Prana

An AI primary care doctor in your pocket

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveHealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness

What they do

Problem

Traditional primary care is reactive and infrequent, causing subtle health declines to go unnoticed between short doctor visits.

Solution

Prana provides an always-on AI-driven primary care provider that connects to medical records and wearables to monitor clinical drift, explain labs, and manage prescriptions with human doctors overseeing high-leverage decisions.

Who it's for

Consumers/patients seeking continuous primary care support and access to physician-managed care.

Founders

Meer Patel

Founder

Co-founder & CEO of Prana (YC W26). I hold a B.S. and M.S.E. in BME from Johns Hopkins. I deferred Brown Medical School to build Prana, realizing software scales better than appointments. Previously, I was an AI Engineer at Onix, scaling GenAI solutions to hundreds of thousands of users for Fortune 500 clients. I co-developed ICPredict, a deep learning model for non-invasive brain pressure monitoring, and engineered rapid saliva diagnostics that secured strategic R&D backing from Danaher.

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Sanjit Menon

Founder

Co-founder and CHO of Prana (YC W26). MD with expertise in clinical workflows. Previously co-founded an AI medical education platform and scaled it to 400+ paying customers. Authored multiple clinical research publications in high-impact academic journals.

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Vishvam Rawal

Founder

Co-founder & CTO of Prana (YC W26); UC Berkeley Applied Math. Prior to Prana, I worked in quantitative research and equities algorithmic development, building high-reliability production systems. I now apply that engineering discipline to healthcare, with experience deploying applied AI in medical settings, having previously engineered voice agents for medical billing and custom chatbots for physical therapy clinics.