The San Francisco Bay Area’s healthtech market spans clinical hiring, women’s health, chronic disease management, and biotechnology. The founders in this group come from different parts of that landscape, but all are building companies tied to how care is delivered, how patients are supported, and how healthcare systems operate. Together, they reflect the range of Bay Area healthtech in 2026.
Iman Abuzeid
Co-founder & CEO — Incredible Health
Iman Abuzeid is the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health. She is a physician by training, and her background has given her a direct view into the staffing pressures facing hospitals and clinicians. Her public profile is closely tied to the effort to improve how healthcare workers find permanent roles and how hospitals hire more efficiently.
Incredible Health is based in San Francisco and operates an AI-native career marketplace for permanent healthcare workers. The company says its platform is used by more than 1 million U.S. healthcare workers and 1,500 healthcare employers, with hospitals reducing hiring times for permanent nurses from an average of 86 days to under 20.
Janice Chen
Co-founder, CSO & President, Research — Mammoth Biosciences
Janice Chen is the co-founder, chief scientific officer, and president of research at Mammoth Biosciences. Her background includes a PhD in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley, where she worked in the lab of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna. That scientific foundation has made her one of the more visible Bay Area biotech founders working at the intersection of gene editing and diagnostics.
Mammoth Biosciences is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is building CRISPR-based technologies for gene-editing therapies and diagnostics. The company has positioned itself around discovering novel CRISPR systems and using them to expand how biology can be read and edited.
Julia Hu
Founder — Lark Health
Julia Hu founded Lark Health after managing her own chronic disease since childhood. Her story is closely tied to the company’s mission, with public bios describing her goal of making healthcare more personal, compassionate, and continuously available.
Lark Health is based in Mountain View and focuses on chronic disease prevention and management through AI-enabled coaching and digital care. The company was founded in 2011 with experts from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, and it has built around 24/7 support for conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.
Joanna Strober
Co-founder & CEO — Midi Health
Joanna Strober is the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health. Before starting the company, she founded Kurbo, a digital therapeutic for childhood obesity that was later acquired by Weight Watchers. Her more recent work has centered on women’s health, especially care during perimenopause, menopause, and midlife.
Midi Health is based in the Bay Area and operates a virtual care platform for women in perimenopause, menopause, and related midlife health issues. By late 2025, the company had raised a $50 million Series C, reported a $150 million revenue run rate, and said it was serving around 20,000 women weekly.
Carolyn Witte
Co-founder — Tia
Carolyn Witte is a co-founder of Tia. She started the company with Felicity Yost in San Francisco in 2017, and her profile has been closely associated with building a more integrated model of women’s healthcare. Public interviews have framed her work around improving how women access primary care, gynecology, mental health, and related services in one system.
Tia is a San Francisco women’s health company built around coordinated care for women across primary care and adjacent specialties. The company has positioned itself around streamlining women’s medicine and creating a more connected care experience than the fragmented model many patients are used to.
Where Bay Area Women in HealthTech Are Building
These five founders represent different parts of the Bay Area healthtech market. Incredible Health is focused on healthcare hiring, Mammoth Biosciences on CRISPR-based biotech, Lark Health on chronic disease management, Midi Health on menopause and midlife care, and Tia on women’s primary-care delivery.
That range reflects how broad the category has become. Bay Area healthtech now includes workforce platforms, biotech infrastructure, virtual care, and software designed around long-term patient support rather than one-off interactions.
The Bay Area’s innovation story also extends into artificial intelligence. Read the San Francisco Bay Area Women AI Founders to Watch in 2026 for another look at the women building the region’s next generation of AI companies.
