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Empirical Health

Don't die of heart disease. Empirical is the first AI-native heart…

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveHealthcareConsumer Health and WellnessGenerative AIMachine LearningConsumer Health ServicesHealthcare

What they do

Problem

People are at high risk of preventable heart disease due to insufficient personalized risk assessment and guidance to reduce cardiovascular risk.

Solution

An AI-native preventative cardiology program that uses advanced lab testing (100+ biomarkers) to model lifetime heart disease risk and deliver a medically supervised plan to reduce it.

Who it's for

Health-conscious adults and patients in the US seeking medically supervised prevention and management of cardiovascular risk.

Founders

Brandon Ballinger
Founder

AI in medicine. Co-founder at * Empirical Health (YC S23) - full stack preventive heart health scaled with AI * Cardiogram (acquired) - deep learning for heart disease * Sift - top 50 YC company, machine learning for fraud detection. Also: * HealthCare.gov rescue team * Google tech lead on machine learning for speech recognition * Head of Risk Engineering at Brex

Raquel Rodriguez Martinez
Founder

Physician | Health Technology | Co-founder at Empirical Health | Previously Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF & Family Medicine at Kaiser

Open roles 1

Design Engineer
New York, NY, US · Full-time · $140K - $260K · 1.00% - 3.00%
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