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Halcyon’s Health vertical empowers entrepreneurs creating breakthroughs in medical technology, healthcare delivery, and initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes—shaping the future of global health.
Halcyon delivered our inaugural Health Fellowship in 2024, supporting eight ventures through an immersive eight-week in-person residency in Washington, DC with expert training, mentorship, technical support, and more. Our second iteration of the program successfully ran from February through April 2025.
In Health, we tailor our curriculum and partnerships to the realities of building in complex health startups. Skill series and office hours emphasize topics like working with providers and payors, navigating healthcare regulation and compliance, data privacy and cybersecurity, grantwriting for health ventures, and AI considerations in healthcare. We actively engage partners such as health systems, payors, and strategic advisors to help founders understand reimbursement pathways, pilot design, and evidence requirements, and to open doors to potential clinical and distribution partners.
HealthLink360 is an AI-powered health platform that uses smartphone sensors and predictive analytics to identify health risks early. With biometric monitoring, lifestyle tracking, and culturally aware insights, they empower users—especially underserved populations—to take control of their health, offering proactive wellness management and early disease prevention.
The dream of Korion Health is to provide a toolkit of digital health devices that enable patients to conduct basic health examinations from the convenience and comfort of their own home. Their first product, an electronic stethoscope, is focused on improving access to heart screenings. Heart disease is the #1 killer in the world, yet according to the World Health Organization, up to 80% of these deaths could be prevented through early detection and disease management. However, many patients face barriers to physically making it into a doctor’s office to get screenings. Telemedicine has the potential to bridge many of these gaps, yet the inability to perform a physical exam from home dramatically reduces its effectiveness. Korion Health’s affordable and intuitive electronic stethoscope + guided user interface is ultra patient-focused and addresses these issues by allowing anyone to get heart and lung sound screenings at their own convenience, even if they don’t have a medical background.
basys.ai is a prior authorization and utilization management company using generative AI to flatten the healthcare cost curve for health plans and members. basys.ai has a cutting-edge, patent-pending policy encoding and prior auth matching engine which distinguishes it from its competitors both in accuracy and agility. Its algorithm has been trained on a diverse dataset of over 10 million patient medical and claims records from Mayo Clinic, enabling accuracy across specialties and disease areas. basys.ai has been featured by AHIP, TechCrunch, and TEDx, and has support from Mayo Clinic, Eli Lilly & Co, and national and regional health plans.
Greens Health empowers underserved patients with uncontrolled blood sugars to improve medication adherence through personalized treatment plans addressing nutrition literacy and social determinants of health. With culturally competent telehealth services, including diabetes education and nutrition therapy, it enhances clinician efficiency by providing a clinical team and actionable insights integrated into EHR workflows.
Canopie is a maternal health platform focused on prevention and early intervention to address the most common and costly complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Canopie’s platform offers 1:1 preventive counseling and coaching by perinatal health clinicians, asynchronous customized programs, virtual classes and support groups, and monitoring throughout pregnancy and postpartum. Canopie partners with health plans, health systems, and Departments of Health to deliver equitable, evidence-based, and compassionate support.
EqualityMD is changing how the underserved LGBTQ+ community (~30M Americans, $216B TAM) perceives and receives healthcare.
The LGBTQ+ community is a NIH “Health Disparity Population” and suffers from systemic discrimination from within the medical community. 1 in 3 experience discrimination in a clinical setting, causing 1 in 4 to never seek care. This harms entire communities and forces health systems, payors, and employers to endure undue clinical, economic, and operational burdens.
EqualityMD’s go-to-market LGBTQ+ telehealth product will connect patients to culturally competent mental health and primary care providers and offer access to 1,000+ prescriptions (2024-2026).
Their inclusive, virtual-first healthcare and data analytics platform will enable patients to enjoy culturally competent care on their terms while delivering powerful new insights about America’s most under-measured patient population to health systems, payors, and employers. These novel insights can help increase patient engagement, improve patient outcomes, reduce financial/operational burdens on health systems and payors, and foster inclusive corporate cultures (2026+).
EqualityMD is empowering LGBTQ+ patients—which includes other underserved demographics ranging from racial minorities to military veterans—to become the superheroes of their own healthcare stories through agency, dignity, and respect while restoring humanity to the entire healthcare experience.
Gumbo is an AI-powered digital health platform designed to eliminate language barriers for patients with language access challenges. Gumbo delivers culturally sensitive health information and care instructions in multiple languages to ensure patients can easily understand critical health information, adhere to treatment plans, and navigate the healthcare system.
Oben Health is dedicated to reducing the $300 billion burden of cardiovascular disease and improving healthcare access and outcomes for marginalized patient populations. Oben Health has created an AI-enabled platform that delivers healthcare in barbershops and salons. This platform seamlessly integrates clinical screenings, SDOH, health coaching, and treatment, while also supporting team-based care, coordination, and population health management through interoperability and data-driven analytics.
Health Impact
Halcyon defines and evaluates ventures based on their measurable impact in health, which refers to improved health outcomes for underserved populations through increased access to healthcare services, strengthened disease prevention efforts, accessible medical technologies, efficient healthcare delivery, and more, ultimately working to close critical gaps in healthcare accessibility and quality.