StartUp Health Welcomes First Five Type 1 Diabetes Startups into T1D Moonshot Fellowship

Meet the Health Transformers who joined Health Transformer University in order to speed up progress on the prevention, management, and cure of Type 1 diabetes.

StartUp Health recently announced a program-related investment (PRI) by The Helmsley Charitable Trust to provide education, support, and investment to scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators who are working on the prevention, management, and cure of Type 1 diabetes (T1D). The PRI puts significant firepower behind StartUp Health’s T1D Moonshot, a bold new initiative to organize entrepreneurs, innovators, philanthropists, institutions, industry leaders, and families in order to collaborate to develop and scale breakthrough T1D innovation.

With Helmsley’s philanthropic support, 25 to 30 early-stage T1D startups may be selected by StartUp Health to participate for three years in the T1D track of Health Transformer University, StartUp Health’s education program for healthcare innovators. This entrepreneurial mastery program and lifelong learning community is for ambitious founders and funders who are working together to solve the biggest health challenges of our time.

We are pleased to introduce the first five companies selected into the program below. StartUp Health’s call for innovation remains open as we seek additional founders working to improve the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes.

Journey Biosciences is on a mission to fundamentally improve diabetes care. Driven by science, the company develops predictive screening tools that help proactively detect, manage, and prevent diabetes-related complications.

Health Transformers: Adam Graybill, CEO & Co-founder; Paul Beisswenger, MD, CSO & Co-founder
Location: Cleveland, OH
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enhance-d is committed to changing the status-quo by enhancing diabetes care through a digital self-management experience. The company combines real-time diagnostics across every aspect of the digital diabetes experience with AI-powered analytics and visualizations to see, diagnose, and explain glucose management.

Health Transformers: Federico Fontana, PhD, CEO & Co-founder; Fabio Saviozzi, CCO & Co-founder; Sam Scott, PhD, CSO & Co-founder; Felipe Mattioni Maturana, PhD, CTO & Co-founder
Location: Bern, Switzerland
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Undermyfork keeps track of how specific meals affect your diabetes to help you get it right and adjust your lifestyle according to your body data. What you eat is the cornerstone of your diabetes management; the company keeps track of how specific meals affect your Time in Range.

Health Transformers: Mike Ushakov, CEO & Co-founder; Eugene Molodkin, Co-founder
Location: Hermosa Beach, CA
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Rezq Bio is an early-stage biotech company that seeks to cure Type 1 diabetes (T1D) and other localized autoimmune conditions. The company’s lead asset is a phase 1b/2a ready dendritic cell therapy that treats early-onset Type 1 diabetes.

Health Transformer: Arjun Hattiangadi, CEO
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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DreaMed Diabetes is on a moonshot mission to create a world where everyone has access to expert care. Using data, the company provides cutting-edge diabetes technology for insulin treatment optimization.

Health Transformer: Eran Atlas, CEO & Co-founder
Location: Petah Tikva, Israel
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Call for T1D Innovation

Are you a scientist or innovator focused on T1D innovation who would benefit from education about how to navigate and build a company that will be successful in attracting mission-aligned capital, customers, and collaborators to pursue scientific discoveries in the field of Type 1 Diabetes? Learn more and apply for a T1D Fellowship.

Become a Health Moonshot Champion

Health moonshots are fueled by passionate families, foundations, and industry organizations committed to achieving health moonshots. Learn how you can join other champions of the T1D Moonshot or one of our other global health moonshots.

Passionate about breaking down health barriers? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our Health Equity Moonshot.

Funders: Learn how you can become a Health Moonshot Champion and invest in Health Transformers.

Founders: Don’t make the journey alone. Learn how Health Transformer University fuels your health moonshot.

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