Companies
Pando is an AI-driven synthetic biology company revolutionizing enzyme engineering for the pharmaceutical industry. Our ultra-high-throughput screening platform screens 1000-fold more enzymes 75% faster and 80% cheaper than traditional methods. This empowers our generative AI to efficiently optimize enzymes across multiple properties, delivering high-performing, tailored enzymes that reduce costs and enhance efficiency.
Papa is a one-stop-shop for flexible family care, providing companionship and a helping hand wherever it’s needed. With wide-ranging industry, technology, and transformation experience, we share a vision for a world where no one has to go it alone. And a deep well of gratitude for the Papa People who move this vision forward. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Miami, Papa is backed by Canaan, Tiger Global Management, Comcast Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, TCG, Initialized Capital, and Seven Seven Six, among other revered institutional and individual investors. Papa is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly support the ParityPledge® for gender and/or racial parity at the highest levels of business.
Parachute helps hospitals adopt AI safely and at scale. We vet AI tools that fill clinical gaps, run state-of-the-art evaluations, monitor every model for drift and compliance, and lock every decision in an immutable audit trail.
Parallel Bio created a human 'immune system in a dish' to discover drugs and immunotherapies more likely to work in patients. Our platform has all of the same elements as a human immune system, meaning you can test drugs and vaccines as if you were testing them in actual patients from the start. The biggest reason why 95% of new drugs fail is that they were tested in mice - but with our human platform, pharma companies will know which drugs will successfully treat patients, speeding up the process and reducing the cost. To date our platform has successfully been used to test 12 drugs, and vaccines against 8 different diseases. The company is founded by Robert DiFazio, a former Stanford R&D director with a PhD in immunology, and Juliana Hilliard, a former System1 Biosciences R&D lead with an MSc in bioengineering, both of whom have led drug discovery programs for years.
Paratus Health is the AI operations layer for outpatient clinics. We build autonomous agents that don’t just assist staff - they replace them, fully handling front desk calls, patient intake, insurance verification, documentation, and billing prep. Everything is deeply integrated into EHRs like Epic and Athena, eliminating the need for fragmented tools and manual work. No toggling between systems. No busywork. Just one intelligent system running your clinical operations - faster, smarter, and more profitably than ever before.
Penciled (W24) is an AI front office assistant for physical therapy. Penciled's AI assistant schedules out plans of care, sends reminders and processes last-minute cancellations, and fills openings with an automated waitlist. Penciled books thousands of appointments for physical therapists each month and integrates directly into EHRs like WebPT.
At Penta Medical we are dedicated to providing an innovative solution to injury management. We work with the top athletic teams and doctors to help them reduce injury rates and improve healing times. While working with our team you will have access to up to date information on all of your athletes, preventative statistics benchmarked across the field, and customized treatments.
Perception Biosystems is democratizing gene therapy through lab automation. Our mission is to accelerate the clinical translation of gene therapy by reinventing its manufacturing and development processes. We're building a robotic lab in the SF Bay Area to translate the large facilities, labor, and regulatory requirements of current gene therapy factories into automated flexible manufacturing systems and code. This enables us to produce gene therapies for use in human clinical trials an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than the current solution – opening up thousands of rare disease targets otherwise thought too rare to pursue.
Stealth-mode, rapidly scaling, venture-backed startup at the vanguard of automated robotic surgery revolution -- just closed our Series A round. We are improving access to dental care in underserved populations by combining novel imaging technology with AI and surgical robotics to automate surgery in the $452B dental industry. We are bringing a new imaging modality to dentistry which can see inside teeth and below the gingiva all without the need for x-rays. AI is used to diagnose decay and plan treatment. Automated robotics reduces the time for surgery down to one minute, reducing patient discomfort and saving time and reducing cost for the dentist. YC 2020, Winner of the Forsyth DenTech 2021 CareCaptial award
Perlara 1.0 (Feb 2014 - Feb 2019) launched early R&D joint ventures called PerlQuests with highly motivated rare disease families, companies or impact investors. We screened gene-edited patient avatars for repurposable drugs in order to build a predictive R&D engine called ArkBase. We planned to monetize programs based on ArkBase predictions by selectively spinning out asset-centric clinical development NewCos. Perlara 1.5 (March 2019 - April 2020) was the transition to a one-person virtual clinical development company and when the epalrestat and aripiprazole repurposing trials were launched at Mayo Clinic for the treatment of PMM2-CDG and NGLY1-CDDG, respectively. Perlara 2.0 (May 2020 --> The first decentralized and distributed biotech
Persephone Biome develops live biotherapeutic products to modulate the metabolism of gut microbes, for applications in disease prevention and cure. We take a unique engineering approach using systems and synthetic biology to understand the complexities of the microbiome.
Pharmie is an AI assistant for pharmacies. It can pick up calls, process prescriptions, handle insurance follow-ups, and even help upsell specific drugs and services. Pharmacies can get 50+ phone calls a day, and missing phone calls means lost revenue from filling prescriptions. Pharmacy workflows are complex and custom to each pharmacy's needs. Generic tools are not enough, which is why AI agents can handle tasks end-to-end that previously could not be automated. We are constantly evolving Pharmie to become a suite of agents that supercharge your pharmacy. In the future, pharmacies will evolve into patient care centers, bridging the gaps in access caused by today’s overburdened healthcare system. Successful pharmacies will use AI to optimize their operations, resulting in a higher quality patient experience traditional pharmacies cannot match.
Pharos automates hospital quality reporting, saving millions in labour costs and helping to prevent avoidable patient harm. Today, clinicians spend thousands of hours manually pulling complex facts out of medical records for mandatory reporting and quality improvement. Our AI pulls those facts out of unstructured medical records automatically. We automate reporting and show staff where avoidable patient harm is happening.
Phases uses AI to automate clinical trial operations, starting with patient recruitment. Our agent scans medical records and conducts human-like voice interviews to assess patient eligibility for clinical trials. Our vision is to run the entire clinical trial back-office with agents, getting drugs to market at a fraction of the time and cost it takes today.
PhysioHealth is an enterprise health and wellness management platform that rewards your employees for living healthy and decreases your healthcare costs. Their customized platform delivers 5x engagement vs. other corporate wellness programs.
Healthcare needs good data. At PicnicHealth, we are building deep real-world datasets fueling cutting-edge research while giving patients control of their own medical record data. These complete, clinically-rich datasets produce unique insights — across dozens of diseases — to ultimately get the right treatments into patients’ hands faster. We work directly with patients and leverage state of the art machine learning to transform messy medical records into structured, research-ready datasets. To date we’ve helped tens of thousands of patients securely access their records and proactively contribute to advancing research in diseases that impacts their lives.
Pillar is designed to solve healthcare’s longitudinal engagement problem through a combination of our SOC 2-certified, HIPAA-compliant platform and health coach workforce. Our white-label infrastructure enables companies to guide patients from outreach and activation through to flexible microsites and automated digital pathways including content, services, vendors and forms. Together with our in-house network of 1,200+ health coaches, Pillar partners drive positive outcomes through scalable digital care programs focused on health education and care navigation to chronic condition management.