Tanay Tandon

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  Tanay Tandon on Agents in RCM, Nikhil Krishnan, and Fat Cells That Remember | HCN Ep. 10

  October 08, 2026 · 📺 Health Care Network

  Can fat cells remember obesity, and are systems of agents about to take over healthcare administration? This week on HCN, Cedric Kovacs-Johnson and Danish Nagda dig into a suspected plague scare in Russia, a Nature paper on fat cell memory, and this year's Nobel for optogenetics. Tanay Tandon, CEO of COMMURE, joins to explain how AI agents could reshape revenue cycle and payer fights. Nikhil Krishnan, Founder/Thinkboi at Out-of-Pocket, shares who is building healthcare companies now and why he's optimistic. 00:00 — Bookmarks: The Best Things We Found This Week Cedric and Danish share favori…

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  How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company

  September 03, 2026 · 📺 The Neon Show

  How do you fix a $5 Trillion Industry which wastes $500 Billion on mouse clicks every year? By not considering even a $100 Billion company a success. By hiring people who are heat-seeking missiles for pain. By questioning every default. By solving hard problems, then choosing even harder ones. By moving with an urgency that surprises everyone but you. In this episode, Tanay Tandon, Co-Founder & CEO, Commure explains why US healthcare is a massive but inefficient market, which pays ~$500B in administrative “work tax,” and how language models and agentic software can automate much of that work…

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  Commure CEO Tanay Tandon on AI, RCM, and Scaling to $7B

  August 05, 2026 · 📺 Care Shift with Vik

  Tanay Tandon started Commure at 18 out of his Stanford dorm room, building FDA-cleared blood diagnostics before pivoting into revenue cycle management and ambient documentation. Today Commure is valued at $7B, processes tens of billions in claims annually, and automates 85%+ of billing workflows. In this episode, Tanay breaks down the Athelas-Commure merger, why he thinks point solutions are dead, how Commure partners with (and competes against) Epic, the Rockefeller-inspired financing playbook behind their $70M raise, and where AI actually falls short in healthcare today. Timestamps: 00:00 –…

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  Google I/O 2026, Birth Rate Debates, SpaceX IPO, Karpathy Joins Anthropic

  May 19, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

  00:04:15 Google I/O Reactions 00:28:20 Karpathy Joins Anthropic 00:32:35 Reactions to Spotify's New Icon 00:37:55 Birth Rate Debates 00:49:24 Jim Belosic, CEO and founder of SendCutSend, a company specializing in on-demand manufacturing services, discusses the recent achievement of securing a $110 million investment, valuing the company at $1 billion. He shares plans to utilize the funds to expand operations, including hiring additional staff and enhancing software capabilities, aiming to establish facilities near major metropolitan areas to expedite service delivery. Belosic also highlights t…

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  How He Turned a Blood Test Startup Into $7B OS for Healthcare

  May 19, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

  Tanay Tandon, Co-Founder and CEO of Commure, joins Sourcery to break down the company's new $70M round at a $7B post-money valuation, led by General Catalyst with participation from Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Kirkland & Ellis. With $750M raised to date, Commure now runs inside 500+ healthcare organizations, 3,000+ sites of care, and processes tens of billions of dollars in annual claims — with 85%+ of revenue cycle work completed without a human in the loop. Tanay started the company at 18 out of his Stanford dorm room. Today, Commure has 1,200 employees across seven offices, suppor…

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  Is Health AI Already a Commodity? Abridge, Commure & CommonSpirit Health in Conversation

  March 13, 2026 · 📺 Lux Capital

  AI scribes, copilots, and clinical assistants have flooded the healthcare market, but is this a genuine platform shift, or simply the fastest race to zero the sector has ever seen? Lux Capital Co-founder Peter Hebert moderates a sharp debate with Julia Chou (COO, Abridge), Tanay Tandon (CEO, Commure), and Rich Roth (SVP & Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, CommonSpirit Health) on what's already commoditizing and what remains defensible. The panelists argue that trust is the true moat in healthcare AI — and that durable companies are built through years of deep clinical partnerships, not by s…

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  Commure: The AI Operating System for Healthcare

  October 29, 2025 · 📺 YC Root Access

  Tanay Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of Athelas / Commure, the AI operating system for healthcare. Commure’s technology powers over 20 million appointments annually and processes more than $25 billion in claims volume, helping clinicians and health systems work faster, smarter, and spend more time on patient care. In this fireside with YC’s Ankit Gupta, Tanay shares how he built one of the most ambitious companies in healthcare, what AI means for doctors and patients, and why the next decade of medicine will be defined by software. Chapters: 00:00 – From Rejection Letters to YC Acceptance…

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  Could Hospitals Really Achieve a 25% Operating Margin? (#446)

  August 30, 2025 · 📺 Healthcare Rap

  Tanay Tandon, CEO of Commure, shares the value of giving providers back time in their day, the difference between augmenting providers and automating care, and how to simplify aspects of the patient experience that seem invisible.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about a new research paper on the Apple Watch. How far away are we from fitness devices actually detecting diseases at scale, and could the Apple Watch actually have a Check Engine Light for your health?  SPOTLIGHT: FRIDAYS  Lose weight with GLP-1 + GIP treatment, lifestyle coaching, and full support, for one transparent…

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  Commure CEO Tanay Tandon

  August 25, 2025 · 📺 The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast

  Hospitals are under immense pressure: burned-out clinicians, outdated systems, and rising costs have made delivering care harder than ever.  Tanay Tandon, founder and CEO of Commure, shares how his team is rethinking hospital infrastructure by combining AI, forward-deployed engineering, and a provider-first mindset. Backed by over $750M in funding, Commure is using strategic M&A and next-gen tools like ambient AI to reduce administrative burden, improve revenue cycle operations, and protect clinical staff. We cover: 📉 How Commure grew claims volume 5x without hiring more staff 🧠 Why the “cop…

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  Tanay Tandon, Commure

  March 23, 2025 · 📺 The Health Care Blog's Channel

  Tanay Tandon is CEO of Commure, which is essentially a startup conglomerate which includes the original Commure, Tanay's company Athelas, ambient scribe Augmedix, the Strongline staff safety product, Memora Health's workflows and more. HCA, the big for-profit chain, is one of the biggest customers and an investor in Commure. I grabbed Tanay at HIMSS earlier this month to understand what Commure was building and what he thinks co-pilots/auto-pilots can eventually do in the hospital. Tanay's aiming for a time when the combo of all the products mean doctors don't have to touch their keyboard. But…

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  Tanay Tandon: CEO @Commure, Building Customer Relationships, Scaling Through M&A | Slush 2024

  November 27, 2024 · 📺 Slush

  With rigorous regulations, intricate networks, even lives on the line… what does it take to build a startup in the healthcare sector? How do you win over customers in such a demanding sector, and how can strategic mergers and acquisitions propel growth? In this fireside chat with Brett Gibson from Initialized Capital, Tanay Tandon, CEO of Commure and co-founder of Athelas, will share his learnings about navigating growth in the healthcare sector, including their strategies for acquiring customers in a tightly regulated market and how Commure has leveraged M&A to scale in the industry. --- Sl…

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  Fireside Chat with Tanay Tandon of Athelas

  December 01, 2022 · 📺 YC Root Access

  Surbhi Sarna, YC Group Partner, and Tanay Tandon, Founder, CEO of Athelas (YC S16) at the 2022 YC Health and Bio Summit.

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