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Cero

At Cero, we solve specific coordination tasks between hospitals and patients, such as appointment confirmations and last minute cancellations, by automatically communicating with patients over WhatsApp. For example, a patient can confirm and reschedule their appointment without needing to call anyone. Almost half of the medical appointments in Latin America are missed because patients simply do not show up. This ranges from missing a regular dentist check to missing an expensive MRI scan. With i

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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At Cero, we solve specific coordination tasks between hospitals and patients, such as appointment confirmations and last minute cancellations, by automatically communicating with patients over WhatsApp. For example, a patient can confirm and reschedule their appointment without needing to call anyone. Almost half of the medical appointments in Latin America are missed because patients simply do not show up. This ranges from missing a regular dentist check to missing an expensive MRI scan. With i

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High Signal interpretation

Cero is classified as Healthcare from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
WhatsApppatientshospitals
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Cero

Healthcare · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Vocality Health

match 71

Our app allows doctors to speak any language, eliminating the need for human medical translators in hospitals and clinics. Despite spending billions on in-person and remote translators—mostly through outdated call centers—hospitals still fail to provide adequate care for non-English-speaking patients. We're building the most accurate and compliant medical language translation system across voice and video modalities.

shared extracted concepts: hospitals; shared product terms: hospital, patient, need, call; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

DocVita

match 68

We make it easy for anyone in India to access healthcare over Zoom, Meet, or WhatsApp. We provide care in 11 local languages. For every appointment, we provide a concierge who manages all logistics for the patient & handles the back-office work for doctors. With this, we have cracked the code to make telehealth work in India.

shared extracted concepts: whatsapp; shared product terms: patient, appointment, over, whatsapp; shared product theme: health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Shift Health

match 65

We help large provider groups and hospitals take their most mundane repetitive tasks and turn them into automated workflows. Freeing up healthcare workers to focus on the important stuff, like patients

shared extracted concepts: patients, hospitals; shared product terms: task, hospital, patient, up; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mytos

match 65

Mytos builds robots for manufacturing human cells. Operators input stem cells, and our platform turns them into specific cells such as neurons and heart cells over multiple weeks. Last year, patients were cured of Parkinson’s, vision loss, and Type 1 diabetes using stem-cell derived cells. We need 1000x the global capacity to produce these cells, and treat millions of patients. But today these Regenerative Medicines are produced by hand, meaning they’re too expensive and don’t scale. Mytos has f

shared product terms: specific, patient, such, last; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Examedi

match 61

Examedi is a healthcare-at-home marketplace in Latin America that sends nurses and lab technicians directly to patients’ homes for appointments. It’s like Uber, but for medical lab work.

shared extracted concepts: patients; shared product terms: patient, appointment, medical, latin; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: Healthcare; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Emergency Response Africa

match 49

Emergency Response Africa - Delivering emergency care in minutes by connecting anyone that needs help with the largest network of first responders, emergency vehicles, and hospitals

shared extracted concepts: hospitals; shared product terms: minute, anyone, need, hospital; shared product theme: health and clinical care