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Opalite Health

Helping Healthcare Providers Speak Any Language

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveHealthcare

What they do

Problem

Healthcare providers struggle to communicate quickly and accurately with non-English speaking patients, causing delays and reliance on costly interpreters.

Solution

Opalite provides an always-available, workflow-integrated voice AI medical interpreter for real-time clinical communication.

Who it's for

Healthcare providers and enterprise hospitals/clinics that need medical interpretation during patient care.

Founders

Cathleen Kuo
Founder

CEO of Opalite Health. Physician and AI healthcare researcher with 200+ publications. Passionate about building technology that actually moves the needle in healthcare - safer care, fewer barriers, better outcomes for everyone.

Alex Mehregan
Founder

CTO Opalite Health. Former engineer at Apple (Siri, System Experience). Berkeley EECS grad. Wrote software that touched many millions of users.

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