You asked about Medical Devices
26 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 8% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-01 | Building AI therapeutics for physical health conditions like IBS. · mindsethealth.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Automated tooth cutting for dentists using imaging, AI and robotics · perceptive.io | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | AI-powered platform for Accessible and Personalized Breast Health… · isonohealth.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | We make AI technology for Robotic and AR Surgeries · algosurg.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Wearables and AI to predict and prevent sepsis outside the hospital · sepsisscout.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStarling AI enabling digital urine diagnostics in the home · starlingmedical.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Implantable microchips and AI for cattle monitoring · nexa.farm | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Software for medical laboratories and clinics · dashlabs.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Rapid medical data annotation · redbrickai.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | We help medical practices become AI-native · asha.health | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Tiny Edge AI For Tiny Devices · cactuscompute.com | still up |
| 2023-02-26 | docs.getmegaportal.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | First AI-Native Medical Group for Mental Health · allia.health | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCTheora Building medical school for AI Agents · theorahq.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCAluna Data for biomedical AI · alunadata.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI-Powered Medical Billing · quillbills.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCOra AI The AI Platform for Medical Education · oraai.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSemantix AI for medical billing · semantix.ai | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | AI medical summaries in minutes · riskangle.com | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | Voice AI for medical language translation · vocalityhealth.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI Diagnosis of Heart Disease · invisionmedtech.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCTivara The AI workforce for medical groups · tivara.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Building tiny frontier AI models that run on edge devices · stellonlabs.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCHubble AI-native retrieval engine for medical records · hubble.ai | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | AI-Native Medical Billing Services · overdrive.health | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | AI automated prior-auths for private medical practices · claimglide.com | still up |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.