WASHINGTON D.C. (September 2025) - The Techstars Healthcare Accelerator powered by Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States is proud to announce the 10 startups selected for its inaugural class. These visionary entrepreneurs are building companies to meaningfully transform healthcare delivery, making it more accessible, personalized, and efficient. 

"These companies were chosen through an extremely competitive process, and are led by exceptional teams. They are showing great early promise addressing a wide range of significant challenges in healthcare. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with and supporting them in the months and years ahead.”

- Keith Camhi, Techstars Managing Director

This program will provide a unique opportunity for founders to receive support and mentorship from both Techstars and Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States, an award-winning group of 1,800 physicians spanning more than 60 medical specialties and nearly 300 staff professionals, and the exclusive care provider of Kaiser Permanente in the Washington D.C., Virginia, and Maryland region.

“We are delighted to welcome these ten startups. After an extensive review process, we believe that each has the potential to thrive in a value-based care environment to enhance patient outcomes, reduce costs, and improve care experiences across diverse populations. We look forward to working with them in the accelerator as they iterate toward product-market fit, and look forward to many collaboration and pilot opportunities on their paths to impacting healthcare at scale.”

- Dr. Richard McCarthy, Executive Medical Director, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group

The class is working on a broad spectrum of solutions, with focuses including Cardiovascular Health, Clinical Workflows, Hospital at Home, Lifestyle Medicine, Mental Health, Ophthalmology, Pathology, Population Health, and Surgery. 

“Joining Techstars and collaborating with Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States is an incredible opportunity to accelerate CIPRA.ai’s mission of delivering precise, AI-powered care for chronic conditions and expand our impact for patients.”

- Sujit Dey, CEO, CIPRA.ai

“The future of mental health care is continuous, not episodic. With Mindframe, therapy extends beyond the session to drive ongoing progress. We’re thrilled to partner with Techstars and Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States to shape a future of behavioral health where everyone involved in care receives the support they deserve.”

- Pinar Gorgulu, CEO, Mindframe

The ten companies come from around the U.S. (including the DMV area, NYC, and California) and from four other countries looking to commercialize their solutions in the U.S.

“We’re thrilled to join Techstars to accelerate our mission of making eye diagnostics accessible worldwide. This is a big step forward in bringing our smartphone-based vision screening to the US and beyond.”

- Piotr Kruszynski, CEO & Founder of Feyenally (Poland)

“We’re excited about Techstars as it opens the door to the U.S. market—our primary focus for scaling Medicus globally.”

- Jason An, CEO of URBANDATALAB (Korea)

At the culmination of the three-month program, founders will have the opportunity to showcase their startups at Demo Day in the first week of December. This event in Washington D.C. will offer a platform to celebrate their progress and solutions with our dynamic community of investors and mentors.

Please join us in welcoming the Class of 2025!

• Allswell (San Francisco, CA)

Allswell is reimagining mental health care with AI-enabled, group-based therapy built specifically for the LGBTQ+ community.

• BeneKinetic (Rockville, MD)

BeneKinetic delivers AI-led virtual group PT exercise that improves adherence, reduces clinician burden, and lowers healthcare costs for employers, providers, and insurers.

• CIPRA.ai (San Diego, CA) 

CIPRA.ai provides AI-driven precision chronic care and scalable patient engagement to improve outcomes in hypertension, diabetes, and other cardiometabolic diseases.

• FEYENALLY (Łódź, Poland)

FEYENALLY’s AI-powered smartphone app enables eye tests without any special hardware and specialists.

• Mindframe (London, UK)

Mindframe is an AI companion that helps therapists improve patient outcomes by enabling engaging, personalized care between sessions.

• StatPoint Medical (Washington, DC)

StatPoint Medical has combined top clinicians, an ever-growing list of diagnostics and interventions, and same-day response to enable hospital-level care in the home.  

• TrackiMed (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

TrackiMed is building an AI virtual assistant to automate surgical items counting, monitoring & documentation in ORs.

• Unephra (San Jose, CA)

Unephra provides physiology-based care with passive urine monitoring for hypertension and heart failure management. 

• URBANDATALAB (Seoul, South Korea)

URBANDATALAB has created the first AI-powered multiomics platform and is revolutionizing cancer diagnostics and drug discovery.

• Valene Health (New York, NY)

Valene provides an agentic AI platform that automates clinical and operational workflows for healthcare organizations.

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