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Shawn Shivdat
Shawn Shivdat is the co-founder and CEO of Penciled (YC W24), a San Francisco startup that builds an AI front office assistant for physical therapy clinics. Raised around a mother's private practice and trained in computational neuroscience at Harvard, he went from writing patient-outcome software at Massachusetts General Hospital to launching a company that fills canceled appointments and completes plans of care automatically. Penciled now serves 200+ providers across 50+ clinics and has raised over $2.6M.
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.
Jen Wirt
Jen Wirt is the founder and CEO of Coral Care, a venture-backed digital health company that sends licensed pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapists into families' homes and bills their insurance directly. She started the company in 2023 after her own daughter's developmental delays sent her through six months of waitlists and thousands of dollars in out-of-network bills. A former product manager in consumer electronics and digital health, Wirt built Coral Care as a three-sided platform that pairs families needing care with clinicians who want to build sustainable private practices. By early 2026 the company had raised $19.5M, operated across five states, and grown a network of 400+ providers.