# Diego Saavedra-Kloss

> Diego Saavedra-Kloss is the founder and CEO of Sandy Health, a San Francisco startup building a financial intelligence platform for healthcare providers. An MIT-trained aerospace engineer who spent years building infrastructure at LeapYear Technologies and Rad AI, Diego now points AI at the least glamorous problem in medicine: the paperwork that decides whether a clinic gets paid. Sandy Health calculates expected reimbursement before a visit, tracks the actual payment after, and shrinks the gap in between. The company raised a $1.5M pre-seed round in November 2025.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Sandy Health
- **Organizations:** Sandy Health, Rad AI, LeapYear Technologies, New Dimension, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Education:** BS, Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded Sandy Health in 2025 to build an operational and financial backbone for healthcare providers, Raised a $1.5M pre-seed round backed by physicians, healthcare operators, and entrepreneurs, Led infrastructure engineering at LeapYear Technologies and engineering at Rad AI

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Infrastructure Team Lead at LeapYear Technologies, building differential-privacy data infrastructure
- **2022** — Engineering Manager at Rad AI, a radiology AI company
- **2025** — Founded Sandy Health and became CEO
- **2025** — Closed a $1.5M pre-seed round (announced November 12, 2025)

## Achievements

- Founded Sandy Health in 2025 to build an operational and financial backbone for healthcare providers
- Raised a $1.5M pre-seed round backed by physicians, healthcare operators, and entrepreneurs
- Led infrastructure engineering at LeapYear Technologies and engineering at Rad AI
- MIT-trained aerospace engineer

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Sandy Health closed a $1.5M pre-seed round to build its AI-driven healthcare operations and revenue intelligence platform; Dr. Janelle Sunwoo of Leaf Medical joined as Founding Advisor.

## Links

- Website: https://sandyhealth.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-saavedrakloss/
- GitHub: https://github.com/diego-leapyear

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Last updated: 2026-06-24