How a developer tired of building the same forms over and over turned a no-code side project into a workflow-automation company trusted by 25,000 organizations.
careCycle (YC W25) builds voice AI teams for Medicare agencies and Field Marketing Organizations. Its AI agents handle the non-licensed parts of the member journey - pre-screening, appointment booking, 24/7 questions, and post-enrollment follow-up - then warm-transfer to licensed human agents. The pitch is that a Medicare agency loses roughly half its members each year to poor post-sale engagement, and careCycle keeps those members answered, called back, and retained without the agency hiring a call center.
HealthKey is an AI-powered patient identification platform for clinical trial sites. It connects directly to a clinic's electronic health record system, reads every patient chart - including scanned and faxed PDFs - and scores each patient against a trial's eligibility criteria. Doctors get a ranked list of likely-qualifying candidates with the supporting evidence highlighted, replacing slow manual chart review. HealthKey charges success fees per enrolled patient, so sites pay only when it works. Founded in 2025 by Josh Sabol and backed by Y Combinator (W25), the company is based in Austin, Texas.
Opalite Health is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator (W26) startup building an AI-powered, real-time medical interpreter that lets clinicians speak with patients in 150+ languages without waiting for a human interpreter. Founded by physician Cathleen Kuo and former Apple engineer Alex Mehregan, the platform is validated against certified medical interpreters, HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified, and is used daily by hospitals, community health centers, home health organizations, telehealth providers, and clinics across 10+ states.
OpenCall.ai is a San Francisco AI startup (Y Combinator W24) that builds AI voice agents to answer, route, and resolve business phone calls. Trained on thousands of real-world workflows, its agents book appointments, verify insurance, and update records, integrating with existing software and going live in under an hour. The company targets service businesses - especially healthcare practices - promising to capture missed-call revenue while cutting call-handling costs by 50-80%.
Toothy AI builds HIPAA-compliant AI agents that run the insurance side of a dental practice - verifying patient coverage, filing and correcting claims, chasing denials, and posting payments. Using voice AI to make payer phone calls and portal automation to check eligibility, Toothy aims to take the roughly 160 hours a month that clinics spend on insurance busywork off staff plates. A Y Combinator Winter 2025 company founded in 2024 by Johnny Chen and Matthew Kerrigan, it sells a subscription service to dental clinics looking to collect more, faster, with smaller back-office teams.
Respiree is a Singapore-founded digital health company (an A*STAR spin-off) building clinically validated AI that pairs FDA-cleared cardio-respiratory wearable sensors with software to track lung and heart biomarkers over time. Its 1Bio platform helps hospitals, health systems and biopharma detect patient deterioration - such as COPD flare-ups and heart failure - days in advance, powering remote patient monitoring, clinical decision support and decentralized clinical trials across Asia-Pacific, Australia and the United States.
Autonomize AI is an Austin-based healthcare technology company building an AI-native platform - the 'Autonomize Intelligence Platform' - that embeds governed, agentic AI directly into clinical and operational workflows for health plans, providers, and life sciences organizations. Founded in 2022 by Ganesh Padmanabhan and Kris Nair, the company turns mountains of unstructured healthcare data into structured intelligence, deploying pre-built AI agents and copilots for tasks like utilization review, prior authorization, care management, and clinical chart review. It says its systems save roughly 36,000 clinical hours per month across Fortune 100 healthcare customers, and it raised a $28 million Series A in June 2025 led by Valtruis, The Cigna Group Ventures, and Tau Ventures.
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.
Blooming Health is a New York-based social care technology company using AI to automate access to social services for older adults and vulnerable populations. Its AI-assisted, multilingual platform engages people across text, voice, and email to detect needs, screen for benefits, and connect them to services like meals, transportation, housing assistance, and Medicaid or SNAP recertification. Sold to Area Agencies on Aging, government agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers, the platform has connected over 1.5 million people across roughly two dozen states and raised $32.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025.
CloudLex is a New York-based legal technology company that builds cloud-native case management software purpose-built for plaintiff personal injury law firms. Its platform runs a PI practice end to end - from client intake and matter management through medical records retrieval, client communication, e-signatures, and settlement - and layers in Lexee AI for demand drafting, medical summaries, and 24/7 client assistance, plus human-powered paralegal services. Founded in 2015 by Dev and Sudhir Shrotri, the company positions itself as a single ecosystem for personal injury firms rather than a generic legal tool.
