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Mikkel Wad Thorsen Is Teaching AI to Notice What Care Teams Cannot Always See
A design-trained founder spent months close to the hospital floor, then built Teton around a stubborn idea: useful AI should understand the work before it tries to automate it.
The Backup Plan That Became the Business
Sharon Lurtsema spent decades learning what happens when care falls apart. Then she built a company around making the backup plan feel less like a scramble - and more like infrastructure.
Erez Cohen
Erez Cohen is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of August Health, a San Francisco-based healthtech company building the modern EHR platform for senior living communities. A serial founder and former Apple engineering leader, Cohen sold his first company, Mapsense, to Apple for approximately $25-30 million in 2015. He founded August Health in 2020 after meeting physician co-founder Dr. Justin Schram at a San Francisco playground - both pushing their two-year-olds on the swings - and the company has since raised $44 million in total funding, with a $29 million Series B led by Base10 Partners in August 2025.