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# Slingshot

Slingshot is AI that analyzes medical records to determine if the diagnosis is supported by the clinical evidence. The company is founded by Pranov Duggasani, a former Google and Microsoft AI engineer, and Zoe Holderness, a former Lyft and Tesla engineer. They started working on Slingshot after facing their own frustrations with inflated and erroneous medical bills with the goal to save patients more money with less work.

sources

2

Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

2

Techstars, Y Combinator

competitors

6

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

status

generated

artifact cache

last updated

2026-07-15

17:19 UTC

source evidence

Why this company exists here

## Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2408

[official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/slingshot)

## Techstars

techstars-portfolio #4210

[official source](https://www.techstars.com/portfolio)

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High Signal interpretation

Slingshot is classified as **AI infrastructure** 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

SlingshotAI

mapping method

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.

discovery cluster

## Companies similar to Slingshot

AI infrastructure · 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.

[### Avelis Health match 54𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: I (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills. This inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever seshared product terms: bill, inflat, facing, less; shared product theme: health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/avelis-health)[### Orchid match 54Orchid is an AI-powered Electronic Health Record (EHR) for independent mental health professionals that saves them time, money, and frustration by integrating core administrative workflows, streamlining clinical processes, and automating manual flows.shared product terms: record, save, money, frustration; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/orchid)[### Fairway Health match 51Fairway Health is an AI-assistant for health insurers to quickly process patient treatment authorizations. We use LLMs to analyze long (70+ page), messy medical records and determine if a patient is eligible for a treatment.shared product terms: patient, analyze, medical, record; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/fairway-health)[### Commissary Club (formerly 70 Million Jobs) match 43Rising from the ashes of 70 Million Jobs, Commissary Club is a community built to address the most urgent needs of a billion+ people globally who have a record: employment, housing, access to medical and legal services, along with community, friendship and connections. Each user receives their own agentic agent who not only answers questions but actually solves problems: applies for jobs and housing, makes referrals, provides training, makes introductions, etc. We make money through advertising shared product terms: record, medical, own, money; shared product theme: context and memory, health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/commissary-club-formerly-70-million-jobs)[### Andy AI match 41Andy is AI software that completes documentation for nurses doing home visits. Our software saves $8B a year; Tiantian was previously a PM at Google’s healthcare business and Max was a staff engineer on the health team at Apple. Andy benefits nurses and the agencies that employ them. Agencies that use Andy see up to 45% more detailed charts, 2x greater nurse productivity, and timely submission (no more billing delays!) With Andy, clinicians get their evenings back. Home health is the fastest groshared product terms: google, engineer, bill, save; shared product theme: health and clinical care; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/andy-ai)[### Slingshot AI match 11AI infrastructure company.shared product terms: slingshot; same category: AI infrastructure](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/slingshot-ai)

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