Everyware is an Austin, Texas-based payments and customer-engagement company that lets businesses collect money and communicate with customers over text message. Founded in 2015 by Larry "Austin" Talley and Scott Orlinsky, its Pay By Text platform turns a mobile phone number into a payment method - customers receive an invoice by text or email and pay by replying, without downloading an app or logging in. Everyware combines two-way SMS messaging, online and in-person payments, recurring billing, and identity-verification tools for merchants in healthcare, travel, automotive, nonprofit, retail, and utilities.
Flume Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company building operational infrastructure that connects the fragmented data ecosystem behind health plans. Founded in 2017 by Cedric Kovacs-Johnson and Vineeth Bhuvanagiri, Flume gives payers, third-party administrators, and vendors a way to move, translate, and make sense of healthcare data. It started as a plan administrator, pivoted to the Relay integration platform, and has since evolved into an AI-native data platform - mapping enterprise data estates into a living knowledge graph and running domain-specific AI agents so non-technical teams can query and act on healthcare data in plain language.
Insight Health AI is a physician-built healthcare technology company in Austin, Texas that builds voice-first and chat-based AI agents to automate routine clinical and administrative work - from patient intake, phone triage, and fax and referral processing to ambient clinical documentation. Founded in 2023 by a former Segment sales-engineering leader and two practicing physicians, the company sells its Lumi care assistant, Aura AI scribe, and specialty-specific agents to clinics and regional health systems. It raised an $11M Series A led by Standard Capital in April 2026, and reports more than 3 million autonomous patient interactions and roughly $50 million in annualized administrative savings across its customers.
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.
Players Health is a Minneapolis-based sports insurtech that combines a digital risk-management platform with tailored insurance products so youth, amateur and collegiate sports organizations can keep athletes safe and stay compliant. Founded in 2015 by former pro football player Tyrre Burks, the company pairs safety assessments, background checks, incident tracking and HIPAA-compliant education with sports-specific coverage. It supports more than 40,000 sports organizations and over 5.5 million athletes, and in December 2024 closed a $60 million Series C led by Bluestone Equity Partners.
Reveal HealthTech is a New York-based AI transformation partner for U.S. healthcare and life sciences organizations. Founded in 2023 and incubated by W Health Ventures and 2070 Health, the company pairs clinical expertise with engineering and design to turn AI concepts into deployed products for hospitals, pharma, and digital health innovators. Its flagship products include BioCanvas for clinical trial recruitment, Prism AI for workflow automation, and CareIQ for care coordination. Reveal raised a $7.2M Series A led by Leo Capital in September 2025 and runs teams across the U.S. and Bengaluru, India.
Wheel is an Austin-based virtual care company that provides the behind-the-scenes infrastructure powering telehealth for health plans, retailers, pharma and digital health brands. Rather than running its own branded clinic, Wheel supplies a configurable platform, a nationwide network of licensed clinicians and the compliance and operations layer companies need to launch and scale virtual care programs. Its Horizon platform, launched in 2024, layers AI and condition-specific care programs on top of a data-first EHR. Wheel says it has delivered care to more than four million people and has raised roughly $216 million, including a $150 million Series C in 2022.
Claritas Rx is a South San Francisco-based health-tech company that turns fragmented specialty pharmacy, channel, and clinical data into actionable intelligence for biopharmaceutical manufacturers. Its AI-powered Ascend platform integrates disparate patient-level data sources so drug makers can see how their specialty and rare-disease products perform, identify access barriers, and coordinate patient support - helping more patients start and stay on therapy.
DataCare is a San Jose, California software company that builds cloud-based tools for the workers' compensation and managed care industry. Its Ahshay platform unifies medical case management, utilization review, and document workflows in one HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 certified system, helping insurers, third-party administrators, self-insured employers, and nurse case managers process medical claims faster while keeping evidence-based, defensible documentation.
100ms builds voice-first AI agents for U.S. healthcare operations. Founded in 2020 as a low-code live video and audio infrastructure platform, the company pivoted to healthcare, applying its real-time communications expertise to automate patient access workflows - benefits verification, prior authorization, referral intake, scheduling, and intake - so care teams spend less time on phones and patients start treatment faster. Its agents are built to be HIPAA-compliant, with clinical safety guardrails and human escalation.
