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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.
Nick Reber
Nick Reber is the founder and CEO of Garner Health, a New York based health tech company that mines more than 60 billion medical claims records to find the highest-performing doctors and pays patients to choose them. A former Bridgewater Associates partner and Oscar Health leader, Reber turned a quantitative investing playbook on the messiest market in America, building a business that helps employers cut benefits costs without changing plans or networks. In 2026 Garner raised $100 million in Series E funding at a reported $2.74 billion valuation.
Maayan Cohen
Maayan Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hello Heart, a Menlo Park-based digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on cardiovascular health. A former Israeli tank platoon commander turned strategy consultant, she built Hello Heart from a 2013 startup into a platform covering 1.6+ million members across Fortune 500 employers, backed by $148.5M in funding from investors including Khosla Ventures, IVP, and Stripes. Named to CNBC Changemakers 2024 and Inc. Female Founders 500 in 2025, Cohen is recognized for her empathy-driven leadership style - including managing her company from Tel Aviv bomb shelters during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war while providing housing and support for both Israeli and Palestinian staff.
Tylon Wang
Tylon Wang (Ty Wang) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Angle Health, an AI-native health insurance platform that builds custom, full-service health plans for small and medium-sized businesses across 44 states. A former Palantir deployment strategist and Y Combinator alumnus, Wang founded Angle Health in 2019 after watching his immigrant parents navigate a healthcare system that wasn't built for people like them. Under his leadership, Angle Health has raised nearly $200 million in funding — including a $134 million Series B in December 2025 — and grown revenue 26x since its 2022 Series A, now serving more than 3,000 employers.
Kate Torgersen
Kate Torgersen is the founder and CEO of Milk Stork, the world's first breast milk shipping service for traveling professionals. After lugging 26 pounds of milk home from a business trip while nursing infant twins, she co-invested $25,000 with her father and built a logistics platform now serving 850+ companies, having shipped more than 7.5 million ounces of breast milk across 112 countries. A former 18-year Clif Bar communications executive with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Kate turned a deeply personal frustration into a category-defining company backed by Backstage Capital and named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list.