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Doug Wheeler Learned Marketing Where the Cash Runs Out
After decades moving between public companies and fragile startups, XiFin's chief marketing officer has reduced growth to a few unsentimental rules: protect cash, listen more than you talk, and go before perfect becomes an alibi.
Tracey Schroeder Made One Name Carry the Weight of Seven
The TruBridge CMO inherited a thicket of familiar brands. Her answer was not a louder logo, but a patient campaign to make one name mean more.
Chris Farrell Knows the Unsexy Work Is Where Markets Move
A career built across banking, billing and software taught Chris Farrell to look past the shiny pitch. At Raintree Systems, he is turning the stubborn machinery of therapy practice into a story people can actually use.
Marisa Johnson Makes Clinical AI Sound Human
At SmarterDx, a Minneapolis marketer turns dense clinical technology into plain language - with sharp copy, self-aware humor, and the discipline to put the people doing the work first.
Ben Buchanan Learned to Close Games. Now He Opens Markets.
Before Ben Buchanan was translating medical-billing complexity for a market, he was a 6-foot-3 right-hander trusted with the ninth inning. His path from UNC Asheville’s bullpen to ImagineSoftware’s executive team is a study in pressure, preparation and the quiet value of finishing the job.
Levon Brutyan Is Teaching the Medical Bill to Behave
A lawyer, operator and would-be rock singer walked into the least glamorous corner of American finance. A decade later, his company is trying to replace billing friction with clarity, timing and a little software empathy.
Johnny Chen Failed His Way Into Code - Then Built AI for Dentistry’s Least Loved Work
Two dropped computer-science classes, three bootcamp interviews and more than 140 job interviews taught Johnny Chen a useful operating system: keep moving, build the thing, and aim automation at work people already dread.
Ashish Mandavia Is Fixing the Six-Second Moment Before Care Begins
A physician left the ward, learned the machinery of growth, and found his company in healthcare's overlooked doorway. Now Sohar Health is turning insurance verification from a waiting game into infrastructure.
Missy Miller Makes the Back Office Visible
The Waystar CMO built a career by turning complicated payment systems into clear commercial stories - and by treating marketing as a bridge between product, people and growth.
Akash Magoon
He learned how insurers deny claims from the inside. Then he built the machine that fights back for the doctors.
Zack Kanter
Zack Kanter is the founder and CEO of Stedi, an API-first, cloud-native healthcare clearinghouse that routes eligibility checks, claims, and electronic payments between providers and insurers. He started his first company at 16, building a bootstrapped auto-parts wholesaler (Proforged) that he ran for roughly 13 years before selling it to Huron Capital. He then spent years wrestling with electronic data interchange (EDI), the arcane plumbing of business-to-business transactions, rewriting Stedi's codebase about eight times before finding extraordinary traction in healthcare. Along the way he became widely read for essays like 'Why Amazon is eating the world.' In March 2026 Stedi raised a $50M Series C led by Addition, bringing total funding to about $142M.
Chetan Reddy
Chetan Reddy is the co-founder and CEO of Confido Health, a New York based startup building AI voice and messaging agents that answer patient calls around the clock and complete routine front-office work like scheduling, refills, eligibility checks and reminders. He started the company after watching the administrative load of the US healthcare system firsthand when his wife had spine surgery, and has grown Confido to more than 1,000 clinical sites and millions of patient interactions. An engineer by training from BITS Pilani, he previously built AI systems for drone mapping and a fitness app before turning to healthcare operations.
Dushyant Mishra
Dushyant Mishra is the founder and CEO of RapidClaims, a New York-based company building an AI-first platform for healthcare revenue cycle management. After nearly five years in commercial operations at Abbott and two years as an early-stage investor at Together Fund, he started RapidClaims in 2023 with co-founders Abhinay Vyas and Jot Sarup Singh to attack the roughly $350 billion administrative burden in US healthcare. The company automates medical coding, clinical documentation, claim scrubbing and denial recovery across 25+ specialties, has raised about $11 million including an $8 million Series A led by Accel, and grew roughly sixfold in its first year.
Eliana Berger
Eliana Berger is the co-founder and CEO of Joyful Health, a New York startup building AI-powered financial infrastructure for healthcare providers. The company focuses on the hardest part of the revenue cycle - chasing down denied and unpaid insurance claims - and works on performance-based pricing, getting paid only when it recovers money for clients. In April 2026, Joyful Health raised a $17M Series A led by CRV, bringing total funding to $22M. Berger's path to the problem was personal: she grew up watching her mother and grandmother run a therapy practice and struggle to understand what had been paid and what was still owed.
