make sense of your health
Our Mission
We want every patient to always be in the know and never feel alone.
We build AI technology that allows everyone to make sense of their health at all steps along their healthcare journey.
Building for you
Ilya Valmianski, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder
5+ yrs building AI in healthcare
At Curai: built LLM-powered patient intake.
At Kaiser Permanente: built patient intake and CDS tool now used by thousands of doctors and millions of patients
UC San Diego Physics
William Shen
CPO & Co-Founder
MD Candidate, Harvard Medical School
While at Harvard College:
Product development, Evera Health
Research & Clinic, Mass General Hospital
Strategy & Innovation, NHS England
Harvard Molecular Biology, Health Policy
Raymond Li
Founding ML Engineer
LLM reseacher
PhD Student, University of British Columbia
While at the NLP group of UBC: research on
interpretability and applications of LLMs,
knowledge injection, and info visualization
University of Toronto CS & Math
Yuqiao Chen, PhD
Founding ML Engineer
Research Scientist
Previously worked as an applied research scientist at Meta where he combined GNN and Transformer-based models for user behavior prediction
University of Texas at Dallas, CS
Justin Kazwell
Head of Growth
10+ yrs scaling SaaS teams
Built foundational marketing teams at Copy.ai, Mural.co, and Fountain.com.
Helped in multiple +$100 million Series B raises.
Whitman Schorn
Senior Engineer
10+ years startup experience
At Transfix: Shipment Success Team Manager
At Quartet Health: Primary Care Platform Team Lead
Oberlin College CS
Sean Young
Front End Engineer
3+ Years of Front End Development
Previous Career: Public School Science Teacher
At Weightlifting.AI: Full Stack Development
At CoachLogic: Front End Dev and Design
UC Davis B.S. Eng, CSU East Bay M.S. Ed Tech
Prerana Dixit, DNB
Clinical Associate
Cardiac Anesthesiologist
6+ years of critical care and emergency trauma management experience
COVID ICU doctor during peak pandemic waves in Mumbai, India
MBBS DA DNB Anaesthesiology
Priyanka Pungavkar, MS
Clinical Associate
General Surgeon
5+ years of clinical experience
PG program in healthcare management, LIBA
MBBS, MS
Emily Xing
Journalism Intern
Sophomore at Harvard College
Connecting science & society
Health Equity Research @ Johns Hopkins
Futures @ Harvard Medical School, NSF, & Tsinghua University
Russell Phillips, MD
Clinical Advisor
Director of Harvard Center for Primary Care
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief of General Medicine, Beth Israel 2002-12
Advisor to Grow Therapy and Bicycle Health
MIT Life Sciences, Stanford Medicine
In the know and not alone
MDandMe wants every person to be able to make sense of their health, and feel like they have a doctor best friend whom they can turn to for guidance, comfort, and support. Since our launch in January 2024, we have helped over 40,000 people, primarily in rural and underserved communities.
Introducing MDandMe
Patients are ready for AI but stop thinking about it as competition to doctors. Busting 3 common myths about the world's first conversational AI symptom checker. Myth 1: "Patients will drop off right away" Myth 2: "Patients won't know how to describe their symptoms and AI won't understand" Myth 3: "Patients just want to talk to a real doctor"
Can AI help close the medical care gap?
The internet revolutionized the accessibility of nearly every industry and empowered the consumer with convenience, knowledge, and choice. Why not healthcare? We believe generative AI is the missing foundational technology that will work hand in hand with human clinicians to serve all in need.
Pre-Seed Funding
Ilya Valmianski pioneered Kaiser Permanente Southern California's AI-based patient intake system used by millions of patients and later built the world's first LLM-based patient intake chatbot (prior to the release of ChatGPT). In 2023, he met his co-founder William, who was building a similar product at Harvard Medical School. Together, they raised $2M in pre-seed funding from The Steele Foundation for Hope.
With support from:
