San Francisco Startups List

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54 health and wellness Startups View all

Spire - medical devices consumer electronics health and wellness Wearables

Spire

Wearable for health and productivity that tracks state of mind, breath and activity.
Spire builds respiration sensing wearables that take bio-sensing beyond step tracking. Our sensor continuously and accurately tracks respiratory parameters (such as inhalation and exhalation time, apneic events, etc.) and activity (steps, gait, posture) in realtime, ...

Lively - health and wellness baby boomers quantified self elder care

Lively

Reimagining independently living with technology
Lively is reimagining the medical alert business and in the process, allowing older adults to live independently and safely. Everyone can now rest easy and "Live their Life" Remember that old commercial "Help I've Fallen and Cannot Get Up". Lively has revolutionized ...

Alt12 Apps - mobile social media parenting health and wellness

Alt12 Apps

Health + Social + Mobile
Alt12 Apps creates apps that enable women and parents to easily capture and share life’s memorable moments and stages, from pregnancy planning to parenting – all on their mobile phone. Primary offerings: Interactive Health: Telemetry, device notifications, rich ...

Wello - consumer internet fitness marketplaces health and wellness

Wello

Personal training anytime, anywhere
Wello connects consumers with fitness professionals over LIVE, INTERACTIVE video for individual and group workout sessions. Imagine working out with a personal trainer in your living room using just your laptop or tablet. Wello matches clients with the right ...

YogaTrail - marketplaces freemium health and wellness Yoga

YogaTrail

The World's Yoga Network
YogaTrail is a yoga network where people find, follow, and connect with yoga teachers, studios, and yoga retreats. Right now, millions of people rely on word of mouth to find their yoga classes and instructors - and knowing when and where their instructors will ...

Fitbit - hardware fitness personal health health and wellness

Fitbit

Be healthier and more active with Fitbit. Track daily activity, calories burned, sleep & weight. Upload wirelessly & see progress on mobile and online dashboard. Log food & more.

Sano - personal health health and wellness mobile health

Sano

API for the Bloodstream
We're developing a powerful mobile health monitoring platform that will reveal new insights about stage-zero care. The company's first product is a wearable sensor for the continuous detection and wireless transmission of metabolic data. Sano is liberating this ...

Cake Health - health care personal health health and wellness health and insurance

Cake Health

Track and Optimize Your Healthcare
Cake Health is a website for families and individuals with frequent medical bills to easily manage their healthcare plan, claims, and bills. After logging in and connecting to your plan account, users immediately see their out-of-pocket spending, the state of deductibles ...

Hint Water - consumer goods lifestyle products health and wellness

Hint Water

Hint helps people drink more water rather than beverages with added junk.
Hint is the leading unsweetened flavored water. Hint has delicious fruit essence but no calories, no sugar, no diet sweeteners, and no preservatives. Hint is all natural, non-GMO, vegan and gluten free. More than ever, consumers want to be drinking more water ...

MyFitnessPal - fitness personal health health and wellness mobile health

MyFitnessPal

Nutrition and fitness tracking
MyFitnessPal is a free, comprehensive nutrition and fitness system that makes it easy for you to attain your fitness goals and live healthier. Take advantage of MyFitnessPal’s precise, personalized & powerful tools, like our vast meal database of over 5 million ...

Unwind Me - marketplaces personal health health and wellness

Unwind Me

Massage Made Simple: The best therapists, straight to you, at an affordable price (YC S14)
Unwind Me is the easiest way to book & receive a high-quality, professional massage. For customers, we’re improving the accessibility of massage: simplified booking and payment (via online/mobile), appointments when and where you want (in-home), a lower price ...

Calm - mobile personal health health and wellness

Calm

unlocking inner peace
Calm is working to bring the amazing benefits of meditation to a busy world. Web: http://www.calm.com iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/calm.com/id571800810 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calm.android&hl=en

Omada Health - education personal health health and wellness

Omada Health

Pioneering Digital Health
1 in 3 Americans has prediabetes. Without intervention, up to 70% will progress to type 2 diabetes. Our flagship program, called Prevent, intervenes at the right moment and in the right way to help people avoid doing so. Based on the landmark NIH-sponsored Diabetes ...