Roshan Patel
Roshan Patel is the co-founder and CEO of Arrow, a New York-based healthcare payments company (formerly Walnut) that uses AI to detect claim errors, accelerate reimbursement, and give revenue cycle teams real-time visibility into what payers are doing. He built the original company as a buy-now-pay-later product for medical bills after watching a family member's bills pile up, raised a $110 million Series A led by Gradient Ventures in 2022, then pivoted the business toward provider-side claims infrastructure and rebranded to Arrow in 2024.
Athena Doshi
Athena Doshi is the founder and CEO of Exactrx, a Nashville-based healthtech company building AI-native infrastructure that helps ambulatory surgery centers stop costly day-of cancellations and recover lost revenue. A two-time digital health founder who once turned down a medical school acceptance, she pairs a physiology and neuroscience background from UC San Diego with hands-on product work at Omada Health and Heartbeat Health. Her platform pairs autonomous, embedded checklists with a payer-rules engine running more than 80,000 rules, and she was named to Inc.'s 2025 Female Founders 500 list.
Diego Saavedra-Kloss
Diego Saavedra-Kloss is the founder and CEO of Sandy Health, a San Francisco startup building a financial intelligence platform for healthcare providers. An MIT-trained aerospace engineer who spent years building infrastructure at LeapYear Technologies and Rad AI, Diego now points AI at the least glamorous problem in medicine: the paperwork that decides whether a clinic gets paid. Sandy Health calculates expected reimbursement before a visit, tracks the actual payment after, and shrinks the gap in between. The company raised a $1.5M pre-seed round in November 2025.
Nick Shelly
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.
Steven Greene
Steven Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Practice, a New York voice-AI startup that automates the endless phone calls medical billing teams make to insurance companies. A reformed Goldman Sachs healthcare M&A banker turned operator, he built and rebranded the company from its original incarnation, Nibble Health, after watching healthcare workers burn roughly 4.5 hours a day on hold. Backed by $8.5M from Wing, Tiger Global, A* Capital and Expa, Greene is trying to give revenue cycle teams their time, and their money, back.
Eric Steege
Eric Steege is the CEO and cofounder of Olli Health, a Madison, Wisconsin healthtech startup using AI to handle home-health agency coding, OASIS review, and clinical documentation. After more than four years as a product lead on Amazon Alexa's generative AI and subscriptions team - where he launched Alexa's first direct-to-consumer subscription for older adults and caregivers - he co-founded Olli in 2023 to cut the cost and turnaround time of the paperwork that slows down home health reimbursement. By late 2025 the company served over 100 home health agencies and raised a $10M Series A led by Industry Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $13M.
Sam Schwager
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.
Itzik Cohen
Itzik Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of PayZen, a San Francisco-based healthcare fintech that has raised $452M to eliminate financial barriers to medical care. A former professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israeli Air Force veteran, and three-time founding CEO, Cohen channeled two decades of fintech expertise from WebEx, Prosper Marketplace, and Beyond Finance into building an AI-powered platform that gives patients interest-free payment plans while boosting hospital collection rates by 30-35%. PayZen's $232M Series B in 2024, led by NEA, validated his conviction that the fastest-growing category of American consumer debt - medical bills - is also the most solvable.
Gauri Naik
Dr. Gauri Naik is a Ph.D. biotechnologist, serial entrepreneur, and Co-Founder & CEO of OptraHEALTH, a Silicon Valley AI health-tech company building conversational AI and revenue cycle automation tools for genetics, genomics, and clinical workflows. With 11 U.S. patents, a career spanning digital pathology (BioImagene, acquired by Roche), and products deployed at leading health systems across the US, Europe, and Asia, she sits at the intersection of molecular biology, machine learning, and enterprise health IT.
Justin Liu
Justin Liu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Charta Health, a San Francisco-based AI healthcare operations company that automates medical chart review and billing/coding workflows. Having previously led growth at Rockset (acquired by OpenAI in 2024), Liu pivoted to healthcare, earning a Certified Professional Coder credential alongside his co-founder before raising over $30M to back their mission of making healthcare more affordable through AI. Charta Health's platform enables hospitals and health systems to review 100% of charts pre-billing, delivering an average 11% revenue uplift per chart.
Stoyan Kenderov
Stoyan Kenderov is the Founder and CEO of Wisdom, an AI-powered dental revenue cycle management platform based in New York that has raised $28M in funding. With a 30-year career spanning European internet pioneers, Intuit, LendingClub, and Plastiq, he brings deep fintech product expertise to a $170B dental industry where over $20B in earned revenue goes uncollected annually. A multilingual Bulgarian-born technologist educated at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kenderov built Wisdom around the thesis that vertical AI - trained on proprietary, domain-specific data - can outperform generalist AI in specialized industries.
Nick Perry
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.