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- Brandon Ballinger@bballingerFounder · Empirical HealthS23Healthcare · New York
- Raquel Rodriguez MartinezFounder · Empirical HealthS23Healthcare · New York
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Brandon BallingerEmpirical HealthFounderSummer 2023HealthcareNew York, United States4https://x.com/bballingerRaquel Rodriguez MartinezEmpirical HealthFounderSummer 2023HealthcareNew York, United States4—
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Brandon Ballinger
Founder·Empirical Health
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder· not in title
Team size4
BatchSummer 2023
LocationNew York, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
AI in medicine. Co-founder at * Empirical Health (YC S23) - full stack preventive heart health scaled with AI * Cardiogram (acquired) - deep learning for heart disease * Sift - top 50 YC company, machine learning for fraud detection. Also: * HealthCare.gov rescue team * Google tech lead on machine learning for speech recognition * Head of Risk Engineering at Brex
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineEngineerKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
Empirical Health
Don't die of heart disease. Empirical is the first AI-native heart…
Co-foundersRaquel Rodriguez Martinez
