# Dhaivat Pandya

> Dhaivat Pandya is the founder and CEO of Verse Medical, a New York healthtech company building software to modernize the $50B-plus world of in-home medical supplies, an industry still run largely on fax machines. A Harvard computer science and statistics graduate and a longtime open-source builder and technical writer, he came up through quantitative research at Two Sigma and Kensho and core engineering at Apollo GraphQL before starting the company in 2018 through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch. Verse Medical pivoted from an earlier consumer venture (JetLenses) into a software-driven medical supplier and has grown to roughly 160-200 employees, backed by investors including Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, Josh Buckley, and Paul Graham.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Verse Medical
- **Organizations:** Verse Medical, JetLenses, Two Sigma, Apollo GraphQL, Kensho Technologies, Meteor
- **Nationality:** United States
- **Education:** AB, Computer Science and Statistics, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Verse Medical, a software platform for in-home healthcare, Built the company through Y Combinator (Summer 2018), Grew the team to roughly 160-200 employees

## Career timeline

- **2015-2016** — Quantitative Research at Kensho Technologies
- **2016** — Core Developer / Consultant at Apollo GraphQL (Meteor)
- **2017** — Quantitative Research at Two Sigma
- **2018** — Founded the company (originally JetLenses) and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch
- **2020-2021** — Raised seed funding; total funding reported around $13M
- **2024** — Verse Medical reported roughly $5M revenue with a ~105-person team
- **2025-2026** — Scaling Verse Medical to ~160-200 employees, hiring across engineering and operations

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Verse Medical, a software platform for in-home healthcare
- Built the company through Y Combinator (Summer 2018)
- Grew the team to roughly 160-200 employees
- Raised backing from Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, Josh Buckley, and Paul Graham
- Prolific open-source contributor and technical author (Apollo GraphQL, LogRocket, SitePoint, Medium)
- Authored open-source libraries including a Haskell q-learning library (QLearn) and an HTML5 game engine

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Posted publicly about how Verse Medical interviews and hires, emphasizing builders.
- **2026-01** — Continuing to scale Verse Medical's team and platform from New York.

## Links

- Website: http://www.dpandya.com/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dhaivat-pandya-2285b356
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dhaivatsays
- GitHub: https://github.com/Poincare

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Last updated: 2026-06-24