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Shubh Sinha
Shubh Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Integral Privacy Technologies, a San Francisco company that certifies, transforms, and activates privacy-regulated data (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA) for healthcare and other regulated industries. Integral compresses compliance workflows that once took months into hours. Before Integral, Sinha led regulated-data product work at LiveRamp. He is a Purdue-trained computer engineer, an angel investor, and a Forbes Technology Council member. In July 2026 the company raised its Series A, bringing total funding to about $25M.
Zain Qayyum
Zain Qayyum is the co-founder and co-CEO of Medsender, a New York based healthcare automation company that uses AI to turn faxes, emails and phone calls into structured data that flows straight into patient records. A pre-med student who walked away from medicine after watching hospitals shuttle paper and CDs between systems, he built a platform now used by thousands of practices across all 50 states. In early 2025 Medsender raised a $5M Series A led by Ballast Point Ventures while already cash-positive, and the company debuted on the 2025 Inc. 5000 at #550.
Karun Kaushik
Karun Kaushik is the co-founder and CEO of Delve, a San Francisco AI compliance startup he launched in 2023 with fellow MIT student Selin Kocalar after the pair dropped out sophomore year. What began as an AI medical scribe pivoted into automated SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance after the founders ran into the paperwork themselves. Delve raced through Y Combinator to a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation, landed both founders on Forbes 30 Under 30, and served more than 1,500 companies before a 2026 whistleblower controversy put its audit practices under a harsh spotlight.
Arash Jafari
Arash Jafari is the CEO and co-founder of Clearpol, a San Francisco healthtech company that builds AI to help post-acute and long-term care providers manage regulatory compliance and clinical risk. A former NASA JPL and Langley engineer, he traded interplanetary robotics simulations and severe-weather prediction for one of healthcare's least glamorous frontiers: the survey deficiency. Clearpol's AI now acts as a 'co-pilot' for skilled nursing facilities, drafting Plans of Correction, monitoring clinical data, and flagging regulatory risk before it escalates - trusted by 900+ facilities, with 3,000+ Plans of Correction written.
Maria Szandrach
Maria Szandrach is the co-founder and CEO of Mentalyc, a San Francisco clinical-intelligence platform that turns recorded therapy sessions into insurance-ready notes, treatment plans, and progress insights for psychotherapists. A McKinsey strategy alum with an MSc from London Business School, she has co-founded three startups across the mental health and insurance worlds. She built Mentalyc with engineer Georgi Urumov during the COVID pandemic after the two met through Entrepreneur First, later going through Berkeley SkyDeck. Maria has become a recognizable voice on what AI should and should not do inside the therapy room, arguing for slow, careful building in a field where over-promising is dangerous.
Andrew Kress
Andrew Kress is the co-founder and CEO of HealthVerity, the Philadelphia company that built one of the largest real-world healthcare data ecosystems and the technology to link, govern and exchange it without exposing patient identities. An English major from Yale who spent his career inside the plumbing of healthcare data - running SDI Health, then leading Healthcare Value Solutions at IMS Health - he started HealthVerity in 2014 to make fragmented, privacy-bound health data usable. The company raised $100M in Series D funding in 2021 led by Durable Capital Partners. Kress also serves on the boards of Philadelphia cultural institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scrut Automation, a SaaS-based GRC platform that automates compliance and risk management for mid-market and enterprise companies. A former McKinsey consultant and IIT Ropar / ISB graduate, he co-built Scrut after experiencing firsthand how compliance bottlenecks stall enterprise sales - discovering the solution while trying to sell a different product entirely. Under his leadership, Scrut has grown to 800+ customers globally, raised $20.5M from Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, and Endiya Partners, earned a LinkedIn Top 20 Startup 2024 ranking, and been recognized by G2 as a fastest-growing and highest-satisfaction product in security compliance.
Balaji Ganesan
Balaji Ganesan is Co-Founder and CEO of Privacera (now Trust3 AI), the data security and AI governance platform built on top of Apache Ranger technology he co-created. A survivor of the Miracle on the Hudson, he co-founded XA Secure in 2013, which was acquired by Hortonworks and open-sourced as Apache Ranger — now deployed across thousands of enterprises globally. He launched Privacera in 2016 to extend that governance vision to multi-cloud environments, raised $67.3M in total funding, and counts Nike, Intuit, and Autodesk among his customers.
Erez Druk
Erez Druk is the co-founder and CEO of Freed, an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation for physicians. A Technion-educated engineer who cut his teeth at Facebook, Druk built Freed after watching his wife - a family medicine physician - spend her evenings buried in patient notes. Since launching in 2023, Freed has grown to over 25,000 paying clinicians across 96 specialties, saved more than 2.7 million hours of documentation time, and raised a $30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital. Before Freed, Druk co-founded UrbanLeap, a government procurement platform that served 35 municipalities before closing in 2022.
