SolComms Research · Q3 2026 edition · 70 US healthtech startups, Series A–C · 12 months to 28 Sep 2026

Five healthtech startups took 36% of all coverage.

We scored 70 Series A–C healthtech startups on their messaging and analyzed a year of their coverage in 75 outlets, from national news to health trades.

Stories per startup in the 75 outlets, ranked
020406080StoriesMedian 5 storiesDoctronic · 81 stories · score 9b.well Connected Health · 43 stories · score 7Trilliant Health · 32 stories · score 11Humata Health · 29 stories · score 11Particle Health · 28 stories · score 8Watershed Health, the top score (16): 5 storiesThe five most covered: 213 of 588 mentions, 36%7 with none 020406080StoriesMedian 5 storiesDoctronic · 81 stories · score 9b.well Connected Health · 43 stories · score 7Trilliant Health · 32 stories · score 11Humata Health · 29 stories · score 11Particle Health · 28 stories · score 8Watershed Health, the top score (16): 5 storiesThe five most covered: 213 of 588 mentions, 36%7 with none 020406080StoriesMedian 5 storiesDoctronic 81 · score 9b.well 43 · score 7Trilliant 32 · score 11Humata 29 · score 11Particle 28 · score 8Top score: Watershed (16), 5 storiesFive most covered: 36% of 588 mentions7 with none
  1. Doctronic: 81 stories, message score 9 of 20
  2. b.well Connected Health: 43 stories, message score 7 of 20
  3. Trilliant Health: 32 stories, message score 11 of 20
  4. Humata Health: 29 stories, message score 11 of 20
  5. Particle Health: 28 stories, message score 8 of 20
  6. Artisight: 24 stories, message score 8 of 20
  7. Counsel Health: 20 stories, message score 14 of 20
  8. Nourish: 18 stories, message score 11 of 20
  9. Berry Street: 17 stories, message score 11 of 20
  10. Wheel: 17 stories, message score 7 of 20
  11. Documo: 14 stories, message score 12 of 20
  12. 9amHealth: 14 stories, message score 9 of 20
  13. Reimagine Care: 13 stories, message score 8 of 20
  14. Aradigm: 13 stories, message score 5 of 20
  15. Apella: 12 stories, message score 11 of 20
  16. Rad AI: 12 stories, message score 11 of 20
  17. Rainfall Health: 9 stories, message score 11 of 20
  18. Aligned Marketplace: 8 stories, message score 14 of 20
  19. Arbital Health: 8 stories, message score 12 of 20
  20. Boulder Care: 8 stories, message score 12 of 20
  21. xCures: 8 stories, message score 12 of 20
  22. Weave Bio: 8 stories, message score 10 of 20
  23. Dimer Health: 7 stories, message score 15 of 20
  24. Pear Suite: 7 stories, message score 11 of 20
  25. Metriport: 6 stories, message score 13 of 20
  26. CodaMetrix: 6 stories, message score 12 of 20
  27. Bold: 6 stories, message score 11 of 20
  28. MedScout: 6 stories, message score 11 of 20
  29. Ellipsis Health: 6 stories, message score 9 of 20
  30. Optura: 6 stories, message score 6 of 20
  31. Watershed Health: 5 stories, message score 16 of 20
  32. ReferWell: 5 stories, message score 14 of 20
  33. NeuroFlow: 5 stories, message score 13 of 20
  34. Silna Health: 5 stories, message score 12 of 20
  35. Photon Health: 5 stories, message score 10 of 20
  36. VisualDx: 5 stories, message score 10 of 20
  37. Nayya: 5 stories, message score 9 of 20
  38. Clarium Health: 5 stories, message score 8 of 20
  39. Handl Health: 4 stories, message score 14 of 20
  40. Blueberry Pediatrics: 4 stories, message score 13 of 20
  41. TailorCare: 4 stories, message score 9 of 20
  42. Autonomize AI: 4 stories, message score 8 of 20
  43. Rune Labs: 4 stories, message score 8 of 20
  44. Lucem Health: 4 stories, message score 6 of 20
  45. Conduit Health: 3 stories, message score 13 of 20
  46. Sempre Health: 3 stories, message score 13 of 20
  47. Segmed: 3 stories, message score 12 of 20
  48. Viome Life Sciences: 3 stories, message score 12 of 20
  49. Dyania Health: 3 stories, message score 11 of 20
  50. Prescryptive Health: 3 stories, message score 10 of 20
  51. Alluvium Healthcare: 3 stories, message score 8 of 20
  52. Massive Bio: 2 stories, message score 11 of 20
  53. CancerIQ: 2 stories, message score 9 of 20
  54. Epicore Biosystems: 2 stories, message score 9 of 20
  55. Praia Health: 2 stories, message score 9 of 20
  56. Radial Health: 2 stories, message score 9 of 20
  57. Luminopia: 1 story, message score 11 of 20
  58. Ash Wellness: 1 story, message score 10 of 20
  59. IntusCare: 1 story, message score 10 of 20
  60. Zorro: 1 story, message score 10 of 20
  61. Epitel: 1 story, message score 9 of 20
  62. RhythmScience: 1 story, message score 9 of 20
  63. SonarMD: 1 story, message score 9 of 20
  64. Marvin Behavioral Health: 0 stories, message score 12 of 20
  65. Sequencing.com: 0 stories, message score 11 of 20
  66. Etiometry: 0 stories, message score 9 of 20
  67. Healthie: 0 stories, message score 9 of 20
  68. Nymbl Science: 0 stories, message score 9 of 20
  69. Solv Health: 0 stories, message score 9 of 20
  70. Ember LifeSciences: 0 stories, message score 6 of 20

