Prana

An AI primary care doctor in your pocket

Winter 2026ActiveHealthcareConsumer Health and WellnessHealth TechSan Francisco, CA, USA

Company

Prana replaces the reactive, 15-minute annual physical with continuous, proactive care. We connect to your medical records and wearables to watch for "clinical drift," catching subtle declines in health that human doctors miss between visits. Most AI health apps are just chatbots. Prana is a full-stack medical provider. Our AI acts as a always-on physician that watches your data, explains your labs, and manages your prescriptions. Safety & Scale: We automate 90% of the "grunt work" (history taking, logistics, triage) so our human doctors can focus purely on high-leverage decisions. This allows us to offer 24/7 physician care for a fraction of the cost of traditional care. The Team: - Meer Patel (CEO): JHU BME. Deferred Brown Medical School to build Prana because code scales better than appointments. - Vishvam Rawal (CTO): Ex-Quant. Building high-frequency data infrastructure for health signals. - Sanjit Menon (CHO): Graduating MD Candidate. Deep clinical expertise to ensure our models practice good medicine. Traction: Live in beta with early users.

Verdict

High Signal

Market Opportunity

US primary care and consumer health is a $300B+ market with massive underservice — 15-minute annual physicals, physician shortages, and insurance friction create real demand. The ICP (underserved consumers who want proactive, affordable primary care) is clear. Hybrid AI+telehealth model with subscription revenue ($30/mo) plus per-visit fees is a credible monetization path at scale.

Medium Signal

Founder Signal

Meer Patel (CEO) has the strongest technical profile: JHU BME B.S./M.S.E., 2.5 years as AI Engineer at Onix deploying GenAI to Fortune 500 clients, plus deep biomedical research (NIH, Hopkins). Sanjit Menon (CHO) is a graduating MD (Albany Medical College, RPI BS/MD program) who previously co-founded an AI medical education platform with 400+ paying customers — real entrepreneurial signal. Vishvam Rawal (CTO) is a current UC Berkeley Applied Math undergrad (graduating 2026) with only internships at Weiss Asset Management and Barclays — very junior for a CTO role. Overall team is promising but leans young with limited production-scale engineering leadership.

Low Signal

Competition

This space is crowded: Amazon Clinic, Hims/Hers, Teladoc/BetterHelp, Forward Health, Babylon Health, and numerous AI symptom-checker apps (Ada, K Health, Buoy) all compete directly. OpenAI and Google are actively building health AI. The 'clinical drift monitoring' angle is differentiating but unproven, and the disclaimer on their own website ('not a licensed medical provider') undercuts the 'full-stack medical provider' positioning.

Medium Signal

Product

Live product with a real pricing page ($0 free tier, $30/mo, $229/yr), HIPAA compliance claims, EHR integration with 50,000+ healthcare organizations, and wearable connectivity. Doctor visits at $39 ($20 with Prana+) suggest actual telehealth infrastructure. However, traction is described only as 'live in beta with early users' — no revenue figures, user counts, or named customers provided.

OverallB Tier

Prana has a genuinely interesting wedge — proactive health monitoring via wearables/EHR integration plus affordable telehealth — and the team has real domain credibility (Meer's AI engineering background, Sanjit's MD + prior startup with paying customers). The pricing structure and live product show execution intent. However, the CTO is a current undergrad with only internship experience, traction is vague ('beta'), the competitive landscape is brutal with well-funded incumbents, and their own legal disclaimer contradicts their marketing positioning as a 'full-stack medical provider.' This needs to show user growth and retention data fast to justify the positioning.

Active Founders

Sanjit Menon

Founder

Co-founder and CHO of Prana (YC W26). Graduating 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.

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.

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.

Prana

TierB Tier

BatchWinter 2026

Team Size4

StatusActive

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA