DHP and Outsome Silicon Valley Bootcamp Ends With VC Talks
Five Korean digital health startups finished a two-week Bay Area bootcamp run by DHP and Outsome, with three now in follow-up talks with US investors.
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giftdetect· the right gift in minutesThe second cohort of the DHP x Outsome Silicon Valley Bootcamp 2026 wrapped up its US program on October 31. Digital Health Partners (DHP), a digital health investor, and Outsome, an accelerator focused on US expansion, ran the camp together. Five Korean startups, picked from applicants at a 6-to-1 ratio, spent two weeks living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The program was part of the Global Expansion Acceleration Program backed by Seoul Bio Hub and the Korea Technology Finance Corporation. Participants were MAIT (AI diagnosis of infant hip dysplasia), Hahaeho (healthcare for seniors and cancer survivors), Foretell My Health (platelet liquid biopsy for early cancer detection), Belle Therapeutics (sound-based digital therapeutic for insomnia) and Seven Point One (voice-based dementia screening).
Investor meetings
The startups met 18 local venture capitalists. At a VC roundtable held at the law firm WilmerHale, investors including Novo Holdings, LG Technology Ventures and Puppa Ventures took part in reverse pitches and company presentations. In a mock investment evaluation, Foretell My Health attracted the most funding. Three companies, Foretell My Health, Seven Point One and MAIT, have since entered formal follow-up meetings with US investors and are in the review stage.
Hospitals and big tech
The teams also met clinicians from Stanford hospital, Kaiser Permanente and UCSF. MAIT plans to pursue a data use agreement and a HIPAA business associate agreement with Stanford's pediatric orthopedics team, and agreed to sign a non-disclosure agreement with Kaiser Permanente for research collaboration. The group visited Microsoft's Mountain View campus to discuss healthcare AI cooperation and shared its US strategy at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters.
Mentoring included Stanford Biodesign's needs-driven innovation training, a visit to cancer drug developer Medic Life Science, and advice from founders who have expanded to the US, as well as Y Combinator alumni. Accommodation and space came from MARU SF, the Asan Nanum Foundation's short-stay hub, with support from WilmerHale and K&L Gates.
DHP CEO Choi Yoon-sub said the investor reviews, clinical talks and exchanges with Microsoft and OpenAI would serve as a practical foothold for Korean healthcare startups entering the US. Outsome CEO Shin Dong-yeop said the firm would use its Y Combinator founder network to support follow-on expansion. The two partners plan to run the bootcamp regularly.
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