Each column is one startup; the five most covered and the top score are named. Stories: articles in the 75 outlets naming the company, 28 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2026. A story naming two startups counts for each: 495 stories, 588 mentions. Median 5; 7 with none.

The message score

Three in four startups score 8 to 12 out of 20. Only one scores 16 or more.

We scored each company’s own messaging, from homepage to LinkedIn, on four factors, 0 to 5 each. Of the 70, 29 say plainly what they do (Clarity 4 or more) and 35 explain a specific difference (Differentiation 3 or more). Policy awareness is weakest: 13 score 0.

All 70 scores, out of 20

Average by factor, out of 5

  • Clarity3.1
  • Proof2.7
  • Differentiation2.6
  • Policy awareness1.9

Websites as of 28 Sep and 1 Oct 2026; LinkedIn and X as of 28 to 30 Sep 2026. Top score: Watershed Health, 16.

Message against attention

Coverage followed the money more than the message.

Rank correlation with stories: money raised 0.34, message score 0.09.

6

median stories for the 34 startups scoring 11 or more

4

median stories for the other 36

Clear but unheard: nine startups scoring 11 or more with three stories or fewer

All 70 companies: message score against stories Clear but unheard: score 11–⁠16, 0–⁠3 stories Other companies
051015202530438105101520Invisible0–5 · 1 of 70Muddled6–10 · 35 of 70Competent11–15 · 33 of 70Breaks through16–20 · 1 of 70Clear but unheard · 9Clear and heard · 23Heard but weak · 1 051015202530438105101520Invisible0–5 · 1 of 70Muddled6–10 · 35 of 70Competent11–15 · 33 of 70Breaks through16–20 · 1 of 70Clear but unheard · 9Clear and heard · 23Heard but weak · 1 051015202530438105101520Invisible · 1Muddled · 35Competent · 33Breaks through · 1Clear but unheard · 9Clear and heard · 23Heard but weak · 1

One dot per company; dashed outlines mark the groups. Highest scores 11–⁠16, lowest 5; heard is 5 or more stories, unheard 0–⁠3.

