Thank you to our sponsors that made Knowledgefest possible - very relevant to people building in healthcare! @cloudcruise_app is an AI platform that automates healthcare workflows inside payer portals and EHRs. It turns manual browser and desktop tasks like eligibility checks, prior auths, medical record downloads, and payer enrollment into repeatable, auditable outcomes. Sakura Health is the infrastructure layer for governed AI agents in healthcare, giving teams the primitives to build, evaluate, and deploy agents that work inside EHRs, practice management systems, payer portals, and phone/fax channels. Every agent comes with policy guardrails, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop controls, and specialty practices, digital health companies, and RCM teams already run them across front office, back office, and revenue cycle workflows. @candid_health automates revenue cycle management, ingesting data from any EMR to submit clean claims, reduce manual billing work, and collect more of the revenue providers have earned. Leap is the healthcare company making specialty medicine more affordable and easier to access. We're building modern drug distribution infrastructure for specialty therapy. We bill each drug at its true acquisition cost with no markup, and we pair every patient with a dedicated Care Guide who coordinates treatment, insurance approvals, scheduling, and ongoing support. @SierraPlatform is the leading partner for healthcare agents, already reaching over 50% of U.S. families. Our customers include leading health plans, providers, pharma and medical device companies, digital health companies, and other healthcare platforms. Our agents go beyond answering questions, helping patients understand their coverage and get their medications to proactively closing care gaps and accelerating revenue cycle management. @GetHealthie is the world's leading API-first, ONC-Certified EHR for healthcare delivery outside of the hospital. We provide the powerful infrastructure every scaling organization needs: EHR, scheduling, patient engagement, billing, and more, all accessible via modern APIs and a white-labeled UI. @Vapi_AI is the leading Voice AI platform that gives developers and enterprises control over building, deploying, orchestrating, and managing voice agents at scale. This makes AI voice agents easy to build, safe to operate, and flexible to evolve. @myaccessone , a @phreesia company, is a patient financing platform that enables healthcare providers to offer patients low-interest monthly payment plans, with no credit check, no fees and no impact to their credit score. As a licensed lender, AccessOne accepts 100% of patients and integrates directly with leading EHRs. Providers receive cash acceleration from Day 1, reducing AR days to zero while driving 85% net yield on payment plans. @champ_hq is an AI agents platform for healthcare operations teams. We build AI agents that automate your manual intake, credentialing, eligibility and claims follow up processes.

First part in the series - healthcare companies I think someone should build 1. DME recycling marketplace: A third-party marketplace that re-certifies used durable medical equipment (CPAPs, power wheelchairs, unopened diabetes supplies) so it can be resold legit instead of tossed 2. World's Fair for healthcare: A new World's Fair where people can actually see and touch cutting-edge healthcare tech, like a live Neuralink demo or a Wandercraft exoskeleton. The point is to make people amazed by healthcare again, the way the old fairs did for consumer tech. 3. Instinct for healthcare workers: A personal AI agent built for healthcare employees, with its own login on the org's network, a BAA-covered cloud model, and role-based permissions instead of impersonating you with cached passwords. People are going to use these tools at work no matter what, so someone should build the compliant version.

3 companies collectively worth $6 billion...excited to be doing a happy hour at HLTH with @doximity and @WHOOP If you're going to be there - come join us Tuesday evening, it's gonna be fun

for the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing out healthcare company ideas I think should exist A few I'll write out and send in tomorrow's newsletter - Instinct for healthcare employees - The World's Fair for healthcare - Refurbished DME marketplace You can sign up to get it - and before you ask why I don't start these companies myself...it's because I lack CONVICTION and Out-Of-Pocket is a real business I swear

Grindr CEO had some interesting thoughts on how the dating app and health clinic could be integrated (both of these would be only if users consented) 1) With a new PrEP pill that's fast acting (within an hour), they can remind people before meeting up with someone to take it 2) They're considering adding a verified HIV status or "taking PrEP" status on profiles (with user consent). Today it's mostly self-attestation.

heading back to NY from SF - quick observations 1) Basically all the AI companies are starting to converge on the same spaces within their category. Vibe is way more cutthroat than collaborative now. 2) Was trying to explain to people that most of my friends in NY don't use LLMs at all, except maybe chatGPT to help write emails. Many didn't believe me. The tech vibe has never been more different between the two ciites. 3) Everyone seems much more hyper aware about money everyone else is making now. It does remind me of finance in New York where personal net worth is now very explicitly a driving force in people's decisions (vs. before where it was more veiled). 4) It is insane how expensive everything - talking to some people about housing market/childcare there made me gasp outloud. 1.5x-2x of even NY costs for something similar/ 5) Agent swarm stuff seems to have increased doomerism amongst people who previously were pretty optimistic about AI in the last year 6) Like everyone seems to want to start a data labeling company to make a quick bag lol 7) very anecdotal based on a small number of convos, but I was surprised that some people are actively pushing out life milestones they wanted to do earlier (e.g. find a partner, have a kid, etc) because they think the AI window is short right now and they want to make sure they prioritize it (personally I don't think those things are mutually exclusive but hard to convince people of that)

Since we announced our hackathon (with cash grants/prizes) - a question we keep getting asked is “Do you know someone looking for a teammate?” So reply if you’re someone who wants to join, but you’re looking for a teammate to apply with. That way others can see you and reach out if it might be a good fit. has anyone done cofounder dating in the bottom of a X post?