Founder Files / Healthcare
Dilpreet Sahota
He looked at the most boring data in healthcare and saw a fortune hiding in plain sight.
Leaning on the stonework, laughing at the data nobody else wanted.
He looked at the most boring data in healthcare and saw a fortune hiding in plain sight.
Two clinics down the street from each other bill the exact same procedure code. One gets paid five times more than the other. Neither knows it. That quiet, expensive secret is the entire reason Trek Health exists - and the reason Dilpreet Sahota gets out of bed.
Trek Health is an AI platform that does one stubborn thing well: it takes the firehose of federal price-transparency data - the kind of release governments mandate and then nobody can actually read - and turns it into a number a provider can walk into a negotiation and use. Benchmark your rates. Simulate the back-and-forth. Find out, finally, what the market actually pays for what you do.
Sahota founded the company in January 2022. By March he had a paying customer. That is not a typo, and it is the most Sahota thing about the whole story: less interested in the pitch deck, more interested in whether someone would write a check for the thing he built.
The Price Transparency Act forced insurers to publish their rates. Victory, on paper. In practice it produced 10 million billing-code combinations a month and thousands of terabytes of files that no human and almost no company could parse. The transparency was real. The usefulness was zero. Trek Health lives in that gap.
Sahota studied integrative biology at UC Berkeley, then went up the road to Stanford for a master's in clinically-oriented healthcare practice and research. The classic path would have been a lab coat. He took the data instead.
He did time where modern digital health gets built: a researcher's stint at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, then growth and analytics at Health IQ (a16z-backed, $136M+ raised), then a "Special Ops" lead role at Big Health (SoftBank-backed, $129M+ raised). Three very different rooms, one common lesson - healthcare runs on numbers that almost nobody bothers to look at closely.
In 2022 he stopped looking at other people's numbers and started Trek Health. Gopal Narayan, a 30-year engineering veteran out of Charles Schwab and Realtor.com, joined as co-founder and CTO that May. The seed round - $2.7M - landed in August. By 2023 they had shipped Price Transparency Solutions. The market did the rest of the talking.
Pull real market rates across geographies and specialties, so a practice finally knows whether it is being paid fairly or quietly shortchanged.
The Competitive Market Analysis feature uses heat maps and AI modeling to run negotiation scenarios before anyone sits at the table.
Turn raw price-transparency files into a recommended strategy - the leverage the big systems already had, handed to everyone else.
His personal site doesn't oversell. It calls him a "data enthusiast, healthcare professional, and outdoor enthusiast" who likes hiking and the beach. The company is named Trek; the founder is the kind of person who actually treks. Some brand names are aspirational. This one is a Saturday.
There is a tidy symmetry to the name, too. A trek is a long climb with a hard view of the terrain ahead. That is more or less what Trek Health hands a provider before they negotiate - the map nobody used to have.