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Yusuf Sherwani
Yusuf Sherwani is a London-born, New York-based medical doctor turned founder who runs Pelago (formerly Quit Genius), the digital clinic he co-founded in 2017 with two medical school classmates, Maroof Ahmed and Sarim Siddiqui. A Y Combinator alumnus and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he has raised more than $150 million from investors including Atomico, Kinnevik and Octopus Ventures to scale technology-driven, evidence-based care. Trained at Imperial College London with an MD and a BSc in management, he co-authored roughly a dozen peer-reviewed studies before pivoting fully into building. He is also an active angel investor backing early-stage founders and writes about healthcare, technology and finance on his personal blog.
RecoveryLink
RecoveryLink is a Philadelphia-based digital recovery technology company that gives people in recovery - and the organizations that serve them - a platform for peer-based support at the touch of a button. It combines an electronic recovery record, asynchronous training, one-on-one telerecovery peer sessions, and live video group support into a single HIPAA-compliant suite. Founded by recovery scientist Robert Ashford alongside Chris Hart and Brent Canode, the company treats recovery as an individualized, data-informed process supported by both technology and human connection.