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Musheer Ahmed Is Moving Healthcare’s Error Check to the Moment Before the Bill
A cybersecurity dissertation became an Atlanta company with a precise thesis: the cheapest claim error is the one that never enters the system. Now Ahmed is pushing payment integrity from forensic cleanup toward prevention at “Point Zero.”
TJ Ademiluyi
TJ Ademiluyi is the CEO and co-founder of Alaffia Health, a New York healthcare-technology company that pairs licensed clinicians with agentic AI to review medical claims for health plans. Raised in a family that ran a medical-billing business, he traded a finance career at Goldman Sachs to build software that reads patient records, checks provider bills against policy, and flags overpayments before they are paid. He founded the company in 2020 with his older sister, Adun Akanni, was named to Forbes' 2023 30 Under 30 in Healthcare, and in February 2026 raised a $55 million Series B led by Transformation Capital, bringing total funding above $73 million.
Fawad Butt
Fawad Butt is the co-founder and CEO of Penguin AI, a Palo Alto-based healthcare AI platform company that raised $29.7M in Series A funding in September 2025. A former Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealthcare, and Optum, Butt spent years on the buyer side spending hundreds of millions on generic tech before deciding to build the solution healthcare actually needed. Penguin AI targets the $1 trillion annual administrative burden in US healthcare with purpose-built agentic AI, small language models, and digital workers that compress prior authorization reviews from 30 minutes to under two, positioning itself as 'the Epic of the healthcare back office.'