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54th percentile
YC W15 co-founder and CTO of Akido Labs, raising $84M for clinical AI
Credibility
Operator · 90th percentile
- Current co-founder and CTO of Akido Labs, an AI-native healthcare company he has led since 2015.
- Y Combinator Winter 2015 alum via Akido Labs.
- Also co-founded the USC Digital Health Lab (D-Health), making him a multi-company founder.
- Akido Labs was co-founded with at least one other co-founder (Prashant Samant).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Akido Labs raised $84.3M in total funding per SEC Form D filing.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator Winter 2015 alum via Akido Labs.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current co-founder and CTO of Akido Labs, an AI-native healthcare company he has led since 2015.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Also co-founded the USC Digital Health Lab (D-Health), making him a multi-company founder.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Akido Labs was co-founded with at least one other co-founder (Prashant Samant).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Forbes Technology Council member, confirming public recognition as a technology leader.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Identified as a researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 3 and 71 citations across 5 works in healthcare and biomedical engineering.
What you likely need
You're at the stage where the right room matters more than the right deck — your next raise, your next clinical partnership, and your next senior hire are all one warm intro away. Festival events that put you in front of growth-stage healthcare investors, YC healthcare founders, and clinical AI engineering talent will move the needle fastest. Thought-leadership dinners where you can pressure-test your outcomes data narrative and open-source positioning will compound your credibility well beyond any single conversation.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA Series C narrative dinner with Oak HC/FT-backed healthcare founders to pressure-test clinical outcomes framing and physician-capacity metrics ahead of a growth round
- introsA YC healthcare portfolio founder dinner connecting ScopeAI with Commure and Cohere Health founders for warm distribution and partnership conversations brokered through Garry Tan's network
- hiringA YC W15 later-stage alumni roundtable to surface underutilized YC Slack and talent portal pipelines for sourcing senior clinical operations and AI engineering hires
- positioningA clinical AI open-source dinner with ML engineers who have shipped production NLP in health systems, to workshop which narrow ScopeAI pipeline component would drive the most developer adoption if open-sourced
- positioningA healthcare AI thought-leadership dinner with biomedical founders who have published peer-reviewed or pre-print deployment data, to map a fast path from ScopeAI's clinical outcomes to a credible pre-print that accelerates health-system sales cycles
- tacticalA federally qualified health center operator roundtable with founders who have scaled community-health AI models nationally, to stress-test a replication playbook for ScopeAI's LA model across FQHC markets
- wellbeingA small wellbeing dinner for YC founders navigating deferred or in-progress PhDs while running funded companies, to make a clear-eyed call on completing or formally pausing the USC biomedical engineering program