Prana
ActiveAn AI primary care doctor in your pocket
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About
Prana replaces the reactive, 15-minute annual physical with continuous, proactive care. We connect to your medical records and wearables to watch for "clinical drift," catching subtle declines in health that human doctors miss between visits. Most AI health apps are just chatbots. Prana is a full-stack medical provider. Our AI acts as a always-on physician that watches your data, explains your labs, and manages your prescriptions. Safety & Scale: We automate 90% of the "grunt work" (history taking, logistics, triage) so our human doctors can focus purely on high-leverage decisions. This allows us to offer 24/7 physician care for a fraction of the cost of traditional care. The Team: - Meer Patel (CEO): JHU BME. Deferred Brown Medical School to build Prana because code scales better than appointments. - Vishvam Rawal (CTO): Ex-Quant. Building high-frequency data infrastructure for health signals. - Sanjit Menon (CHO): Graduating MD Candidate. Deep clinical expertise to ensure our models practice good medicine. Traction: Live in beta with early users.
Founders · 3
Co-founder & CEO of Prana (YC W26). I hold a B.S. and M.S.E. in BME from Johns Hopkins. I deferred Brown Medical School to build Prana, realizing software scales better than appointments. Previously, I was an AI Engineer at Onix, scaling GenAI solutions to hundreds of thousands of users for Fortune 500 clients. I co-developed ICPredict, a deep learning model for non-invasive brain pressure monitoring, and engineered rapid saliva diagnostics that secured strategic R&D backing from Danaher.
Co-founder and CHO of Prana (YC W26). MD with expertise in clinical workflows. Previously co-founded an AI medical education platform and scaled it to 400+ paying customers. Authored multiple clinical research publications in high-impact academic journals.
Co-founder & CTO of Prana (YC W26); UC Berkeley Applied Math. Prior to Prana, I worked in quantitative research and equities algorithmic development, building high-reliability production systems. I now apply that engineering discipline to healthcare, with experience deploying applied AI in medical settings, having previously engineered voice agents for medical billing and custom chatbots for physical therapy clinics.
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