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Kelvin Chan
Kelvin Chan is a co-founder of Nirvana, a New York healthtech company that uses machine learning and data science to turn insurance verification and cost estimation into something providers and patients can trust. He leads product and serves as president. A Columbia-trained neuroscientist who spent years building enterprise data software at Enigma, Chan started Nirvana in 2019 after a frustrating personal experience trying to find out whether his insurance would cover a therapist. The company has raised $24.2M in Series A funding led by Northzone and now powers eligibility checks across digital health platforms and provider offices nationwide.
100ms
100ms builds voice-first AI agents for U.S. healthcare operations. Founded in 2020 as a low-code live video and audio infrastructure platform, the company pivoted to healthcare, applying its real-time communications expertise to automate patient access workflows - benefits verification, prior authorization, referral intake, scheduling, and intake - so care teams spend less time on phones and patients start treatment faster. Its agents are built to be HIPAA-compliant, with clinical safety guardrails and human escalation.
Standard Practice
Standard Practice builds voice AI for healthcare revenue cycle teams. Its AI agents place outbound phone calls to insurance payors and pharmacies - dialing, navigating IVR menus, waiting on hold, and speaking in a human-sounding voice - to handle claim follow-ups, benefits verification, prior authorizations, and EDI enrollment. The goal is to strip the phone-tag drudgery out of medical billing so practices get paid more, faster, while staff focus on higher-value work. Founded by Steven Greene and Phil Markunas after pivoting from their earlier venture Nibble Health, the New York company targets the roughly $1 trillion in annual U.S. healthcare administrative costs.
Mandolin
Mandolin is a San Francisco healthcare AI company building agents that handle the paperwork blocking patients from specialty drugs. Its software automates intake, benefits verification, prior authorization, and claims work for infusion providers, specialty pharmacies, and health systems - the back office that decides how quickly a cancer or Alzheimer's patient actually gets treated.