Barti builds an AI-powered electronic health record and practice management platform built specifically for eye care providers, replacing the patchwork of legacy tools optometry and ophthalmology practices use for charting, scheduling, billing, phones and payments with a single connected system.
Convey is a San Francisco AI workforce platform that lets non-technical operators build, train, and manage "digital teammates" - AI workers that take over repetitive operational tasks like invoice processing, financial reconciliation, and campaign reporting without any engineering. Founded in 2025 by former DoorDash early engineer Rohan Chopra with Stanford friends Will Harvey and Diego Canales, Convey raised a $38M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026 and says it has completed more than one million hours of real work for enterprises including NBCUniversal, Unity, Samsara, and Faire.
DeepScribe is a San Francisco-based health-tech company building an ambient AI medical scribe that listens to natural doctor-patient conversations and turns them into complete, structured clinical notes in real time. Founded in 2017, the company has narrowed its focus to oncology, where it says it serves roughly 90% of U.S. community oncology organizations, and layers on tools for coding, pre-visit prep, and specialty-specific customization. The pitch is straightforward: let clinicians look at their patients instead of their keyboards, and cut the after-hours documentation that drives burnout.
Develop Health is a San Francisco Bay Area healthtech company building AI that removes the paperwork between a doctor writing a prescription and a patient actually getting it. Its EHR-integrated platform uses more than a dozen purpose-built large language model pipelines to verify insurance coverage in real time, assemble and submit the correct prior authorization package, track status, and draft appeals for denials - work that normally consumes hours of a care team's day. Founded in 2022 by former Canvas Medical and Rupa Health operators, the company raised a $14.3M Series A in August 2025 and says it cuts medication-access admin work by roughly 83% while supporting hundreds of thousands of patients a month.
Doctronic is a New York-based health technology company building an AI-native primary care platform. Its free, anonymous AI doctor gives instant symptom assessments and treatment guidance grounded in peer-reviewed research, and connects patients to licensed physicians for $39 video visits or an insurance copay. Founded in 2023 by technologist Matt Pavelle and vascular surgeon Dr. Adam Oskowitz, the company has processed more than 15 million medical conversations, became the first AI to legally renew prescriptions in the U.S. under Utah's regulatory sandbox, and has raised $65 million across three rounds in under a year.
Luminai is an AI-native workflow automation platform built for the back office of American healthcare. It turns messy, unstructured inputs - faxes, chart notes, insurance forms - into structured data and then runs full administrative workflows like referral intake, patient registration, and denial appeals end to end, with a human in the loop and HIPAA/SOC 2 controls baked in. Founded in 2019 by Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran and Dmitry Dolgopolov, the company started life as customer-support RPA tool DigitalBrain, pivoted entirely into healthcare, and raised a $38M Series B in April 2026 led by Peak XV Partners, with Cleveland Clinic as a flagship partner.
Onymos is a Palo Alto software company that sells enterprises pre-built application features and data-processing modules instead of finished apps. Its Features-as-a-Service model bundles UI, backend logic, and cloud functions - login, chat, biometrics, storage - into drop-in components, all built on a self-described 'no-data architecture' where Onymos never captures or stores customer data. In recent years the company has focused its intake and AI tooling (DocKnow, LabFlow, SmartSync, DeviceFlow) on healthcare and life sciences, automating the document and data intake that clinical and diagnostic labs handle every day.
Stedi is an API-first, cloud-native healthcare clearinghouse that sits between providers and payers to move essential transactions - eligibility checks, claims, claim status, and electronic remittances - as programmable API calls instead of legacy batch files. Founded in 2017 by Zack Kanter, who came to EDI through an auto-parts business, Stedi rebuilt clearinghouse plumbing from scratch for the API and AI-agent era. It connects to thousands of U.S. payers, processes more than a billion transactions annually, and has raised $142 million from investors including Stripe, Addition, USV, and First Round.
Apero Health is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed healthcare software company that folds scheduling, clinical visit notes, revenue cycle management, patient billing, e-prescriptions, and financial reporting into a single API-first platform. Founded in 2019 by Jacinda and Nick Shelly, Apero aims to bring transparency and speed to the notoriously opaque business of getting doctors paid - promising implementation in under a day, claim denials cut through custom validation rules, and payer enrollment across all 50 states.