home-health
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Kunal Sarda
Kunal Sarda is the co-founder and CEO of Arya Health, a New York startup building AI-powered digital agents that automate the administrative work behind home health, home care, and hospice. He raised an $18.2M Series A led by ACME Capital in 2025, bringing Arya's total funding to roughly $25M. Before Arya, Sarda co-founded VerbalizeIt, a human-powered translation platform that appeared on Shark Tank and was acquired by Smartling in 2016, where he then led customer engagement. A Wharton MBA, he named the company after his daughter, Arya.
David Bell
David Bell is the founder and CEO of IO Health, a Pasadena-based AI startup building a real-time workflow intelligence layer that sits on top of existing EMRs to help home health and hospice clinicians document care accurately at the point of care. Before IO Health he spent roughly a decade as owner-operator and CEO of GrandCare Health Services, which he grew into a 5-star-rated Southern California home health provider before it was acquired by The Pennant Group in 2025. An engineer-turned-operator with degrees spanning physics, business, and rehabilitation robotics, Bell raised a $2M seed round led by Nina Capital in October 2025 to scale IO Health's compliance and quality platform.
Mike Asselta
Mike Asselta is the chief executive officer of Compassus, one of the largest home-based care companies in the United States, spanning home health, hospice, palliative care and infusion therapy across some 200 locations. Appointed in May 2024, he came from nearly eight years at Fresenius Medical Care North America, where he ran U.S. care delivery and Fresenius Kidney Care - an operation of more than 60,000 employees and 4,000 sites. At Compassus he has bet the company's growth on joint ventures with major health systems like Providence and OhioHealth, arguing that the future of care happens where people actually live: at home.
Eric Steege
Eric Steege is the CEO and cofounder of Olli Health, a Madison, Wisconsin healthtech startup using AI to handle home-health agency coding, OASIS review, and clinical documentation. After more than four years as a product lead on Amazon Alexa's generative AI and subscriptions team - where he launched Alexa's first direct-to-consumer subscription for older adults and caregivers - he co-founded Olli in 2023 to cut the cost and turnaround time of the paperwork that slows down home health reimbursement. By late 2025 the company served over 100 home health agencies and raised a $10M Series A led by Industry Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $13M.
David Pearlstein
David Pearlstein is the Chief Executive Officer of New Horizons In-Home Care, Oregon's largest in-home care agency with over 570 employees and 12 locations statewide. A serial entrepreneur with 30+ years spanning healthcare, insurance, and real estate, Pearlstein built and sold multiple companies before taking the helm at New Horizons — transforming it into an award-winning, people-first organization recognized for both care quality and employer culture. Based in Lafayette, California, he leads a company providing around-the-clock care to seniors, adults with disabilities, and medically fragile children across Oregon.