Photon Health Named to the 2025 New York Digital Health 100 (DH100)
DH100 recognizes companies that have helped make New York the capital of healthcare innovation.
New York, NY (February 6, 2025) – Photon Health ("Photon") today announced that it has been named to the 2025 New York Digital Health 100 (DH100), a recognition that highlights the most exciting and innovative startups in New York. Digital Health New York (DHNY) publishes the annual list in conjunction with the New York Healthcare Innovation Report 2025 that analyzes the digital health sector's investment trends, challenges, and opportunities.
“We are delighted that our Brooklyn-based team has been selected for New York’s Digital Health 100,” said Otto Sipe, CEO and Co-Founder of Photon Health. “We are proud to be recognized for revolutionizing prescription experiences for people.”
“Now in its sixth year, the New York DH100 has evolved and grown, and in that time, the digital health ecosystem in New York has also reached unprecedented levels of innovation and impact,” said Bunny Ellerin, co-founder and CEO, DHNY. “We are honored to celebrate these organizations, whose dedication to transformation and progress is driving the future of healthcare.”
2024 was a transformative year for Photon: it experienced 10x growth, doubled its team, and raised $9 million to further its impact. In 2025, the company looks to make major strides towards enabling all Americans to shop with their prescriptions in hand.
About Photon Health
Photon Health is a pioneering healthcare technology company that enables smooth and transparent prescription experiences. Having routed over 1 million prescriptions, its platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, who can then shop between pharmacies, check medication status, and reroute prescriptions. Besides empowering patients to shop with their prescriptions in hand, Photon’s technology lifts the burden of tedious administrative tasks from clinical teams, allowing them to focus on deeper patient care. Photon aims to save money for patients by creating the first transparent prescription marketplace. Having raised over $16 million for this vision, the company was recently named to NYC’s Digital Health 100. Learn more at https://photon.health.
About Digital Health New York (DHNY)
Digital Health New York (DHNY) is a connected community of digital health leaders who share ideas, spark new directions and create success across the entire ecosystem. As an organization, we seek to increase the visibility of New York City as a leader in healthcare innovation and showcase the companies and leaders creating the future of healthcare. Our flagship event, DHNY Summit, brings together an elite group of entrepreneurs, investors, payers, providers and executives to cultivate the New York digital health community and drive impactful conversations around the current and future state of digital health. DHNY was founded in 2022 in collaboration with AlleyCorp. For more information or to join DHNY’s mailing list, please visit www.dhny.co.
DH100 Methodology
To compile the DH100, we invited companies to complete an in-depth application with both quantitative and qualitative measures to help us to get to know the company better. We also used our dynamic database of digital health companies in the region to round out the consideration set. A company qualified for consideration if it maintained headquarters or employed at least 5 people in the New York region. Companies that were public or non-profit; founded before 2014; or had an exit were excluded. We evaluated companies on a number of factors, including but not limited to: strength of application, leadership, number of employees, funding , revenue , market fit, differentiated offerings, and community engagement.
