Tagged: cedar
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Florian Otto
Florian Otto is the co-founder and CEO of Cedar, a New York healthcare financial technology company that reworks how patients understand and pay their medical bills. A former physician trained in Germany, Otto moved from medicine into consulting at McKinsey, built a daily-deals business in Brazil that became Groupon Brazil, and ran commercial sales at ZocDoc before starting Cedar in 2016. He built the company around a simple frustration - a confusing hospital bill his fiancee received - and a bigger question: why can't healthcare billing feel as clear as buying from Amazon or Expedia? Cedar has since raised roughly $400M+ and works with hospitals and health systems across the United States.
Neel Shah
Neel Shah is a New York-based healthcare-fintech operator and the chief executive of Zaya Care, a startup that helps independently-owned practices accept insurance profitably. Before Zaya, he ran commercial and product finance at Cedar, the healthcare billing and payments company. His work sits at the unglamorous seam of American medicine - the paperwork, reimbursement and revenue plumbing that decides whether a solo dietitian, physical therapist or acupuncturist can afford to take insurance at all. Zaya, which began by importing a European-style model of maternal care and negotiating coverage with major payers, now pitches itself as the financial leverage of a large medical group for providers who want to stay independent.
Santosh Vallabhaneni
Santosh Vallabhaneni is the co-founder and CEO of Rovi Health, a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup building text-first, AI-enabled healthcare for employees. Patients get care over text or video while AI agents steer them to high-value, in-network providers and handle scheduling, cutting employer health spend by 10-20%. Before Rovi he was GM of Cedar's patient affordability products and an early go-to-market leader at AngelList, and he is a licensed health insurance broker. He founded the company with his brother Tarun, the CTO.