Prana: An AI primary care doctor in your pocket

An AI primary care doctor in your pocket

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Company Launches

Prana - An AI Doctor that Monitors You 24/7

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Hey YC! We’re Meer, Vishvam, and Sanjit — the founders of Prana. (pranadoc.com)

TL;DR:
Prana is the "Always-On" AI Doctor. We replace the reactive annual physical with continuous, proactive monitoring. We connect to your medical records and wearables to detect "clinical drift" (like rising blood pressure or glucose) weeks before it becomes an emergency.

The Problem
Primary care today is episodic and reactive: you only see a doctor when you are already sick. Real health issues don’t happen overnight; they happen in the "drift" between visits. Because data is siloed (your Oura ring doesn’t talk to your Epic chart), doctors miss the full context of your health, often leading to late detection of metabolic disease and chronic illness.

The Solution
Prana acts as a 24/7 intelligent layer on top of your health data.

Unified Profile: We aggregate your history (EHRs via Fasten) and real-time biometrics (Wearables via Junction) into a single clinical timeline.
Continuous Monitoring: Instead of waiting for you to complain, our AI acts as a background monitor, analyzing your data for anomalies and drift.
Doctor-in-the-Loop: When risks are detected, the system escalates to our physician network for immediate intervention—turning passive data into active care.

https://youtu.be/T0NoisWj0Ic

The Team We are combining clinical expertise with high-frequency data engineering.

Meer Patel (CEO): JHU BME. Deferred Brown Medical School to build Prana because code scales better than appointments.
Vishvam Rawal (CTO): Ex-Quant (Weiss/Barclays). Leveraging algorithmic trading experience to build high-frequency infrastructure for health signals.
Sanjit Menon (CMO): Graduating MD. Previously co-founded and scaled an AI medical education platform to 400+ customers.

Our Asks

Try the Beta: We are live! If you are interested in longevity, metabolic health, or just want a doctor who actually knows the full story, sign up: (pranadoc.com/login)
Intros: We are looking to pilot with self-insured employers who care about reducing metabolic risk in their workforce. If you know a Benefits VP or a forward-thinking founder, we’d love an intro.

Cheers, Meer, Vishvam, & Sanjit

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