# Opalite Health

> Opalite Health is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator (W26) startup building an AI-powered, real-time medical interpreter that lets clinicians speak with patients in 150+ languages without waiting for a human interpreter. Founded by physician Cathleen Kuo and former Apple engineer Alex Mehregan, the platform is validated against certified medical interpreters, HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified, and is used daily by hospitals, community health centers, home health organizations, telehealth providers, and clinics across 10+ states.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Cathleen Kuo (Co-Founder & CEO), Alex Mehregan (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 3-9
- **Products:** Opalite AI Medical Interpreter, Opalite Guardian, Clinical Documentation & EHR Integration
- **Notable:** Validated against certified medical interpreters with >90% fewer errors in clinical evaluations (e.g., Spanish: 1 AI error vs. 65-93 human errors; Cantonese: 4 vs. 80-127; Mandarin: 6 vs. 130-163)., HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified; Section 1557 ready., Live and used daily across 10+ states within its first year.

## Products & services

- **Opalite AI Medical Interpreter** — Real-time, bidirectional AI voice interpretation across 150+ languages and dialects, available 24/7 without scheduling a human interpreter, built to run inside existing clinical workflows and EHR systems.
- **Opalite Guardian** — A sentence-level safety and confidence-scoring system that checks each interpreted utterance for accuracy before it reaches the patient, reducing the risk of medical mistranslation.
- **Clinical Documentation & EHR Integration** — Auto-generates visit documentation and audit records and integrates with EHRs (via FHIR), saving providers roughly 20% of time per interpreted session.

## Achievements

- Validated against certified medical interpreters with >90% fewer errors in clinical evaluations (e.g., Spanish: 1 AI error vs. 65-93 human errors; Cantonese: 4 vs. 80-127; Mandarin: 6 vs. 130-163).
- HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified; Section 1557 ready.
- Live and used daily across 10+ states within its first year.
- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Joined Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch and reported seed funding.
- **2026-01** — Reported live daily usage across 10+ states and a CIFC Health case study showing 50% lower costs and 22% time savings per visit.

## Links

- Website: https://opalitehealth.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opalite-health

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Last updated: 2026-07-30