Health & Wellness
A primary internal company segment within Digital Health, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Health & Wellness”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.
YC DATA · 6,287 COMPANIES · OCTOBER 2, 2026
FORMATION · FIRST SURFACED WINTER 2026
Return to SignalDigital Health
COOLED · WINTER 202684% confidenceObserved October 2, 2026Source: YC tagWhisper flagged this 6 months early
The count
0.41×
17/757 → 6/654; -1.33 percentage points of formation share.
S13S16S19S22W25S26
About this formation
Digital Health as a formation label is cooling fast, down to 0.41x, even as its closest statistical neighbors are surging: Healthcare Agents at 4.53x, Telemedicine at 2.78x, Telehealth at 2.37x. The companies still forming under the old banner reveal why the category itself has splintered rather than shrunk. Lucis and Nori are consumer-facing data aggregators, turning blood panels and Apple Health exports into daily guidance, while Kaigo Health, Rovi Health, and ClaimGlide are quietly infrastructural, automating prior authorization, remote Medicare check-ins, and employer-side care navigation. Play Health sits somewhere between the two, building a clinical product for perimenopause but wrapping it in the same consumer software instincts as the coaching apps. What used to get bundled as one "digital health" wave has effectively been absorbed into sharper categories like agents and telemedicine, leaving the residual label to founders building narrow, defensible workflows rather than broad platforms. The timing tracks with the 2023-2024 arrival of GPT-4-class models capable of reasoning over messy clinical text, which made automating things like prior authorization and post-discharge monitoring newly plausible rather than just aspirational.
The companies behind the signal — 6
Winter 2026
ClaimGlide
Included in YC's Digital Health membership during the measured recent window.
Fall 2025
Kaigo Health
Included in YC's Digital Health membership during the measured recent window.
Fall 2025
Play Health
Included in YC's Digital Health membership during the measured recent window.
Fall 2025
Rovi Health
Included in YC's Digital Health membership during the measured recent window.
Fall 2025
Nori
Included in YC's Digital Health membership during the measured recent window.
Spring 2025
Lucis
Included in YC's Digital Health membership during the measured recent window.
Inside Digital Health
Health Tech
A primary internal company segment within Digital Health, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Health Tech”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.
Other / unclassified
Measured-window members of Digital Health that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.
Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?
No comparable outside activity is connected yet.
Related formations
Similarly named categories — not necessarily the same thing
These share a word with “Digital Health” but are tracked as separate categories. The real overlap below is the actual share of Digital Health’s companies also found in that category — not a guess.
Citation
Cambrian Signal, “Digital Health,” publication yc-2026-10-02-semantic-v8, snapshot October 2, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/digital-health