

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Shift Health builds automated workflows that take over repetitive, manual administrative tasks for large provider groups and hospitals, letting healthcare staff spend more time on patient care. It operates in the healthcare automation space.

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Shiftmation is a cloud-based software service that automatically generates work shift schedules for nursing homes and other facilities. The platform helps organizations optimize staff scheduling and improve operational efficiency.

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ShiftOS builds AI agents for workforce management, initially targeting healthcare and shift-based labor with products like Holly (an AI agent for workforce administration) and ShiftRx (pharmacy staffing automation).

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ShiftRx is a staffing platform that connects pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with per diem shifts and full-time roles, while helping pharmacies and staffing agencies fill open shifts and manage provider placements. It serves healthcare facilities, pharmacy professionals, and staffing agencies in the US pharmacy sector.

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ShiftWizard, a product by HealthStream, is a mobile healthcare workforce scheduling and staffing platform used by health systems, hospitals, and departments to align staffing with patient demand and reduce labor costs. It offers self-scheduling, shift swaps, staff messaging, and certified Workday integration, and is marketed to healthcare organizations across the United States.

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Vital Delivery Solutions is a courier, logistics, and warehousing company operating since 1987 that provides same-day delivery, medical courier services, warehousing, critical parts storage, and fleet outsourcing. It focuses on healthcare logistics for labs, pharmacies, and health systems across the Northeast US (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York), using company-owned vehicles and W-2 employee drivers.

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SHOEBOX is a tablet-based audiometry platform that conducts hearing assessments on mobile devices; it has been clinically validated across multiple studies for use in various settings including clinics, schools, and remote locations.

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Shoes for Crews is a footwear company that provides certified work shoes and safety footwear for professional teams, with a focus on safety compliance and workplace adoption.

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SHOFCO is a community-driven organization founded in Kenya that addresses urban poverty through integrated services including education, healthcare, water access, and violence prevention, with a model designed to expand grassroots leadership in informal settlements. The organization operates the SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN), a coalition approach that works with local leaders to scale its holistic model across multiple communities.

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