The most covered · 5

They score 7 to 11. Doctronic leads with 81 stories (14% of the total) on a score of 9: clear about what it does, thin on what sets it apart. Regulating AI accounts for 37 of them. b.well, next with 43, doesn’t say what it does in its headline; its coverage leans on partnerships (16) and CMS’s health-data push (13).

Clear and heard · 23

Of the 70, 23 score 11 or more and have five or more stories. Their biggest stories are news they made: R1 buying Humata Health, Nourish’s $100M round, Berry Street’s partnerships with Amazon and Walmart, Trilliant Health’s research on demand and prices.

Heard but weak · 1

Aradigm has the lowest score, 5, and 13 stories. Its headline, “Creating sustainable access to life-saving medicines,” doesn’t say what it sells; its coverage is about who pays for cell and gene therapies.

All 70 companies: scores, stories and reach

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CompanyScoreClarityDifferentiationProofPolicy awarenessStoriesTier 1LinkedInXGroup
Watershed Health165443514,021No account foundClear and heard
Dimer Health154443722,611No account foundClear and heard
Counsel Health14543220812,752803Clear and heard
Aligned Marketplace144433842,765No account foundClear and heard
ReferWell1444335110,1553Clear and heard
Handl Health144334406,818No account foundClear, between the attention bands
Metriport133433624,598332Clear and heard
NeuroFlow1342435210,4221,160Clear and heard
Blueberry Pediatrics135422445,651326Clear, between the attention bands
Conduit Health135323313,282No account foundClear but unheard
Sempre Health135323314,131No account foundClear but unheard
Documo1233421402,618272Clear and heard
Arbital Health123333815,45114Clear and heard
Boulder Care1244228212,736451Clear and heard
xCures123423836,219301Clear and heard
CodaMetrix1242336121,807No account foundClear and heard
Silna Health124143513,595414Clear and heard
Segmed123333305,583606Clear but unheard
Viome Life Sciences1244313021,3157,547Clear but unheard
Marvin Behavioral Health125340008,360No account foundClear but unheard
Trilliant Health11242332820,528455Clear and heard
Humata HealthAcquired by R1, 202611413329116,703No account foundClear and heard
Nourish11512318856,667No account foundClear and heard
Berry Street115132171215,848No account foundClear and heard
Apella1144301244,998No account foundClear and heard
Rad AI11443012542,829No account foundClear and heard
Rainfall Health114124923,1608Clear and heard
Pear Suite113233718,95992Clear and heard
Bold114133635,405No account foundClear and heard
MedScout113242614,632No account foundClear and heard
Dyania Health115330338,250No account foundClear but unheard
Massive Bio1152312246,9781,980Clear but unheard
Luminopia113431104,493240Clear but unheard
Sequencing.com1154200013,4222,685Clear but unheard
Weave Bio102233815,326152Middle of the set
Photon Health104231515,488286Middle of the set
VisualDx103331515,964No account foundMiddle of the set
Prescryptive Health1013423014,073No account foundMiddle of the set
Ash Wellness103223114,177No account foundMiddle of the set
IntusCare1013331013,386No account foundMiddle of the set
Zorro103223104,5369Middle of the set
Doctronic94221812314,0501,924Middle of the set
9amHealth9223214615,407No account foundMiddle of the set
Ellipsis Health933306110,944642Middle of the set
Nayya914225137,245117Middle of the set
TailorCare932134118,53613Middle of the set
CancerIQ922412011,916822Middle of the set
Epicore Biosystems93231206,054No account foundMiddle of the set
Praia Health92430204,169No account foundMiddle of the set
Radial Health93312202,689No account foundMiddle of the set
Epitel92232105,203No account foundMiddle of the set
RhythmScience93222113,28844Middle of the set
SonarMD93123102,381290Middle of the set
Etiometry93132005,016No account foundMiddle of the set
Healthie932310020,3041,550Middle of the set
Nymbl Science91233003,796No account foundMiddle of the set
Solv Health923310012,2782,208Middle of the set
Particle Health84220281711,899620Middle of the set
Artisight823302489,454No account foundMiddle of the set
Reimagine CareAcquired by Cureety, 2026823211344,700No account foundMiddle of the set
Clarium Health83230508,868No account foundMiddle of the set
Autonomize AI812324112,460No account foundMiddle of the set
Rune Labs82141408,214396Middle of the set
Alluvium Healthcare82231302,194No account foundMiddle of the set
b.well Connected Health71123431432,439628Middle of the set
Wheel7412017726,614No account foundMiddle of the set
Optura61320614,151No account foundMiddle of the set
Lucem Health62121423,34060Middle of the set
Ember LifeSciences61320001,409No account foundMiddle of the set
Aradigm511031351,764No account foundHeard but weak

