Perspectives Health builds AI agents that take on the paperwork behind behavioral health care. Its software reviews patient charts every night, flags documentation that would trigger an insurance denial, writes clinical notes, and assembles utilization-review packets - so addiction and mental health programs get paid and clinicians spend less time on forms. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, the company reports piloting across a dozen-plus clinics and reaching $250K in committed ARR within four weeks of launch.
Clay Ritchey is the Chief Executive Officer of Verato, a Tysons, Virginia healthcare technology company whose referential identity matching platform helps hospitals, life science firms and government agencies resolve who is who across fragmented records. A Penn State electrical engineer and Harvard MBA, he has spent more than two decades building and scaling healthcare software businesses, including a turn as CEO of Evariant, which merged with Healthgrades in 2020. He took the helm at Verato in 2021 and has become a frequent voice on why patient matching sits at the center of healthcare's digital transformation.
Opencare is a Toronto-based dental marketplace that helps patients find, compare and book vetted dentists across North America while giving dental practices a pay-for-performance patient-acquisition channel. Patients use a matching quiz, verified reviews and instant online booking to choose a provider; practices pay only when a new patient actually shows up and is treated. Founded in 2012, the company has cared for more than 100,000 patients and raised roughly $22.6M, led by 8VC.
BetterHealthcare is a New York-based healthcare technology company that modernizes patient access through its BetterAccess platform, a HIPAA-compliant SaaS product for online self-scheduling, telehealth booking, automated reminders and bi-directional integration with practice management and EHR systems. Founded in 2016 as BetterPT - a booking app for physical therapy - the company broadened into a full patient-access platform used across the continuum of care and was acquired by HealthBus (TRCM Fund) in January 2025.
Cedar is a New York-based healthcare financial technology company that helps hospitals, physician groups and payers modernize the way patients understand and pay their medical bills. Founded in 2016 by Florian Otto and Ariel Lidow, Cedar combines consumer-grade digital billing, personalized payment plans, coverage and benefits tools, and AI-powered support - including its Kora AI voice agent - into a single patient financial engagement platform. It works with more than 55 leading health systems and payers, has processed billions of dollars in patient payments, and reached a $3.2 billion valuation after a 2021 Series D.
Datos Health is an AI-driven remote care company that lets hospitals and health systems build and deploy personalized remote patient monitoring programs without code. Its OpenCare platform pairs a drag-and-drop Design Studio with patient-facing CareApps and a robotic-process-automation engine, so care teams can automate everything from cardiac rehab to hospital-at-home and oncology follow-up. Founded in 2015 by Uri Bettesh after a family cardiac emergency, the company is device-agnostic, integrates with existing EHRs, and was named to TIME's list of the World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025.
Lyfegen is a Swiss health-tech company that builds software to manage value-based drug pricing and rebate agreements. Its platform helps health insurers, governments, hospital payers, pharmaceutical firms and medical device makers automate complex rebate contracts, run pricing simulations and tap the world's largest library of value-based agreements - reducing administrative burden while helping patients access innovative therapies.
Percipio Health is a Plano, Texas company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a whole-person health monitor, using AI to read vision- and voice-based biomarkers - vitals, medication adherence, brain health and social determinants - without any dedicated medical devices. Founded by digital-health veterans Eric Rock and David Lucas, the team behind Vivify Health and MEDHOST, the platform helps health plans and providers catch rising-risk and high-risk patients earlier and manage large populations at lower cost. It launched publicly in January 2025 alongside a $20M Series A led by UPMC Enterprises, WAVE Ventures and Labcorp.
RapidClaims is a New York-based healthcare technology company building autonomous AI agents for medical coding and revenue cycle management. Its platform helps hospitals, physician groups, ACOs and community health centers automate coding, prevent claim denials, recover underpayments and improve documentation - reducing operating costs by up to 70% while capturing earned revenue. Founded in 2023 by three IIT Kharagpur alumni, the company raised $11M led by Accel and Together Fund to expand across 25+ medical specialties.
Redox is a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare technology company that runs a cloud network for exchanging clinical and administrative data between health systems, digital health vendors, payers, and life sciences companies. Founded in 2014 by three former Epic Systems engineers, Redox lets a customer connect once to a single API and then reach thousands of healthcare organizations across dozens of electronic health record systems, rather than building and maintaining hundreds of point-to-point integrations. The platform handles standards like HL7v2, CCD, X12, and FHIR, and processes billions of data transactions a year.
Vital Interaction is an Austin, Texas healthcare technology company that blends patient data, business intelligence, and workflow automation to help medical practices communicate with patients across text, voice, and email. Founded in 2009, its platform automates appointment reminders, recalls, reactivations, referrals, and surveys so practices can cut no-shows, close care gaps, and re-engage patients. The company says it serves more than 13,000 providers and delivers over 40 million personalized messages a year to more than 5 million patients, and in early 2024 it raised a $15 million Series A led by Next Coast Ventures.
Greg Peters is the co-founder and CEO of BetterHealthcare, a New York-based healthcare technology company that started as BetterPT in 2016 and grew into an interoperable patient-access and scheduling platform. A former Division I football player and New York fitness professional, he partnered with Hospital for Special Surgery surgeon Dr. Stephen Fealy to remove the friction in booking physical therapy and, later, broader care. BetterHealthcare was acquired by HealthBus in January 2025, where its BetterAccess platform now powers real-time appointment booking and provider matching across a national network.
