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The $149 Gatekeeper Standing Between 5 Million Apartments and a Bad Contractor
NetVendor built a business around the least glamorous risk in real estate: the contractor whose insurance looked fine last month. Its wager is that compliance should stop bad work before it starts - not explain it after the claim.
Ashish Mandavia Is Fixing the Six-Second Moment Before Care Begins
A physician left the ward, learned the machinery of growth, and found his company in healthcare's overlooked doorway. Now Sohar Health is turning insurance verification from a waiting game into infrastructure.
Mantys
Mantys is a Y Combinator W23 company founded by Kriti Arora and Mudit Dangi. It began as a real-time ARR reporting and forecasting tool that pulled revenue data out of the spreadsheets SaaS finance teams live in, and has since moved into healthcare, building AI that automates patient insurance eligibility verification for revenue cycle management. In both incarnations the pitch is the same: take a slow, error-prone, spreadsheet-and-phone-call process and let software do it in real time.
Sohar Health
Sohar Health is an API-first platform that automates insurance eligibility checks and verification of benefits (VoB) for behavioral and digital health providers. Founded in 2023 by physician Ashish Mandavia and engineer Lucas Gordon, the company turns a slow, error-prone front-office task into a real-time API call - returning most checks in seconds with high accuracy - so clinics can confirm coverage, cut claim denials, and get paid faster. It graduated from Y Combinator (S23) and raised $3.8M in seed funding led by Kindred Capital in 2025.
Toothy AI
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.
Cedar
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.
Jones
Jones is a New York-based vertical AI software company that automates insurance compliance for commercial real estate and construction. Its platform collects Certificates of Insurance (COIs), endorsements and policies, verifies coverage against requirements using AI agents, chases down gaps with vendors and tenants, and integrates bi-directionally with property and construction ERP systems. Founded in 2017 by Omri Stern and Michael Rudman, Jones manages insurance risk across roughly 2.7 billion square feet of properties and construction projects.
Silna Health
Silna Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company that built what it calls the first ever "care readiness platform." It uses AI paired with insurance specialists to handle prior authorizations, benefit checks, and insurance monitoring upfront - clearing patients for care before their appointments. Founded in 2023 by Jeffrey Morelli, Pavel Asparouhov, and Sagar Jajoo, the company has raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures and says it has cut pre-visit insurance verification from roughly 30 minutes to 30 seconds.
Jeffrey Morelli
Jeffrey Morelli is the co-founder and CEO of Silna Health, a New York company building an AI-powered Care Readiness Platform that automates prior authorizations, benefit checks, eligibility verification, and insurance monitoring for specialty healthcare providers. The son of a career nurse, he was the first sales hire at income-verification startup Truework and earlier worked at autism-care company Nightingale before starting Silna in August 2023 with Pavel Asparouhov and Sagar Jajoo. Silna has raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures and has helped more than 50,000 patients get cleared for care. In 2025 Morelli was named among the Healthcare Technology Report's Top Healthcare Technology CEOs.
Kelvin Chan
Kelvin Chan is a co-founder of Nirvana, a New York healthtech company that uses machine learning and data science to turn insurance verification and cost estimation into something providers and patients can trust. He leads product and serves as president. A Columbia-trained neuroscientist who spent years building enterprise data software at Enigma, Chan started Nirvana in 2019 after a frustrating personal experience trying to find out whether his insurance would cover a therapist. The company has raised $24.2M in Series A funding led by Northzone and now powers eligibility checks across digital health platforms and provider offices nationwide.
Canopy Connect
Canopy Connect is a San Francisco-based insurtech that acts as the connective tissue between consumers, insurance carriers, and businesses. Often called "Plaid for insurance," its API and no-code tools let people securely share verified insurance details - auto, home, and commercial policies - in about 20 seconds by logging into their carrier. Insurance agencies, carriers, lenders, and other insurtechs use the platform to pull structured, real-time policy data instead of asking customers to type it all out or upload documents.