Michelle Longmire
Dr. Michelle Longmire is the co-founder and CEO of Medable, the leading platform for agentic AI in clinical development. A Stanford-trained physician-scientist who grew up in a Los Alamos nuclear-research family, she pivoted from dermatology to founding Medable in 2015 after hitting enrollment walls in her own clinical research. Under her leadership, Medable has raised over $500 million in venture capital, deployed its platform in roughly 400 trials across 70 countries in 120 languages, and served more than one million patients globally - transforming how the world runs clinical trials.
Raghuveer Kancherla
Raghuveer Kancherla is the Co-Founder of Sprinto, a fast-growing compliance automation platform that helps SaaS companies earn security certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA faster and with far less manual effort. A mechanical engineer by training from IIT Madras turned software entrepreneur, Raghuveer previously co-founded and served as CTO of RecruiterBox - a bootstrapped applicant tracking system that grew to 2,500+ customers before being acquired. At Sprinto, he and co-founder Girish Redekar have built a platform trusted by 3,000+ companies across 75 countries, raised $31.5M in funding including a $20M Series B led by Accel in 2024, and grown the team from 6 to 300+ employees. An emerging thought leader on AI governance, Raghuveer is known for his conviction that 'a growing market trumps having a better product' and his systems-first approach to both engineering and team management.
Shiv Rao
Shiv Rao is the CEO and co-founder of Abridge, the AI platform transforming clinical conversations into structured medical documentation. A practicing cardiologist at UPMC and history-major-turned-physician, Rao founded Abridge in 2018 out of personal frustration with nightly dictation sessions. The company, now valued at $5.3 billion after raising $300M in Series E in 2025, deploys across 150+ U.S. health systems including Mayo Clinic, Duke Health, and Johns Hopkins, supports 28 languages and 55 medical specialties, and is used by over 50,000 clinicians. Rao is equal parts cardiologist, technologist, and artist — a former DJ, skateboarder, and avant-garde music producer whose unconventional path runs straight through the operating room.
Mat Malone
Mat Malone is the Chief Executive Officer of DataCare, a San Jose-based healthcare software company specializing in workers' compensation and medical management platforms. With over two decades at the company - rising from early engineering roles to Director of Engineering, Vice President of Engineering, and ultimately CEO - Malone has guided DataCare through large-scale platform modernization and the integration of advanced automation and AI capabilities into its flagship Ahshay! software suite. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and brings deep technical fluency to a leadership role that sits at the intersection of complex regulatory compliance, clinical workflow optimization, and enterprise software development.
Todd Gottula
Todd Gottula is CEO and Co-Founder of Clarify Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare analytics platform that maps over 300 million patient journeys and delivers 18 billion-plus AI-predicted precision insights. A Caltech-trained chemical engineer who spent over a decade as EVP and CTO at Advent Software (acquired by SS&C Technologies for $2.7B), Gottula co-founded Clarify in 2015 to bring the data intelligence of banking and consumer industries into healthcare. The company has raised over $401M in total funding, including a $150M Series D in 2022, and earned the #1 KLAS ranking in Data Analytics Platforms for Payers.
Anuj Khandelwal
Anuj Khandelwal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Empo Health, a San Bruno, CA-based medical device company developing in-home monitoring systems to prevent diabetic foot amputations. With a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and MS in Mechanical Engineering (Medical Devices) from Stanford, Khandelwal founded Empo Health in 2020 alongside co-founder Eric Dahlseng. The company's flagship product — Empo Footprint, an FDA-listed in-home imaging scale — lets diabetic patients monitor foot health from home, transmitting images to care teams for early intervention. In June 2025, Empo Health raised a $7 million round led by Story Ventures to commercialize its remote diabetic foot ulcer management system.
Reshma Khilnani
Reshma Khilnani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Medplum, an open-source, FHIR-native healthcare developer platform that gives builders the infrastructure to create custom EHRs, patient portals, and clinical apps without starting from scratch. A three-time founder with exits to Box and Ro, she previously built MedXT (YC W13) and Droplet Health before returning to Y Combinator as a Visiting Group Partner and then launching Medplum in the S22 batch. An MIT computer science graduate with deep expertise in healthcare regulation and payments infrastructure, she is one of the most technically fluent CEOs in digital health.
David Craig
David Craig, MD is the CEO of Spruce Health, a San Francisco-based HIPAA-compliant healthcare communication platform serving 25,000+ healthcare providers. A Stanford-trained emergency medicine physician who began coding in his teens, Craig brings rare dual fluency in medicine and software engineering. He joined Spruce in 2014 as Chief Medical Officer before taking the CEO role in late 2021, and still works weekly ER shifts to keep his clinical perspective sharp while leading a team building the communication infrastructure for modern healthcare.
Justin Liu
Justin Liu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Charta Health, a San Francisco-based AI healthcare operations company that automates medical chart review and billing/coding workflows. Having previously led growth at Rockset (acquired by OpenAI in 2024), Liu pivoted to healthcare, earning a Certified Professional Coder credential alongside his co-founder before raising over $30M to back their mission of making healthcare more affordable through AI. Charta Health's platform enables hospitals and health systems to review 100% of charts pre-billing, delivering an average 11% revenue uplift per chart.