6SensorLabs - mobile health care consumer goods health and wellness

6SensorLabs

trust your food
6SensorLabs believes that everyone has the right to feel safe and confident every time they eat. We're building products creating food transparency, enabling people to trust their food. There are 15M people in the US with food allergies, resulting in 200K hospital ...

Pact - mobile fitness health and wellness mobile health

Pact

Behavioral economics to motivate healthy goals
Pact is a mobile consumer health and fitness startup that conquers excuses with $$$ as a motivator! Members make a Pact of how many days a week they want to exercise, or goals they have about healthy eating habits. To make goals more interesting, members decide ...

Sensentia - health care information technology personal health health and wellness mobile health

Sensentia

Our artificial Intelligence answers people's healthcare questions.
Sensentia’s first product is an Automated Inquiry System that enables members and providers to verify benefits for health services online or through mobile devices by entering questions in natural language. The system has been proven to be more accurate (>95%) ...

Feast - education food and beverages health and wellness cooking

Feast

Become a Cook in 30 Days
Feast has a simple mission: to help people become cooks. Today, people don't need fancy recipes or culinary schools, they're just looking to make cooking a regular part of their life. The Feast Bootcamp goes beyond just teaching people how to cook and helps them ...

Rallyon - enterprise software neuroscience corporate wellness health and wellness

Rallyon

Zenefits for enterprise health
We're like Zenefits for enterprise health. HR teams with 1,000+ employees use Rallyon to automate and personalize health programs. Employees have unique health needs. Rallyon makes personalizing their health programs as easy as ordering a coffee. We built Rallyon ...

LivBlends - food and beverages health and wellness

LivBlends

The Nespresso machine for smoothies.
LivBlends is the "Nespresso machine for smoothies." The single serve pods come pre-packaged with fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts - insert a pod into the machine, blend and you're ready to go. No need to source, clean, cut and measure ingredients. LivBlends is ...

Medko - health care doctors health and wellness psychology

Medko

The World's Doctor-Patient Marketplace
The World's Doctor-Patient Marketplace – where a patient can find the right doctor anywhere in the world. Much like an Airbnb for international healthcare. Thousands of doctor specialty/city combinations- you can message the doctor with questions and book an ...

Zipongo - mobile enterprise software food and beverages health and wellness

Zipongo

Prescription for Healthy Living (Personalized Mobile Meal Plan & Grocery List you'll Love)
Free: Web & Mobile shopping list on healthy GO foods with prices and discounts from all major grocers across US Basic (for health plans): Co-branded with reporting and personalized communications campaigns Premium (for large employers): Personalized Meal Planning ...

Lantern - health care health and wellness psychology mobile health

Lantern

Mental health on demand
Lantern makes mental health more accessible and affordable. We do this by delivering you a personalized program coached by a licensed professional to strengthen your emotional well-being. Our programs address issues like anxiety, stress, sleep issues, depression ...

Sessions - fitness personal health health and wellness mobile health

Sessions

Behavioral Prescriptions for Weight Loss & Inactivity
Sessions is a behavioural health and wellness company delivering proven behavioral health programs to help people improve their fitness and lose weight. Each Sessions program is tailored to the unique challenges faced by each individual, helping them learn skills ...

Fitt - mobile fitness consumer electronics health and wellness

Fitt

It pays to be healthy
Fi.tt is a health and fitness program that motivates and rewards individuals to be healthy. Fi.tt connects to activity trackers and mobile apps to motivate users to move just a little bit more...... Now it really pays to be healthy. We combine both a incentive ...

Human - health and wellness mobile health lifestyle Social

Human

The world is your gym.
Best of App Store 2014 - http://blog.human.co/posts/best-of-2014.html Human tracks all your activity and motivates you to move more. We use location and motion sensors to track your daily behavior and learn who you are. Human gently nudges you to make the right ...

Massive Health - health and wellness diabetes interface design

Massive Health

Using mobile applications and social leverage / games to monitor and control diabetes
We're focused on helping people get and stay healthy. We make it easy for diabetics to test and analyze blood glucose and health information using their smartphones, with game mechanics and social networks to reward frequent glucose testing, eating healthy, and ...