Paul Szemerenyi
Paul Szemerenyi is the CEO of Jones, an AI-powered insurance verification platform for the construction and real estate industries, appointed in January 2026 after co-founder Omri Stern moved to the board. He has more than 20 years running go-to-market at high-growth SaaS companies including Allbound (CEO), Bizzabo (CRO), Fuze, Appboy/Braze, AppSense and 1E, and before that served as an officer on nuclear submarines in the Royal Navy.
Sandy Health
Sandy Health is a San Francisco healthtech company building an AI-powered operations platform that acts as the financial layer for healthcare. It connects scheduling, intake, eligibility verification, prior authorization, an AI clinical scribe, and revenue intelligence into one system so providers can predict reimbursement before, during, and after every visit. Founded by cancer survivor and MIT-trained engineer Diego Saavedra-Kloss, Sandy targets the administrative friction that drains time and revenue from patient care.
Verse Medical
Verse Medical is a New York-based healthtech company building the software infrastructure for in-home healthcare, starting with durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. Its platform helps hospitals, payors, and care teams order and coordinate equipment like catheters, wound dressings, and diabetes supplies - replacing a fax-and-phone-call process with real-time insurance verification, medical-record-level documentation checks, and centralized order tracking. Founded in 2018 by Dhaivat Pandya out of Y Combinator, Verse today works with many of the largest U.S. health systems and is backed by investors including SignalFire, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Abstract Ventures.
Zocdoc
Zocdoc is a New York-based healthcare marketplace that lets patients find in-network doctors and dentists, read verified reviews, and book in-person or telehealth appointments in real time - free for patients, paid for by providers who advertise their open slots. Founded in 2007 after a co-founder's burst eardrum exposed how hard it is to get a timely appointment, Zocdoc now serves millions of patients monthly across all 50 states, hundreds of specialties, and thousands of insurance plans, and in 2025 added Zo, an AI voice agent that answers scheduling calls 24/7.
SuperDial
SuperDial is a San Francisco voice AI company that builds agents to handle the endless administrative phone calls between healthcare providers, billing companies and insurers - navigating phone trees, waiting on hold, and conducting live conversations with payer reps. Its agents automate benefits verification, prior authorizations, claim status follow-up, credentialing and provider data attestation, logging structured results directly into a customer's EHR or RCM platform. Founded by Stanford classmates Sam Schwager and Harrison Caruthers (originally as the billing startup SuperBill), the company launched in late 2023, scaled to seven-figure revenue and tens of thousands of calls per week, and raised a $15M Series A in June 2025 led by SignalFire.
Archy
Archy is a San Jose-based cloud platform that replaces the five-plus aging tools most dental offices duct-tape together — scheduling, charting, billing, imaging, insurance, payments, messaging and reporting — with one login, one mobile app, and a stack of AI agents that quietly do the busywork.
MeasureOne
MeasureOne is a San Francisco-based data infrastructure company that operates a Consumer-Permissioned Data Platform-as-a-Service. Through a single API, businesses can verify income, employment, education, and insurance directly from the source - only with the consumer's explicit consent.
Wisdom
Wisdom is a New York-based AI-powered dental revenue cycle management platform that helps dental practices collect more from insurers, faster. Founded in 2023 by fintech veteran Stoyan Kenderov and billing expert Ashley Bond, Wisdom pairs proprietary AI with dedicated human billing teams to handle the full claims lifecycle — from insurance verification to denial appeals. The company has raised $28M in funding and reports that over 98% of clients see increased insurance billing revenues after joining.
Elan Amir
Elan Amir is the CEO of MeasureOne, a San Francisco-based consumer-permissioned data platform that enables businesses to verify income, employment, education, and insurance data with consumer consent. A UC Berkeley PhD in Computer Science, Amir brings decades of deep technical and operational experience - from co-founding a broadcast media company acquired by Inktomi, to serving as CTO at early mobile web pioneer OmniSky, to leading Bivio Networks as CEO for nine years through a cybersecurity pivot. He joined MeasureOne as COO in 2018 and became CEO in 2019, guiding the company to raise $7.1M and forge major partnerships with Experian, BeSmartee, and GDSLink.