Cipherome is a San Jose-based clinical genomics and bioinformatics company on a mission to find the drug that works for each individual. Its no-code platform COMPASS lets researchers transform, query, and analyze massive clinical and genomic datasets - like the 500,000-participant UK Biobank - without writing code, while its Xentinel platform uses explainable AI to predict and reduce adverse drug reactions. Backed by roughly $16-23M through a Series B, the 12-person team pairs Silicon Valley software with Seoul National University biomedical-informatics research.
Tatiana Fofanova is the co-founder and CEO of Koda Health, a Houston-based B2B enterprise SaaS company that helps health systems and payers scale advance care planning. Trained as a molecular-medicine PhD at Baylor College of Medicine and a former HHMI scholar, she left bench and pediatric work after concluding that patients needed access and good information more than newer drugs. She built Koda out of the Texas Medical Center's Biodesign Fellowship in 2020 with co-founders Desh Mohan and Katelin Cherry, describing the product as 'TurboTax meets Duolingo' for the hardest conversations in medicine. The company now supports more than a million patients nationwide and raised an oversubscribed $7M Series A in October 2025.
Chronica is a San Diego digital-health company that runs remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) as a managed service. Built on parent company Hifinite Health's hiCare platform, Chronica pairs a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant software stack with the parts most clinics don't want to build themselves: the connected devices, the in-house clinicians, the call center, and the billing paperwork tied to CMS reimbursement codes. Providers - from outpatient practices to hospitals, ACOs, and home-health agencies - get to extend care beyond the exam room without upfront costs, long contracts, or patient minimums.
Pascal Metrics is a Washington, DC and Austin-based healthcare data analytics company that turns real-time electronic health record data into clinically validated adverse-event outcomes. As a U.S.-certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO #0047), it operates the Pascal Platform - anchored by trigger-based surveillance and machine-learning models - to help hospitals and health systems detect, predict, and reduce preventable patient harm. Founded in 2007 and named after Blaise Pascal, the 'founder of risk management,' the company claims one of the largest validated adverse-event outcomes datasets in the world.
Tellescope is a HIPAA-compliant digital health platform that unifies patient communication, intake, scheduling, and workflow automation into a single, developer-friendly system. Built for digital health startups and modern clinics, it lets care teams reach patients across SMS, email, chat, and video, automate repetitive workflows without code, and plug into EHRs and clinical tools through an API-first architecture - so teams can launch faster and scale personalized care without stitching together generic sales software.
Sebastian Coates is the CEO and co-founder of Tellescope, a HIPAA-compliant, API-first patient communication and CRM platform used by more than 150 digital health organizations. A Tufts computer science and mathematics graduate who once wrote software for the Apple Watch and prototyped blockchain systems for clinical trials at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, he started Tellescope in 2020 with co-founder Derek Strauss to give telehealth companies a developer-friendly tech stack for managing patients across SMS, email, voice, and secure messaging. Notably, he has kept the company lean and profitable rather than chasing oversized venture rounds.
Shawn Dastmalchi is a serial healthcare-technology entrepreneur and the CEO of Gratia Health, an Austin-based startup that uses behavioral science and incentive design to keep nurses on the job. A UC Berkeley PhD in vision science, he co-founded and led Apixio, a clinical big-data company later acquired by Centene, then built Ark.one Health out of an entrepreneur-in-residence stint at Sutter Health. Across 25-plus years in life sciences, medical devices and health IT, his throughline is turning messy clinical data into decisions - and, at Gratia, turning the daily grind of a hospital floor into reasons for nurses to stay.
Vik Kashyap is the founder and CEO of Toi Labs, the San Francisco company behind TrueLoo, an AI-enabled toilet seat that quietly turns ordinary bathrooms in senior living communities into a source of passive wellness data. A Harvard graduate and former Battery Ventures associate, he previously built Canopy, a consumer healthcare SaaS company acquired by Aetna and later CVS. TrueLoo was named a 2024 TIME Best Invention and is deployed across dozens of senior communities. He holds about 10 patents and has been cited or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, and Science Translational Medicine.
ExaCare AI is a New York-based healthcare technology company building an AI operating system for post-acute and senior care. Its suite of AI agents reads messy referral packets, recommends patient placements, automates reimbursement and documentation, and surfaces clinical risk so that care teams in skilled nursing, home health, and hospice spend less time on paperwork and more time on patients. Founded in 2022 by Laird Russell and Ben Willox, the company powers roughly 1,500-2,000 facilities nationwide and raised a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Notable is the AI platform purpose-built for healthcare, automating over 1.5 million tasks daily across more than 12,000 sites of care. Founded in 2017 by Pranay Kapadia, Adam Ting, and Justin White in a Burlingame garage, the company has grown to serve 38 million patients cumulatively. Notable's AI agents handle patient scheduling, insurance verification, referrals, care gap closure, and revenue cycle management - eliminating hundreds of hours of administrative busywork per provider annually. Backed by ICONIQ Growth, Greylock, and F-Prime Capital with $119 million in total funding at a $600 million valuation, Notable counts CommonSpirit Health, Intermountain Health, CityMD, and Inova Health among its major healthcare system partners.

Will Yin is the co-founder and CEO of Mandolin, a San Francisco AI automation company building autonomous agents for specialty drug access. A Greenwich High School valedictorian and Stanford dropout, Yin previously co-founded Jupiter (YC-backed, $9M raised) before pivoting to healthcare. At Mandolin, he and co-founder Rohit Rustagi have raised $97M to automate the back-office workflows — prior auth, benefits verification, billing — that delay cancer and Alzheimer's patients from getting life-saving specialty therapies. Within months of launch, Mandolin deployed across 700+ clinics serving 250,000+ new patients annually.