CrowdMed - health care crowdsourcing software health and wellness

CrowdMed

CrowdMed empowers anyone to solve medical mysteries.
CrowdMed harnesses the wisdom of crowds to collaboratively solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. The company offers individuals, insurance providers, and self-insured corporate customers the ability to more quickly diagnose ...

Keas - enterprise software human resources health and wellness

Keas

Engagement platform that drives health behavior change

Vitagene - health care personal health health and wellness dietary supplements

Vitagene

high quality supplements tailored to your genetics, medical history and needs.
Vitagene, personalized supplements designed around your genetics, lab results and health history to maximize your bodies performance and nutritional balance. How it works: 1. Your Information - You will get a DNA kit at home. Our platform will ask you about your ...

Grand Rounds - health care health care information technology corporate wellness health and wellness

Grand Rounds

Effortless access to world-class care.
Everyone gets sick, but not all of us have equal access to state-of-the-art care. Grand Rounds levels the playing field. We connect patients to recognized experts from the top medical institutions. Founded by an academic physician from Stanford University, Grand ...

Dreem - neuroscience consumer electronics health and wellness Wearables

Dreem

The first active wearable device that makes your sleep better.
Dreem Headband is the first active wearable that makes your sleep better. Based on a stimulation process coming from innovative research work in neurosciences, Dreem Headband augments the duration and the quality of deep sleep, a particular sleep stage where crucial ...

MyHealthTeams - consumer internet social media health care health and wellness

MyHealthTeams

Facebook-Meets-Yelp for Chronic Health Communities
50% of Americans have a chronic health condition. When you are diagnosed with a disease, it should be easy find others in your shoes and learn from them, but it's not. We solve that with condition-specific social networks where it's easy to find referrals, advice ...

BrainBot - consumer electronics health and wellness sensors Wearables

BrainBot

Fitbit for mental health
BrainBot is a wearable biosensor that helps you stay calm and relaxed. Our patent-pending technology can alleviate stress, anxiety and depression, in many cases better than an SSRI.

Omies - mobile fitness health and wellness

Omies

Technology for the modern yogi
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/omies-yoga-with-friends/id673465209

Pacifica Labs - mobile personal health corporate wellness health and wellness

Pacifica Labs

Live Happier. Daily tools for anxiety based on CBT & Mindfulness.
Pacifica launched in late January and has brought in over 200k organic registrations. This growth is indicative of a general movement; more and more people are looking for new ways to improve their daily lives. Fitness is no longer just about our physical wellbeing. ...

MoveMeFit - fitness personal health health and wellness exercise

MoveMeFit

Fitness Optimized For You
Get and stay fit with a completely new fitness experience that’s optimized just for you. We make fitness simple, effective and fun. It’s time to get results! GET INSPIRED Make your workouts more effective by changing them up. Get fit with thousands of online ...

myMedScore - health care health care information technology personal health health and wellness

myMedScore

Real-time health care engagement scoring. 215MM MedScores calculated to date!
Summary: MedScores-as-a-Service (MSaas) are the ultimate cloud-administered bad debt busters for doctors and hospitals. Problem: Did you know that underinsured Americans default on 60% of their healthcare bills? Doctors and hospitals do. In fact, these parties ...

Ritual - fitness personal health health and wellness Consumer

Ritual

SoulCycle of yoga
Ritual is the ultimate yoga experience. It fuses the business model of SoulCycle, the culture of lululemon athletica, the pioneering benefits package of Google, and the market disruption of Uber. Ritual will integrate the ancient tradition of yoga with the evolved ...

Cardiio - personal health health and wellness mobile health

Cardiio

Software that turns ordinary cameras into biosensors.
Cardiio provides software that turns ordinary cameras into biosensors, allowing people to use the mobile devices they already own to gain insight and take charge of their wellbeing. Check out our brand new iOS app at: http://app.cardiio.com

SenseLabs - sports neuroscience health and wellness quantified self

SenseLabs

Higher Performing Brains
SenseLabs produces Versus: a wearable hardware + apps + cloud solution for training peak brain performance. Versus measures and trains the performance of the brain— to help people assert impulse control, increase focus, manage stress, handle stress, improve recovery, ...

