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Medicast

House call doctors on demand. Acquired in 2016 by Providence St. Joseph Health.

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Techstars
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #3884

House call doctors on demand. Acquired in 2016 by Providence St. Joseph Health.

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High Signal interpretation

Medicast is classified as Healthcare from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Medicast

Healthcare · 5 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Adomo Health

match 33

Adomo Health enables doctors to conveniently send advanced diagnostic testing such as x-ray, ultrasound, and EKG to be done on-demand in patients' homes, reducing the need for unnecessary emergency room visits.

shared product terms: doctor, demand, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Techstars

Vena Vitals

match 24

Vena Vitals makes a small sticker that monitors blood pressure continuously. We've shown that it works in the operating room and is as accurate as the best tools doctors have today, at a fraction of the cost. We're a team of health tech scientists with multiple past startups and exits, and we've built products that have scaled to over 2M users.

shared product terms: doctor, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare

Shape (ShapeScale)

match 24

Shape is a health tech startup based in San Francisco, California. We are backed by Y Combinator and the company is led by experienced hardware serial entrepreneurs. Shape has designed a product called ShapeScale. ShapeScale is transforming the way we measure our health goals by enabling you to visualize yourself in 3D and see where you have been losing fat and gaining muscle.

shared product terms: call, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare

Habit Labs

match 24

Habit Labs is a social health software startup formed in 2011 via a merger of Contagion Health (founded by Jen McCabe) and Health Month (founded by Buster Benson). Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Habit Labs is building a behavior change platform called Budge.

shared product terms: call, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare

BIOS Health

match 24

BIOS Health was previously called Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems (CBAS) and focused on prosthetic neural interfaces as a first market. Now we use

shared product terms: call, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare