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Starling (YC W22) — AI enabling digital urine diagnostics in the home

Starling is building a urine diagnostic remote patient monitoring platform that seamlessly integrates into anyone's bathroom routine. By detecting early changes in a patient's urine using our toilet indwelling mass spectroscopy device, our platform is aiming to prevent hospitalizations from numerous conditions like recurrent UTIs, BPH exacerbations, or diabetes.

Starling is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI enabling digital urine diagnostics in the home. The founders listed are Drew Hendricks (Founder), Hannah McKenney (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 8, 2022).

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Starling

New accelerator entry · 2022-02-08 · the record

Winter 2022
batch
5
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2022
Announced2022-02-08
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size5
IndustryHealthcare
Sub-industryHealthcare -> Diagnostics
SectorsMachine Learning, Medical Devices, Digital Health
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedHouston, TX, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://starlingmedical.com/
Previously known asStarling Medical

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Starling is building a urine diagnostic remote patient monitoring platform that seamlessly integrates into anyone's bathroom routine. By detecting early changes in a patient's urine using our toilet indwelling mass spectroscopy device, our platform is aiming to prevent hospitalizations from numerous conditions like recurrent UTIs, BPH exacerbations, or diabetes. We do this while creating significant new annual revenues for our clinician partners from remote patient monitoring reimbursements without requiring any significant changes in a staff's day to day schedule.

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