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HCA Healthcare Built a Hospital Network Big Enough to Learn From Itself
The Nashville company turned a 1968 experiment in shared hospital resources into a vast care network. Its real edge is what happens when local medicine, centralized operations and 47 million annual patient encounters begin teaching one another.
Hanger, Inc.
Hanger began with a wooden leg fashioned from barrel staves during the Civil War. Today, its advantage is a 925-clinic feedback loop connecting patients, clinicians, research, fabrication and the supply chain.
Maria Manso
Maria Manso is the co-founder and CEO of Tucuvi, a Madrid-based healthtech company that builds LOLA, a clinical-grade voice AI agent used by more than 60 healthcare organizations to conduct automated patient follow-up calls. A biomedical engineer by training, she has raised over $21 million for the company, including a $20 million Series A round in January 2026, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2025 list for Science & Healthcare.
Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit academic health system that traces its roots to 1825. After absorbing Einstein Healthcare Network (2021) and Lehigh Valley Health Network (2024), it operates more than 30 hospitals and 700-plus care sites across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, paired with Thomas Jefferson University and a roughly 400,000-member health plan. It is now one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, with about $15 billion in annual revenue and roughly 65,000 employees.
El Camino Health
El Camino Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system that has served Silicon Valley and the South Bay for more than 60 years. Born from a 1950s community vote and a tax that residents levied on themselves, it runs two acute care hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos plus roughly two dozen care locations across Santa Clara County. With 471 beds, about 4,480 employees and 1,585 physicians, it blends a community-rooted mission with the technology-forward instincts of the valley it sits in.
Sarika Sood
Sarika Sood is a DDS practicing in Hayward, California, where she works as a Director of Care with Bright Now! Dental, the patient-facing brand of Smile Brands. She trained at MRA Dental College in India and built her chairside career across Northern California, focused on the kind of community-rooted general and cosmetic dentistry that keeps a retail dental office humming.
Sean Mehra
Sean Mehra is the co-founder and CEO of HealthTap, a Sunnyvale-based virtual-first primary and urgent care platform serving millions of Americans across all 50 states. A Yale biomedical engineering graduate and Stanford MBA, Mehra pivoted from aspiring physician to serial tech entrepreneur—building games companies with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous players before co-founding HealthTap during his first year at Stanford business school. Under his leadership as CEO (appointed June 2021), HealthTap has grown to serve over 350 million consumers, partnered with Samsung Health to embed virtual care in millions of Android devices, and launched Dr.A.I., an LLM-powered pre-visit interview system. Mehra also co-founded what is now Yale's TSAI City entrepreneurship incubator.
VELMENI
VELMENI is a Sunnyvale-based dental AI platform that uses computer vision and deep learning to analyze 2D and 3D dental radiographs in real time. Its FDA-cleared flagship product, VELMENI for DENTISTS, is the first dental AI approved to detect pathologies in panoramic X-rays — catching caries, bone loss, and other findings that experienced clinicians miss roughly one-third of the time. Beyond diagnostics, the platform automates insurance claims, enables voice-assisted periodontal charting, interprets CBCT scans, and delivers VR-based patient education, all from a single integrated workflow. Founded in 2020 by CEO Mini Suri and Chief Dental Officer Dr. Arvin Oberai, the company has been beta-tested by over 1,300 dentists across 500+ practices in 50+ countries.
Mini Suri
Mini Suri is the Co-Founder and CEO of VELMENI, a Silicon Valley-based FDA-cleared dental AI company that analyzes 2D and 3D dental X-rays to detect pathologies that even experienced dentists miss. Drawing on 20+ years at Citi, a stint building intelligent automation at Uber, and an MBA from MIT Sloan, she pivoted to healthtech after a personal brush with the cost of missed diagnoses. Under her leadership, VELMENI has grown to serve 500+ dental offices across 50+ countries with AI-powered tools for panoramic, bitewing, periapical, and CBCT imaging - aiming to bring affordable, high-quality dental diagnostics to one billion patients worldwide.
Shubhra Jain
Dr. Shubhra Jain, MD, MBA is Chief Business Officer at Hippocratic AI, the $3.5B generative AI healthcare company building the world's safest patient-facing AI agents. A rare triple threat - trained primary care physician, Stanford engineer (MS Biodesign), and Wharton MBA - she brings a decade of healthcare investing and product leadership to Hippocratic AI's commercial strategy. Before joining HAI, she led healthcare investing at Tarsadia Investments and Cota Capital, and held product leadership roles at Natera and Pieces Technologies. A first-generation immigrant from a small Indian town, she is a passionate advocate for health equity, underrepresented founders, and making healthcare abundant for all.