From the onset of the pandemic, Capsule has partnered with local communities and governments to ensure that the elderly, immunocompromised, and other vulnerable populations are safe and healthy, and that they have uninterrupted access to critical medications. It also collaborated with Oscar Health and men’s wellness startup Hims to beef up its health care experience as it expanded into five new states. As health care systems digitized overnight, the company's seamless digital platform enabled more consumers to fill prescriptions that may have otherwise gone unused.

This company's telehealth app was already offering text-based primary health care when demand surged because of the Covid-19 pandemic. 98point6 spent this year expanding rapidly, tripling the number of physicians participating in its network, and adding commercial partnerships with giants like Boeing, Chipotle, Circle K, and KinderCare to provide text-based primary care to millions of employees and dependents during a time of heightened need. Chief medical officer Brad Younggren is a doctor at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, Washington, the first U.S. hospital to identify a Covid-19 outbreak.

 As a widely-cited source for small-business data, Homebase helped Americans -- including policymakers, economists, and journalists -- grasp the impact of Covid-19 on business and the economy. It also built a financial resources site for both businesses and workers, partnered with lenders to facilitate Paycheck Protection Program loan applications, and offered a range of small-business resources, including support from certified HR professionals, symptom-screening tools, and a re-opening toolkit.

Founded by former White House economic adviser Mike Rosenbaum, Catalyte uses predictive analytics to remove bias from hiring and diversify tech teams. It finds promising talent from unconventional backgrounds using skills assessments rather than resumes. Then, it trains candidates for free and hires them to work with client companies. In May, Catalyte launched RetrainAmerica, a national exchange to connect newly unemployed workers with retraining opportunities. The program builds on Catalyte’s existing reskilling platform for companies retraining workers and bringing on high-aptitude talent from other industries.

Jackson Healthcare has become integral to Georgia's pandemic response. In April, the governor of Georgia announced a partnership with Jackson Healthcare to place health care workers in cities across the state. Since then, the company has placed more 2,300 health care workers in over 130 hospitals, overflow care facilities, nursing homes, and mobile field hospitals in Georgia. Because of a newly created model for providing staff, Jackson Healthcare has been able to reduce the lead time it needs to have a physician on-the-ground providing care from 60 days to 10 or fewer days.