# Jon Wang

> Jon Wang is the co-founder and co-CEO of Assort Health, a San Francisco company building voice AI agents that answer the phone for doctors' offices. A Stanford bioinformatics graduate and Gates-Cambridge Scholar who walked away from UCSF medical school, Wang spent two years studying why patients wait on hold before launching Assort with Jeff Liu in 2023. The company has since handled more than 42 million patient interactions and raised $102 million, including a $76 million Series B led by Lightspeed in 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Assort Health
- **Organizations:** Assort Health, Elemy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Shimmer, Stanford University, UCSF
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MS & BS in Bioinformatics (top 3%), Stanford University, MD candidate (left program), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Gates-Cambridge Scholar Elect; offered MD-PhD scholarship, Gates-Cambridge / NIH Oxford-Cambridge
- **Known for:** Co-founded Assort Health, the first generative AI platform built for healthcare call centers, Scaled the platform to more than 42 million patient interactions, Raised $102 million in roughly four months, including a $76M Series B led by Lightspeed

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Champion, Dreamcatchers MedTech Hackathon (UVify project)
- **2020** — Machine learning research on healthcare equity and clinical decision support
- **2021** — Left UCSF medical school to pursue building
- **2022** — Chief of Staff at Elemy; advisor to mental health startup Shimmer
- **2023** — Co-founded Assort Health with Jeff Liu
- **2025-04** — Assort Health raises $26M co-led by First Round Capital and Chemistry
- **2025-09** — Assort Health closes $76M Series B led by Lightspeed; $102M total raised

## Achievements

- Co-founded Assort Health, the first generative AI platform built for healthcare call centers
- Scaled the platform to more than 42 million patient interactions
- Raised $102 million in roughly four months, including a $76M Series B led by Lightspeed
- J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement (top 25 Stanford graduates)
- Phi Beta Kappa, elected as one of 32 juniors
- President's Award for Excellence in Freshman Year (top 3%)
- Gates-Cambridge Scholar Elect (top 1% of international applicants)
- Published peer-reviewed AI research in JAMIA Open and JMIR

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Assort Health closed a $76M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing total funding to $102M.
- **2025-04** — Assort Health raised $26M co-led by First Round Capital and Chemistry.

## Links

- Website: https://jonxwang.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonxwang/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/_JonWang
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msvq_0yqWh4

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Last updated: 2026-06-11