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Winter 2024-25: Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

January 30, 2025

Over the last few months, 29 startups became part of the MATTER community as Select members. Our new members span different areas of healthcare, from digital health to medical devices and more.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can learn more about our membership options here. You can also view our innovation challenges here.

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MATTER Startup Shoutouts: Q4 2024

January 16, 2025

Every quarter, we recognize startups from the MATTER community and their accomplishments as they build new solutions that are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives. Some highlights include:

Nine startups secured more than $40 million in funding from venture capital and grants. Ten startups created impactful partnerships with leading industry organizations like the C…

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Startup Spotlight: Lura Health

November 26, 2024

How Lura Health is revolutionizing health monitoring with non-invasive, saliva-based wearables.

Lura Health is pioneering a new era of chronic disease monitoring with medical-grade, non-invasive wearables, which monitor biomarkers in saliva instead of blood. Through their salivary sensing platform, Lura Health provides a non-invasive, pain-free alternative to traditional blood or ISF (intersti…

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Fall 2024: Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

October 24, 2024

Recently, 28 startups became part of the MATTER community as Select members. Our new members span different areas of healthcare, from maternal health to medical devices to artificial intelligence (AI) and more.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can learn more about our membership options here. You can also view our innovation challenges here.

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MATTER Startup Shoutouts: Fall 2024

October 21, 2024

Every day, innovators across the MATTER community are building new solutions that accelerate innovation, advance care and improve lives. Over the last three months, MATTER startups secured funding, fostered impactful partnerships, received FDA approval and more.

There’s no shortage of good news to celebrate in the MATTER community. Learn more about our collective accomplishments below.

Five…

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