Cognitive Health Innovations - personal health health and wellness psychology medical professionals

Cognitive Health Innovations

Web/mobile solutions for mental health: for therapists and their clients
Cognitive Health Innovations offers the first clinically-validated web and mobile platform for therapists to better help their clients. We integrate training on proven psychotherapeutic techniques, tools for users to implement those techniques, and secure messaging ...

Prevently - health care health care information technology health and wellness mobile health

Prevently

Making the world a healthier and more connected place.
Prevently.com provides 4 products and services. 1) Health Content: Prevently will have content from Harvard Medical School Health Publications as well as from it's own network of thousands of freelance writers. 2) Health Products: Prevently sells healthy/organic ...

Couplewise - health care education health and wellness psychology

Couplewise

Saving & Strengthening Couple/Partner Relationships: All relationships Can Be Better!
Pioneering the next stage after dating sites: Whereas Match.com helps millions of couples each year get together; CoupleWise aims to be the app platform of choice to help those millions & millions more STAY together & thrive together. 90% of 203 couples surveyed/interviewed ...

ollo wearables - telecommunications health care information technology health and wellness elder care

ollo wearables

Keep your family in the loop with ollo’s wearable smartphone
We created a wearable smartphone for healthier, safer families. We call the device Loop. The cloud-based care system constantly monitors your loved one’s health and well-being. The wearer controls the device with their voice, and the family can control it with ...

Blueboard - health and wellness lifestyle employer benefits programs incentives

Blueboard

Awesome Employee Rewards & Recognition
The Blueboard rewards platform allows companies to reward their employees to curated experiences and activities with the click of a button – things like skydiving, wine tasting, massage and mixology. Our clients love the fact that we've made memorable and meaningful ...

Fooducate - consumer internet mobile mobile coupons health and wellness

Fooducate

Weight watchers for the new generation
* Fooducate is a food recommendation engine: 1. empowers people to choose healthier groceries at the supermarket. 2. allows brands to communicate with consumers at the point of decision. * Phase one: 5 star iPhone app, 500k downloads: http://bit.ly/fdctapp 1. ...

Castlight Health - technology health and wellness

Castlight Health

Enabling employers to deliver world-class health care benefits. Empowering employees to get superior outcomes for themselves and their families.

FitStar - mobile fitness health and wellness

FitStar

Adaptive fitness applications
FitStar is building a next-generation fitness platform that inspires millions of people to get fit and live healthier lives. The hit personal fitness app and recipient of an Apple Editor’s Choice Award, FitStar: Personal Trainer is a video-based app built on an ...

tinyRx - mobile health care mobile commerce health and wellness

tinyRx

the pharmacy in your pocket
The world has changed. Healthcare has not. We are building a product that is every bit as good as what we’ve come to expect from companies like Apple, Uber and AirBnB. We believe that a world-class experience does not have to be attached to premium pricing and ...

Topic - mobile marketplaces events health and wellness

Topic

Eventbrite for rec sports
Topic is an app focused on making it easier for people to do sports, starting with discovering the best sports games and leagues nearby. Have more than 30 000 sports games worldwide. Discover and RSVP in two taps. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/topic-app/id852138771

Vint - mobile fitness health and wellness

Vint

UBER for PERSONAL TRAINING
Vint is Uber for Personal Training. By providing you with a dedicated team of trainers to get you in shape at times and locations that work for your everyday life we simply eliminate all excuses for not doing your workouts. Vint is the only peer-2-peer sourced ...

Thistle - retail food and beverages health and wellness subscription businesses

Thistle

Healthy Food on Demand
Combining the ease of Munchery/Sprig with the much better business model of Blue Apron Thistle makes eating nutritious, organic and local foods incredibly convenient and accessible. We believe that by removing the major existing hurdles to consumers (no time ...

ChickRx - marketplaces communities women-focused health and wellness

ChickRx

Wellness Advice & Coaching
Women constantly seek advice on things like weight loss, skincare, relationships, sex, anxiety, etc. - it's an everyday behavior. But instead of talking to friends, which doesn't provide anonymity or the best information, they should be able to connect with the ...

Babycenter - parenting health and wellness curated web

Babycenter

Find information from BabyCenter on pregnancy, children's health, parenting & more, including expert advice & weekly newsletters that detail your child's development.

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