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About Pelica Health

We build the operating system for value-based care.

Pelica Health turns the fragmented data behind a risk-bearing contract into work that actually gets done. One canonical record per member, and an AI copilot next to every team that owns the outcome: risk adjustment, Quality and Stars, pharmacy and Part D, provider network, and care management.

Why Pelica exists

A value-based care team of eight can be accountable for a hundred thousand members. The data they need is scattered across 8 to 15 vendor portals, SFTP drops, and spreadsheets. The analytics layer is mature: most teams already know which gaps are open, which suspects are unconfirmed, and which members are slipping on adherence. The bottleneck is not knowing. It is doing, at volume, before the submission window closes.

Pelica was built to close that gap. Instead of one more dashboard, we put an AI workforce next to the operators: it makes the outreach call, books the visit, drafts the point-of-care documentation prompt, reads the MAO-004 rejections, and operates payer portals the way a staff member would. Every action carries its evidence, its provenance, and an audit trail, because in this market an undocumented action is a liability.

The people building it

Pelica is built by engineers and clinicians who shipped AI at scale, guided by the operators who run risk-bearing contracts every day.

Catherine Zhao, Co-Founder and CEO of Pelica Health
Catherine Zhao
Co-Founder & CEO

Former Google product lead for Responsible AI, Enterprise AI Agents, and the Imagen and Veo generative models. Selected for Google's APM program. Clinical AI researcher at Stanford School of Medicine and a medical assistant at the SF Free Clinic. Dartmouth.

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Lalit Kundu, Co-Founder and CTO of Pelica Health
Lalit Kundu
Co-Founder & CTO

Former Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at Google and YouTube, area tech lead for a 45-plus engineer team in YouTube Commerce Billing. Forbes Technology Council member. Wharton MBA. ACM-ICPC World Finalist, the top 0.1% of competitive programmers.

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What we believe

01

Execution beats insight

Dashboards describe the problem. Value is created when the work gets done. We build the layer that closes the loop, not another report that asks a person to.

02

One record, every team

Risk, quality, pharmacy, network, and care management see the same member. One canonical record removes the coordination tax and the duplicate outreach that comes with 8 to 15 point vendors.

03

Provenance by default

Every recommendation is documentation-checked, RADV-defensible, and submission-window aware. An action you cannot defend in an audit is not a feature, it is exposure.

By the numbers

Figures from live deployments, including our flagship physician-led IPA in New York. See how we measure them →

175,000+
Patients managed live on Pelica
~10 hrs
Saved per user per week at our flagship IPA
96%
Adherence on the three triple-weighted Part D measures
2 to 4 wks
From kickoff to a live copilot, not a multi-quarter project

Backed by

Pelica is a Y Combinator company, supported by investors who back technical founders in healthcare.

Y Combinator SurgePoint Capital Upside Partnership ISEED Ventures Progressive Ventures

See Pelica on your own population.

We are forward-deployed. In a short working session we map your data, stand up a copilot, and show the work it closes. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and a BAA are available before any PHI changes hands.