Locata

AI Referral Automation for Primary Care Clinics

Y CombinatorSummer 2025ActiveHealthcareHealthcare IT

What they do

Problem

Primary care clinics struggle with understaffed back offices and inefficient referral workflows, leading to many specialist referrals not being completed and patients missing needed care.

Solution

Locata provides an AI referral management platform that uses AI agents to automate end-to-end referral tasks such as prior authorizations, status updates, and patient follow-ups.

Who it's for

Primary care clinics and their administrative/back-office staff who manage specialist referrals.

Founders

Alejandro Salinas

Founder

Alejandro is the Co-Founder of Locata. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University where he conducted AI research at Stanford Medicine. A former pre-med, Alejandro spent multiple summers shadowing doctors domestically and internationally. He has deep experience building AI products. As a Senior Software Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, he led development of several AI features for wearable products. He also authored an AI patent.

Joshua Chang

Founder

Joshua is the Co-Founder of Locata. He graduated Stanford with a BS & MS in Computer Science, specializing in AI. Previously he was a software engineer at Google, developing AI products that served over 1 billion users.