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Press · 347 stories

Medicare’s AI prior-authorization pilot is the running story.

WISeR, Medicare’s AI prior-authorization pilot, runs through the year: vendors picked in November, a lawsuit, reports of delayed care, a House committee’s unanimous vote to block its funding, a failed Senate vote to end it and, in September, documents showing delays and tech failures. One startup is inside the story: Humata Health, a WISeR vendor that R1 agreed to buy in August.

The 19 theme stories about WISeR, by month One storyNames Humata Health

  1. Vendors picked

    Nov 2025

  2. Dec

  3. Jan 2026

  4. Feb

  5. Lawsuit filed

    Mar

  6. Reports of delayed care

    Apr

  7. Democrats force a vote

    May

  8. House committee votes to block it

    Jun

  9. Senate vote to end it fails

    Jul

  10. R1 to buy Humata Health

    Aug

  11. Documents show delays and failures

    Sep
Share of press stories by theme, 12 months 12 monthsAbout WISeRLast 3 months
Payer innovation108 stories, 17 about WISeR31.1%. Last 3 months 27.3%.
AI governance63 stories, 2 about WISeR18.2%. Last 3 months 20.2%.
Cost & revenue59 stories17.0%. Last 3 months 21.2%.
Clinician burnout39 stories11.2%. Last 3 months 7.1%.
Workflow automation34 stories9.8%. Last 3 months 12.1%.
Platform competition7 stories2.0%. Last 3 months 2.0%.
Other and emerging themes37 stories10.7%. Not tracked.
Press stories by outlet tier, of 347

Tier 1 · 11 outlets · Highest AI visibility

141

Tier 2 · 23 outlets · Strong national and trade reach

77

Tier 3 · 20 outlets · Niche authority, cited on sector-specific queries

94

Tier 4 · 18 outlets · High credibility, limited by paywalls or crawler blocking

28

Tier 5 · 3 outlets · Influential with people, rarely cited by AI

7

347 theme stories in the 75 outlets, 28 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2026. Payer innovation covers payment models, prior authorization and Medicare Advantage.

Press against social

Press leads with payers; social leads with burnout.

Burnout’s share runs twice as high on social. There, prior authorization is a fight over denied care: lawmakers, officials and policy groups wrote 27 of its 62 posts.

Share of each surface by theme, on one axis Largest theme on each sideRising: the last 3 months run above the 12-⁠month share
Press · 347 storiesTheme
31.1%Payer innovation
18.2%AI governance
17.0%Cost & revenue
11.2%Clinician burnout
9.8%Workflow automation

Policy

Policy runs through over a third of startup coverage. Few pitch on a policy change.

Of the 495 stories naming a startup, 188 carry a policy term. The two that pitch on a current policy change: Handl Health (price transparency) and Rainfall Health (Medicare’s TEAM model).

