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Primary Record Started With a Medical Binder. Then It Found the Bigger Business Hiding Outside the Hospital.
A nurse and her software-veteran neighbor built an app to replace caregivers’ bursting binders. The harder lesson was that downloading records is only the first mile - the real business is helping families and community teams use them when care changes hands.
Chetan Reddy
Chetan Reddy is the co-founder and CEO of Confido Health, a New York based startup building AI voice and messaging agents that answer patient calls around the clock and complete routine front-office work like scheduling, refills, eligibility checks and reminders. He started the company after watching the administrative load of the US healthcare system firsthand when his wife had spine surgery, and has grown Confido to more than 1,000 clinical sites and millions of patient interactions. An engineer by training from BITS Pilani, he previously built AI systems for drone mapping and a fitness app before turning to healthcare operations.
BetterHealthcare
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.
Confido Health
Confido Health builds AI voice and messaging agents that answer patient phone calls for healthcare providers around the clock. The agents pick up on the first ring, authenticate callers, check insurance eligibility, and resolve routine requests end-to-end - scheduling, refills, referrals, payments, intake and post-visit follow-up - writing every interaction back into the practice's EHR or practice-management system. Founded in 2023 and based in New York, the company raised a $10M Series A in September 2025 and provides access to more than 1 million patients.
Shorla Oncology
Shorla Oncology is a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Clonmel, Ireland, with a U.S. base in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that develops and commercializes innovative oncology drugs for orphan and pediatric cancers. Founded in 2018 by Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan, Shorla focuses on indications where existing treatments are limited, in shortage, or poorly suited to patients - reformulating and reinventing cancer therapies into easier-to-administer forms such as oral liquids and ready-to-dilute vials. The company markets four FDA-approved products in the U.S. and is advancing an early-stage pipeline addressing rare cancers.
Greg Peters
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.
100ms
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.
PARx Solutions
PARx Solutions is a Burlington, Massachusetts healthcare technology and services company that untangles one of medicine's most frustrating chores: prior authorization. Its Prior Authorization Support System (PASS) pairs a secure web portal with a call center of healthcare and reimbursement specialists who handle the paperwork and back-and-forth with health plans on a prescriber's behalf. Because the service is sponsored by drug manufacturers, it is free to physician offices and pharmacies, and it helps patients actually get the medications their doctors prescribed rather than abandoning treatment in the administrative maze.
PrescriberPoint
PrescriberPoint is a Boston-based, AI-enabled point-of-care platform that supports clinicians at every step of the prescribing journey - from researching FDA-approved drug information to checking coverage and out-of-pocket costs, submitting prior authorizations, and enrolling patients in savings programs. Spun out of work with Eli Lilly and BCG, it consolidates fragmented prescribing resources for tens of thousands of medications into one portal, and in 2025 reached more than 5 million healthcare professionals - one of the largest active HCP networks in digital health.
WovenX Health
WovenX Health (formerly Telebelly Health) is a Chicago-based digital health company that weaves on-demand virtual specialty care into existing gastroenterology, hepatology, and urology practices. It pairs specialty-trained Advanced Practice Providers with real-time MD supervision and an AI-guided software platform to shrink wait times, speed patients to procedures like colonoscopy, and expand capacity for practices and health systems without adding staff or brick-and-mortar.
Dan Rubin
Dan Rubin is President and CEO of PARx Solutions, a Burlington, Massachusetts healthtech company that runs the Prior Authorization Support System (PASS), a service that helps physician offices push prescriptions past insurer prior-authorization roadblocks at no cost to the practice. A chemical engineer by training who switched to building businesses, Rubin co-founded medication-adherence pioneer Adheris in 1993, ran it for fifteen years, then took the helm at PARx in 2012. He has spent three decades on a single problem: the gap between a doctor writing a prescription and a patient actually getting the medicine.
Eesha Sharma
Eesha Sharma is the founder and CEO of Lamar Health, a Y Combinator-backed (W21) startup that uses AI to automate the mountain of paperwork standing between patients and high-cost specialty drugs. A genetics PhD from the University of Toronto and former Stanford postdoc, she traded antisense-oligonucleotide research for the unglamorous fight against prior-authorization bureaucracy after watching a family member endure years of misdiagnosis. Lamar Health now serves specialty pharmacies, infusion clinics and hospitals, automating prior auths, document review and EHR connectivity for medications that average roughly $70,000 a year per patient.
Assort Health
Assort Health builds specialty-specific voice AI agents that answer patient phone calls for medical practices and health systems, resolving them rather than routing them. Trained on more than 150 million patient interactions and integrated directly into EHR and practice-management systems, its agentic platform schedules appointments, triages, verifies insurance, handles refills and follows up with patients across 20+ specialties. Founded in 2023 by Jeff Liu and Jon Wang, the San Francisco company raised a $76M Series B in 2025, bringing total funding to $102M.
