Builders,
Welcome to Repo's first issue of 2026. We're kicking off the year with where our investors see the biggest opportunities in health tech, resources from Major League Hacking winners, and a look at what happened in December.
But first: Add your profile in the Student Repo Directory if you haven’t already. Our Founders are actively flipping through it. Our New Year’s resolution: connecting more of you to opportunities in our portfolio.
In today’s issue:
Where our health investors see opportunities
Open roles at 3 portfolio companies
500+ summer internships + hackathon winner notes
Updates from December
Read time: 5 minutes
Builder Prompt 002: Breakthrough Ideas to Build in Health
The Gap
Technology isn’t the hard part in healthcare anymore. Coordination and trust are. We’re seeing AI move faster in healthcare than ever before. Teams are building faster and leaner, reaching patients sooner, and challenging long-held assumptions about what it takes to deliver quality care.
But speed alone isn’t the point. What matters are actual improvements in how people live, heal, and age.
Right now, care is fragmented, reactive, and exhausting for everyone involved. Patients bounce between tools and providers. Clinicians spend more time documenting than caring. And too many people enter the system only when there’s a problem.
This is Your Opportunity
Our health investors are seeing opportunities in three areas. If you're building in health tech, here's what they're watching:
Longevity care tools - Apps that help people manage chronic conditions, track biomarkers, or coordinate care across multiple doctors
AI-first triage - Tools that handle initial patient questions/symptoms before a human clinician steps in
Preventive health tracking - Wearables and apps that catch health issues early using real-time data
Read the full piece to go deeper (link in comments): https://www.reachcapital.com/resources/thought-leadership/2026-big-ideas-health/
Building in one of these? Reply to this email - we can intro you to investors in this space.
HIRING LOG: OPEN OPPORTUNITIES
Messa AI | Junior AI Software Engineer (Full time, Remote)
Build the intelligence layer that lets companies evaluate talent with clarity, consistency, and speed.
NationGraph | Applied Machine Learning Engineer (Intern, San Francisco)
Build the real-world knowledge graph. Make procurement and public sector selling more transparent.
Replit | Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2026 (Intern, Foster City)
Empower the next billion software creators with AI-powered infrastructure that makes coding accessible to everyone — including the frontline.
HACKERS OF THE MONTH
We sat down with NYUHacks winners — Sparsh Bahadur, Kushal Mamillapalli, Siddhant Bhatnagar, Yashraj Patel — at the Reach office to ask them the important questions: favorite hackathon snacks, best tools, and who's most likely to drop out of school to start a company.
Their winning project: AutoCPT, automates medical billing by extracting CPT codes from doctor-patient conversations and generating bills through the Capital One API.
Their resource to share: A GitHub repo with 500+ Summer 2026 internships and co-ops, updated regularly: https://github.com/vanshb03/Summer2026-Internships?tab=readme-ov-file
REPO RECEIPT
- 9 builders submitted profiles in December - welcome!
- Brilliant (portfolio company) hired a summer intern from the Repo network
- 10 founders are actively looking through the directory
Pro tip: Founders care more about your "humble flex" answer than your resume. Show what you've built or what you’re obsessed about.
WHAT’S NEXT
Reply to this email with:
What you're building (we read every response)
Questions for next month's founder interview
Ideas you want feedback on
See you in February.
Valentina on behalf of Reach Capital
Reach Capital invests in early-stage founders redefining how we learn, live, and work. Our portfolio of 130+ startups includes tools you might’ve used in school (ClassDojo, Desmos, Brilliant) and next-gen, AI-native disruptors shaping how future generations build, work, and thrive (like Replit and GPTZero).
These teams are constantly on the lookout for talented builders. Share what you’re studying, building, or exploring, and we’ll intro you to projects, people, and paid opportunities for you to build upon.