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Vitalize
Vitalize is a San Francisco health-tech company building an AI platform that helps hospitals and health systems optimize labor - unifying staffing, scheduling, patient flow, and capacity in one system. Founded by Veeraj Shah, Sanketh Andhavarapu, and Nikhil DSouza and shaped in Y Combinator's W23 batch, the company began as a mental-health support tool for burned-out clinicians and evolved into the operational backbone that decides who works where and when, cutting manual scheduling time by roughly 70% and reaching demonstrated ROI in under 90 days.
Abridge
Abridge builds generative AI that listens to patient-clinician conversations and turns them into structured clinical notes and billing-ready documentation in real time. Deployed across 150+ U.S. health systems and integrated deeply with Epic, the company has become the dominant pure-play ambient AI scribe in healthcare, valued at $5.3B after a $300M Series E in June 2025.