Hiring fastest this week

Net change in open roles over the last 7 days, across the 84 healthcare startups tracked for at least a week. 24 added roles on net, 25 pulled back.

Pulling back this week

What changed this week

Maternity & Women's Health companies added 13 roles on net this week.

Revenue Cycle Management companies pulled back by 29 roles this week, down 8% over the month.

By function, sales marketing roles grew the most over the last 30 days (+44 net, 131 posted against 87 removed).

Category Companies Open Net 7d Net 30d 30d %
Preventive Health Diagnostics 5 314 +4 +66 +27%
Maternity & Women's Health 11 346 +13 +15 +5%
Oncology Care Platform 3 68 0 +4 +6%
AI Clinical Documentation 6 101 +2 +3 +3%
Telehealth Nutrition Counseling 8 131 +8 0 0%
Mental Health / Teletherapy Marketplace 5 259 +9 −4 −2%
Population Health Analytics 12 214 −8 −4 −2%
Practice Management 7 837 −28 −5 −1%
Clinical Decision Support / Prior Auth 3 105 −11 −5 −5%
Health Insurance / InsurTech 5 19 −2 −8 −30%
Revenue Cycle Management 6 626 −29 −57 −8%

Categories with at least 3 tracked companies. 30d % is the month's net change as a share of the category's open roles a month ago.

What this means for job seekers

Hiring velocity

Roles posted and removed per company over the last 30 days. Biggest net moves first; the full table covers every company tracked for at least a month.

Company Open 7d new 30d new 30d removed Net 30d
Ensemble Health 433 58 281 323 −42
HeartFlow 99 15 87 48 +39
Prenuvo 62 13 51 29 +22
Pomelo Care 76 5 28 13 +15
Tebra 13 1 7 20 −13
SmarterDx 4 0 1 12 −11
firsthand 24 3 9 0 +9
Cleerly 21 1 13 6 +7
Thyme Care 48 7 16 10 +6
Freenome 21 2 6 12 −6
Atria Health and Research Institute 92 6 18 23 −5
Cohere Health 77 2 30 35 −5
RevSpring 75 8 30 35 −5
Sidecar Health 8 0 7 12 −5
Neko Health 111 12 41 37 +4
All 46 companies
Company Open 7d new 30d new 30d removed Net 30d
Ensemble Health 433 58 281 323 −42
Neko Health 111 12 41 37 +4
HeartFlow 99 15 87 48 +39
Atria Health and Research Institute 92 6 18 23 −5
Headway 85 11 36 36 0
Spring Health 79 17 43 46 −3
Commure 78 11 31 28 +3
Cohere Health 77 2 30 35 −5
Pomelo Care 76 5 28 13 +15
Nourish 75 17 35 35 0
RevSpring 75 8 30 35 −5
Prenuvo 62 13 51 29 +22
NexHealth 61 1 3 6 −3
Thyme Care 48 7 16 10 +6
Abridge 46 4 17 15 +2
Clipboard 37 5 16 13 +3
Candid Health 36 0 4 6 −2
Function Health 32 5 15 16 −1
firsthand 24 3 9 0 +9
Cleerly 21 1 13 6 +7
Freenome 21 2 6 12 −6
Ambience Healthcare 19 3 5 5 0
Nabla 18 0 7 5 +2
Synapse Health 17 1 11 7 +4
Triomics 16 0 0 2 −2
Tebra 13 1 7 20 −13
Vitalize 13 1 4 0 +4
Suki 11 3 10 10 0
OpenEvidence 10 0 3 1 +2
Parsley Health 8 1 2 3 −1
Sidecar Health 8 0 7 12 −5
Medallion 6 0 3 5 −2
PatientIQ 6 1 1 3 −2
Well 6 1 4 6 −2
Sana Benefits 5 0 1 0 +1
Canopy 4 0 0 0 0
DeepScribe 4 1 3 2 +1
Remo Health 4 0 5 5 0
SmarterDx 4 0 1 12 −11
Freed 3 0 0 2 −2
Nayya 3 0 1 1 0
Relevant Healthcare 3 0 1 1 0
Paytient 2 0 0 4 −4
Angle Health 1 0 0 0 0
SonderMind 1 0 2 3 −1
MD Clarity 0 0 0 0 0

Large job boards periodically re-list roles under new URLs, which inflates the new and removed columns equally. Rankings on this page use net change, which is robust to that.

Where headcount is being added

Roles posted and removed by function over the last 30 days. Net positive means the function is growing across tracked startups.

Function Open Share Posted 30d Removed 30d Net 30d
Sales marketing 352 11% 131 87 +44
Product design 157 5% 50 36 +14
People finance 141 4% 68 54 +14
Data science 77 2% 25 16 +9
General admin 38 1% 11 12 −1
Other 301 9% 94 97 −3
Engineering 456 14% 101 105 −4
Clinical 1,244 38% 280 313 −33
Operations 550 17% 128 161 −33

Quietly becoming major employers

Fastest growth in open roles over the last 30 days, among companies that had at least 10 open a month ago.

The Healthcare Hiring Index

The long-run instrument behind the weekly read above: a fixed cohort of startups, compared week by week against the same base week, so adding companies to the tracker never moves it.

Healthcare startup hiring is holding roughly flat.

Of the 40 companies tracked since August 10, 17 are posting more roles than in the base week, 16 fewer, and 7 exactly as many, putting the Healthcare Hiring Index at 51.3 as of September 28, 2026 (+1.3 week over week).

Diffusion index by week. Baseline 50 = no net change from the base week.
How this report is calculated
  • Velocity is read from the job listings themselves: a role counts as new the day it first appears on a company's careers page and as removed the day it disappears, whether filled or withdrawn.
  • Listings first seen within 1 day of a company joining the tracker are its existing backlog, not new postings, and are excluded. A company only enters the 7-day figures after a full week of tracking and the 30-day figures after a full month.
  • Large job boards periodically re-list roles under new URLs, which inflates new and removed counts equally. Rankings therefore use net change; a company whose additions exceed 3x its open count a month earlier is treated as a re-list and left out of them.
  • The index is computed on a fixed cohort: for each week, only companies with a snapshot in both that week and the base week (August 10, 2026) are counted. New companies added to the tracker never move it.
  • Diffusion index = 100 x (companies with more open roles than the base week + half the companies with no change) / cohort size. 50 means as many startups are pulling back as ramping up.
  • Snapshots are resampled to one point per week (the last snapshot in each). A company-week whose open count exceeds 3x its base value is treated as a collector artifact and dropped.
  • Some early weeks are reconstructed from database backups; their per-company counts are read the same way but carry no role-flow detail.

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