Standard Practice builds voice AI for healthcare revenue cycle teams. Its AI agents place outbound phone calls to insurance payors and pharmacies - dialing, navigating IVR menus, waiting on hold, and speaking in a human-sounding voice - to handle claim follow-ups, benefits verification, prior authorizations, and EDI enrollment. The goal is to strip the phone-tag drudgery out of medical billing so practices get paid more, faster, while staff focus on higher-value work. Founded by Steven Greene and Phil Markunas after pivoting from their earlier venture Nibble Health, the New York company targets the roughly $1 trillion in annual U.S. healthcare administrative costs.
Nick Shelly is the co-founder and CEO of Apero Health, a Y Combinator-backed (S19) medical-billing and revenue-cycle company in San Francisco that helps healthcare practices get paid faster and gives patients clearer bills. Before software, he was a computer scientist with an unusually wide runway: a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a Stanford CS researcher in computer networking, and an engineer at Apple, Nicira, and Forward Networks. He turned that systems-and-networks training toward one of the least glamorous, most broken corners of American life - the medical bill - and built Apero with co-founder Jacinda Shelly to fix the plumbing behind it.
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.
Sam Schwager is the co-founder and CEO of SuperDial, a San Francisco voice-AI company that automates the high-volume phone calls between healthcare billing teams and insurance payers. A Stanford computer scientist and former McKinsey consultant, he started the company with college classmate Harrison Caruthers after a personal run-in with out-of-network insurance reimbursement turned into a business. SuperDial raised a $15M Series A led by SignalFire in June 2025 and is taking aim at the roughly $1 trillion the US spends each year on healthcare admin.
Nick Perry is the co-founder and CEO of Candid Health, a San Francisco-based AI-powered revenue cycle management platform that is rebuilding how healthcare billing works from the ground up. A Stanford-trained biomedical informaticist and five-year Palantir veteran, Perry founded Candid in 2019 with co-founders Doug Proctor and Adam Reis to solve one of healthcare's most stubborn problems: the $280 billion annual cost of incorrect medical claims. Candid's platform focuses on submitting claims correctly the first time - rather than fixing them after denial - and has scaled to serve 200+ healthcare organizations with 95%+ touchless claim rates, nearly 250% revenue growth in 2024, and $99.5 million in total funding.