The 11 policy groups: share of coverage against homepages that use their terms Press Social Homepages that use its terms

Prior authorization and administrative burden

Press 11.5% · social 1.9% · 1 of 70 homepages uses its terms: CodaMetrix

Value-based care and CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) models

Press 11.2% · social 8.7% · 12 of 70 homepages use its terms

Core policy areas

Press 7.8% · social 4.1% · 10 of 70 homepages use its terms

AI and FDA regulation

Press 2.0% · social 0.7% · 1 of 70 homepages uses its terms: Viome Life Sciences

Interoperability and health data

Press 1.2% · social 0.2% · 2 of 70 homepages use its terms: Documo and xCures

Coverage and benefits

Press 0.9% · social 0.5% · 1 of 70 homepages uses its terms: Zorro

Reimbursement and virtual care

Press 0.6% · social 0.6% · 2 of 70 homepages use its terms: Artisight and NeuroFlow

Clinical trials and life sciences

Press 0.3% · social 0.0% · 2 of 70 homepages use its terms: Rune Labs and Segmed

Pharmacy

Press 0.0% · social 0.1% · 0 of 70 homepages use its terms

Price transparency

Press 0.0% · social 0.0% · 2 of 70 homepages use its terms: Handl Health and Trilliant Health

Fraud, abuse and referrals

Press 0.0% · social 0.0% · 1 of 70 homepages uses its terms: MedScout

Press: 347 theme stories in the 75 outlets. Social: 847 posts. Homepages: all 70, footers included. 87 policy terms in 11 groups, all in Explore the data. 28 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2026.

Where the pitch and the conversation part ways

9 of 14

most-covered startups (13 or more stories) score 2 or less on Policy awareness, as do 41 of all 70.

For the most covered, policy is often the story: 22 of b.well Connected Health’s 43, mostly on CMS’s health-data push; 37 of Doctronic’s 81, on regulating AI; 17 of Particle Health’s 28, led by TEFCA. Their Policy awareness scores: 3, 1 and 0.

1 of 70

homepages leads with AI governance

AI governance is 18.2% of press and 12.4% of social, the one major theme rising on social (15.7% of the last three months; 13.6% on Reddit and X alone). Nearly half its posts are negative. Autonomize AI leads with it, and Optura also carries it.

11 of 70

homepages lead with workflow automation

It leads 11 of the 70 homepages and appears on 17, against 9.8% of press and 7.9% of social: the biggest group of startups sells efficiency into a conversation about payment, prior authorization and trust in AI.

2 of 70

startups come up in 847 social posts on these themes

Clarium Health (2 posts) and Humata Health (1 post). New themes start on social: clinical AI tools have 42 posts against 5 press stories; health workforce, 31 against none.

How startups get covered

Eight of 495 stories say what a product did for a customer.

Lists and roundups add 142, executives’ own articles and interviews 18, research 15. Even the customer results lean on policy: four of the eight are early data from Utah’s pilot of Doctronic’s AI prescribing.

175 of 495

stories naming a startup report a funding round, partnership, launch, acquisition or deployment.

16.7%

of 915 news results for the 70 were press releases or sponsored pages; none counts as coverage. For Massive Bio, 12 of 21 were its own releases.

47

sponsored pages ran in the 75 outlets, 27 in Tier 1. Paid placements don’t count either.

Each square is one story, by what it reported Deal, launch or deployment Customer result Other

Deals, launches and deployments

Funding round 58
Partnership 52
Launch 39
Acquisition 17
Deployment 9
Customer result 8
List or roundup 142
By or with an executive 18
Research 15
Award 7
Other 130

Stories in the 75 outlets naming one of the 70, by what each reported, 28 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2026.

How we measured it

The full method, and every score, story and post

The companies

70 US healthtech startups at Series A to C, from a vetted list of 72.

The message score

Website, LinkedIn and X, scored 0–5 on Clarity, Differentiation, Proof and Policy awareness; read 28 Sep and 1 Oct 2026.

The coverage

28 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2026: stories in 75 outlets, in five tiers by AI visibility, and 847 Reddit, X and LinkedIn posts.

What’s left out

Press releases, sponsored pages, companies’ own channels, off-topic stories, posts that fit no theme and repeated posts.

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