Health Note
Health Note is a healthcare AI company that automates the administrative work surrounding a clinical visit. Founded by physician Joshua Reischer, MD, its platform collects patient information before an appointment through conversational texting and AI voice agents, then turns that data into structured EHR documentation and pre-written clinical notes. The goal is to cut the paperwork and phone-tag that drives physician burnout, shorten check-in times, and let care teams spend more time with patients and less with screens.
SamaCare
SamaCare is a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company that runs the leading medical-benefit prior authorization platform for specialty medications. Its cloud-based, AI-assisted software replaces the fax-and-phone paperwork that delays patients from receiving life-changing biologics, automating submission, tracking, benefit verification, and enrollment across major US payers. The platform serves specialty practices in retina, oncology, neurology, and rheumatology, plus pharmaceutical manufacturers who use SamaCare's real-time data to improve patient access.
Jon Wang
Jon Wang is the co-founder and co-CEO of Assort Health, a San Francisco company building voice AI agents that answer the phone for doctors' offices. A Stanford bioinformatics graduate and Gates-Cambridge Scholar who walked away from UCSF medical school, Wang spent two years studying why patients wait on hold before launching Assort with Jeff Liu in 2023. The company has since handled more than 42 million patient interactions and raised $102 million, including a $76 million Series B led by Lightspeed in 2025.
SafeRide Health
SafeRide Health is a technology and services company rebuilding non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations. Founded in 2016 by brothers Robbins and Whit Schrader with Ben Salter, SafeRide pairs proprietary scheduling and dispatch software with a nationwide network of 600+ credentialed transport providers and rideshare partners to get vulnerable patients to the right care at the right time. The company now delivers more than one million rides per month across all 50 states and has been profitable since 2024.
Richard Fine
Richard Fine is Chief Business Officer at Zocdoc, where for more than a decade he has helped turn a doctor-booking marketplace into what he calls 'healthcare access infrastructure.' A two-time founder with two exits, he built Help Remedies, the over-the-counter brand that made aspirin boxes funny and won a Cannes Lion, and spent years as a brand strategist at Redscout working with Nike, PepsiCo and Diageo. Oxford-trained in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and raised by two epidemiology professors, he frames his work simply: he loves healthcare and hates its incentives, and at Zocdoc he gets to fix both.
Syam Palakurthy
Syam Palakurthy is the co-founder and CEO of SamaCare, a San Francisco healthcare-technology company that rips paper and fax out of the specialty-drug prior authorization process. After a Dartmouth engineering-and-economics degree and a stint at Bain (where he once asked to be staffed on anything but healthcare), he built a cloud platform that now connects 15,000+ providers across retina, oncology, neurology, and rheumatology, and has raised roughly $35 million to make getting a patient on therapy 'as simple as a credit card swipe.'
House Rx
House Rx is a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company that partners with specialty clinics to enable medically integrated dispensing (MID) - a model where physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and care coordinators work together as one unified team. Founded in 2021 by Flatiron Health veterans Ogi Kavazovic and Tesh Khullar, the company builds AI-enabled pharmacy management software that keeps specialty medications dispensed at the point of care, cutting average time-to-therapy from 15.5 days to 3.5 days and achieving 95% medication adherence. With $100M raised across Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, House Rx serves 80 clinic sites, 1,000+ providers, and nearly 61,000 patients, processing approximately $1.5 billion in specialty prescriptions annually.
Luma Health
Luma Health is a San Mateo healthcare technology company building an Operational AI platform that unifies patient access, scheduling, intake, communication, and payments. Its Spark multi-model AI powers products like Navigator (voice concierge) and Fax Transform, used by more than 650 health systems and clinics serving over 55 million patients across 200,000+ providers.
Notable
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.
Josh Rose
Josh Rose is the CEO of Hawthorne Health, Inc. (formerly Hawthorne Effect), a Walnut Creek-based company building the largest community-based clinical trial site network in the U.S. A clinical research industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, Rose previously led decentralized clinical trial strategy at IQVIA and CVS Health before taking the helm at Hawthorne Health in early 2024. Under his leadership, Hawthorne has expanded to 75+ community locations, partnered with 40+ pharma sponsors, and pioneered a model that embeds certified clinical research staff inside independent pharmacies and patients' homes - bringing trials to communities that traditional research networks have long bypassed.
Pranay Kapadia
Pranay Kapadia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Notable, an AI-powered automation platform for healthcare that eliminates administrative burden for clinicians and health systems. Founded in 2017 after dinner-table conversations with six physician family members - including his psychiatrist wife who called herself 'the highest paid data collector in the world' - Notable has grown to serve 32 million patients across 12,000 sites of care, raised $119.2M in funding including a $100M Series B in 2021, and now automates over one million repetitive healthcare workflows daily. Before Notable, Kapadia helped build Mint.com at Intuit and was on the founding team at Blend, the mortgage fintech unicorn.