Ambience Healthcare builds an ambient AI platform for clinicians - an AI medical scribe and coding assistant that listens to patient visits, drafts structured notes in seconds, and pushes compliant ICD-10/CPT coding back into Epic, Cerner, and athenahealth. It is used by Cleveland Clinic, UCSF Health, Houston Methodist, Memorial Hermann and dozens of other systems.
Nikhil Buduma is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambience Healthcare, an ambient AI platform that automates clinical documentation, coding, and revenue integrity for health systems. A two-time International Biology Olympiad gold medalist, MIT-educated computer scientist, and author of O'Reilly's 'Fundamentals of Deep Learning,' Buduma built Ambience from the ground up - first by running a medical practice, then by creating the AI platform his clinicians needed. The company has raised $343M total, reached a $1.25B valuation after a $243M Series C in 2025, and built a platform that supports 100+ medical specialties across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings.
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.
PayZen is a San Francisco-based healthcare fintech that gives patients interest-free, fee-free payment plans for their medical bills while paying providers up front. Founded in 2019 by Itzik Cohen, Tobias Mezger, and Ariel Rosenthal, the company uses AI-driven underwriting to embed personalized financing inside the revenue cycle of hospitals and health systems.
Charta Health is a San Francisco AI startup building a pre-bill chart review platform that reads every patient encounter, catches coding mistakes and missed revenue, and flags compliance risks before claims go out the door. Founded in 2023 by two ex-Rockset engineers who got themselves certified as medical coders, the company raised a $22M Series A in 2025 led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Will Yin is the co-founder and CEO of Mandolin, a San Francisco AI automation company building autonomous agents for specialty drug access. A Greenwich High School valedictorian and Stanford dropout, Yin previously co-founded Jupiter (YC-backed, $9M raised) before pivoting to healthcare. At Mandolin, he and co-founder Rohit Rustagi have raised $97M to automate the back-office workflows — prior auth, benefits verification, billing — that delay cancer and Alzheimer's patients from getting life-saving specialty therapies. Within months of launch, Mandolin deployed across 700+ clinics serving 250,000+ new patients annually.
Samantha Walter is a Healthcare Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she helps portfolio companies grow by building strategic partnerships across the care delivery ecosystem - payors, providers, employers, and retail. A University of Wisconsin-Madison finance graduate originally from Minneapolis, she brings deep operational credibility to the VC world: before joining a16z, she built a Direct Contracting Entity at Carelon (then CareMore/Aspire under Anthem/Elevance) in 2020, drove customer success at Quartet Health, and cut her teeth as a healthcare revenue cycle consultant at Huron Consulting Group in New York City. She lives and works in NYC, bridging Silicon Valley capital with real-world healthcare infrastructure.
Wedge is the operating system for healthcare AI agents - think Palantir, but for hospitals and health plans. Founded in 2025 and backed by Y Combinator (S25), Wedge helps healthcare organizations deploy, govern, and scale AI agents that automate back-office work like medical records retrieval, claims management, payment reconciliation, and medical coding. With forward-deployed engineering embedded inside health institutions, Wedge doesn't just sell software - it builds, monitors, and maintains AI products permanently inside its customers.