You asked about Health Tech
2,263 people built something like it. 322 are gone.
That is 16% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 250 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCAthelas Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems · athelas.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCH1 Connecting stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem. · h1.co | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible · getreliancehealth.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | A mental health benefits platform for employers. · modernhealth.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | We make robots for biologists. · opentrons.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOphelia Medication & support to beat opioid addiction from home · ophelia.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Private sector Healthcare.gov. · healthsherpa.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCSolugen Decarbonizing the chemicals industry. · solugen.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Modern employee benefits & health savings account (HSA) provider · livelyme.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHumi Payroll, HR, and Health Benefits for Canada's SMB's · humi.ca | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | Tech-powered women's wellness. · bellabeat.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Health insurance for remote teams · safetywing.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | We deliver personalized medicine for neurodegenerative patients · synapticure.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Digitize and Automate Complex Care Workflows · memorahealth.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCFUTURA Digitizing dentistry in LatAm · futuralabs.io | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Africa's #1 healthcare technology provider. · heliumhealth.com | still up |
| 2022-05-27 | oura.gucci.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCamber Admin automation for healthcare · camber.health | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCPicnicAI Intelligence to accelerate human health. · picnic.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCAIOS Building AI-native infrastructure for the next era of care. · aiosmedical.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCInito Enabling better self care with at-home hormone tracking. · inito.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The sleep fitness company. · eightsleep.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Health Insurance for Startups · anglehealth.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Health enterprise API for data on doctors, insurance, costs, & quality · ribbonhealth.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Aviron transforms workouts with game-based exercise machines, making… · avironactive.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Better health insurance for mid-size companies · evryhealth.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes · ansabio.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBBy BBy powders breast milk that's immunologically active & lasts 6 months · bbymilk.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Artificial intelligence for drug discovery. · numerionlabs.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Robotic Automation for cancer diagnostics - Robotic Microscopes &… · morphlelabs.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Using AI to help dementia patients age at home · craniometrix.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | At-Home health monitoring with silicon photonic chips for data centers · siphoxhealth.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDatasaur Datasaur builds private AI/agents for enterprise/government · datasaur.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSaveIN Making private healthcare in India accessible and affordable · savein.money | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLuminate We make cancer care at home possible. · luminatemed.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVitau Subscription pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases in LatAm. · vitau.mx | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | An online provider for greater mental health · meruhealth.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCLygos Lygos engineers yeast to convert sugar into high-value industrial… · lygos.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCOsmind Platform for breakthrough mental health research and treatment · osmind.org | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | RNA medicines for liver diseases · ochre-bio.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | A concierge service for seniors’ rides, meals, meds, home and more. · gogograndparent.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHelpNow India's most reliable Ambulance service. (uber for ambulances) · gethelpnow.in | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world. · voltalabs.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArintra Enterprise-grade AI for revenue assurance · arintra.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Powering scientific outsourcing · scienceexchange.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSully.ai Autonomous team of AI agents that runs the entire hospital operations · sully.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVetRec AI Scribe for veterinarians. Saving time and improving patient care. · vetrec.io | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | Patient engagement for low-income populations · caremessage.org | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Neural interfaces to understand and use nerve data in medicine. · bios.health | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Next generation infectious disease test kits · lucirahealth.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | Personalized drug discovery for blood cancer. · notablelabs.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | Navigating patients to the right place, first time. · healthtech1.uk | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's fastest medicine delivery in just 30 minutes · farmako.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | We grow cells for biotech companies. · culturebiosciences.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.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.