Healthcare: Q3 2026 vs Q2 2026
Period-over-period comparison of healthcare startup engineering acceleration. How has the sector's engineering momentum changed between Q2 2026 and Q3 2026?
Healthcare engineering momentum moved -37% period-over-period: average 14-day commit velocity went from 84 in Q2 2026 to 53 in Q3 2026 across 26 tracked orgs. The fastest movers were aphp, StanfordSpezi, ere-health.
Who is in the Healthcare cohort, Q3 2026
By stage
- Series A/B8
- Seed7
- Growth6
- Pre-seed5
By geography
- Unknown12
- EU6
- US5
- APAC2
- UK1
Stage labels are inferred from repository scale and activity, not self-reported. Geography reflects the primary location associated with each public GitHub organization. Both mixes shift as the cohort changes between periods, which is why the same sector can look very different two quarters in a row.
Startups (Q3 2026)
26
Startups (Q2 2026)
28
Avg Velocity (now)
53
Velocity Trend
-37%
Top 5 by Period
Q3 2026
Q2 2026
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Full Rankings
How broad is this cohort
Beyond the top movers, the Q3 2026 healthcare cohort spans 1383 active contributors who together opened 24 new public repositories during the window. Breadth matters more than any single company: a sector where many teams add repositories and contributors at once is usually entering a build phase that shows up in funding rounds one to two quarters later, while a sector led by one or two outliers is more fragile than its headline number suggests.
Treat the velocity trend as a screening input, not a verdict. A -37% sector-wide move tells you where to spend attention next week; the per-company detail behind it tells you whether the move is real or driven by a single team pushing a release.
How to read this comparison
- Start with the velocity trend (-37%). It answers one question: is this sector accelerating or cooling compared with Q2 2026?
- Check the stage and geography mix. A cohort dominated by early-stage teams behaves differently from one weighted toward later-stage companies; the same headline number can mean different things.
- Scan the top-5 lists for both periods. Companies appearing in both are sustained accelerators, the strongest single pattern in this dataset. Companies appearing in only the newer period are new breakouts worth a manual look.
- Follow through to the full leaderboard before acting. The trend page shows aggregates; the ranking page shows each company against its own baseline.
How these numbers are built
Every metric on this page is computed from public GitHub activity for 26 tracked healthcare organizations. Commit velocity is commits in the last 14 days compared with the org's own 90-day average; contributor growth and new-repo creation are measured on the same windows. Nothing is self-reported, and no private data is used.
The full methodology, including how orgs enter and leave the cohort, is published at /methodology. An academic write-up of the signal family is available as SSRN preprint 6606558.
Common questions
- How much did Healthcare engineering momentum change between Q2 2026 and Q3 2026?
- Average 14-day commit velocity moved from 84 to 53, a -37% change, across 26 tracked orgs.
- Which Healthcare startups accelerated the most in Q3 2026?
- By commit-velocity change: aphp (+999%), StanfordSpezi (+999%), ere-health (+999%), epic-open-source (+999%), insightsengineering (+999%). The full ranked leaderboard is on the Healthcare Q3 2026 page.
- What is commit velocity and why does it matter for deal flow?
- Commit velocity is the number of code commits an engineering team lands per 14-day window, compared against its own 90-day baseline. Sustained acceleration in public repositories tends to precede hiring waves and fundraise announcements by several weeks, which is what makes it useful as an early deal-flow signal.