Saathvik Boompelli

Excited to announce our $4.3M Seed Round, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Alt Capital (Jack Altman) and First Harmonic (Ali Rowghani) and the public launch of Alleviate Health. Alleviate empowers research sites’ best recruiters to connect with more patients by making their days 10x more efficient. Our SMS and Voice agents engage patients at scale, pass them to recruiters if they pre-qualify via a transferred or scheduled call, and automatically update any CTMS or CRM. We’re already working with 7 of the top 15 research site networks in the country. Our agents have been battle-tested across 500k+ patient interactions, 190+ sites, and 300+ unique trials. They yield the highest conversion rates of any solution on the market due to optimization across every possible patient population, indication, and workflow in the recruitment process. We've tripled our patient volume in the past 3 months and are hiring across all roles. @mandrusko1 @JayRughani @JorgeCondeBio @a16z @a16zBioHealth @jaltma @ROWGHANI @TheManMikeTan @JdotJdotF

Going from new discovery to novel drug is a marathon. And patients are waiting. China’s rising biopharma industry is running that race far faster than the US. A key bottleneck: recruiting the right patients into our clinical trials. We need better technology if we hope to catch up. @a16z is excited to back @SaathvikB02 + @john_shoe_ as they build Alleviate Health, the AI recruiter for clinical trials.

@juanpellerano @letswinpc You can shoot me an message at saathvik@alleviatehealth.care!

@SaathvikB02 Congratulations on the raise, @SaathvikB02 ! I’m on the board of @letswinpc and we could really benefit from this technology for one of our initiatives. Is there a best way to get in touch?

Excited to announce our $4.3M Seed Round, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Alt Capital (Jack Altman) and First Harmonic (Ali Rowghani) and the public launch of Alleviate Health. Alleviate empowers research sites’ best recruiters to connect with more patients by making their days 10x more efficient. Our SMS and Voice agents engage patients at scale, pass them to recruiters if they pre-qualify via a transferred or scheduled call, and automatically update any CTMS or CRM. We’re already working with 7 of the top 15 research site networks in the country. Our agents have been battle-tested across 500k+ patient interactions, 190+ sites, and 300+ unique trials. They yield the highest conversion rates of any solution on the market due to optimization across every possible patient population, indication, and workflow in the recruitment process. We've tripled our patient volume in the past 3 months and are hiring across all roles. @mandrusko1 @JayRughani @JorgeCondeBio @a16z @a16zBioHealth @jaltma @ROWGHANI @TheManMikeTan @JdotJdotF

@aidangch Thanks man, let’s catch up soon.

@SaathvikB02 congrats on getting twitter bro, and the seed

appreciate a startup launch video that actually centers the customer and uses quotes + videos from them!

@jerhadf Thanks Jeremy!

Clinical trials are a vital step in the development of new medicines. Unfortunately, we're not very good at enrolling patients in them. We run more clinical trials than ever, yet the vast majority of studies fail to hit their enrollment deadlines. It’s a crisis that slows medical progress for patients who need new therapeutic options. Alleviate Health solves the bottleneck in clinical trial recruitment. Today, we @a16z are excited to announce leading Alleviate’s initial financing round, alongside our friends @jaltma, @ROWGHANI, @sajithw, @TreyHolterman, @joshm, @zerogee, & Christophe (Camber). Alleviate is a conversational AI platform built specifically for clinical research sites. Its human-in-the-loop AI agents engage patients via SMS and voice, verify eligibility, and schedule appointments, all while looping in human research coordinators when needed.The result: faster enrollment, less drop-off, and a far better experience for both patients and staff. In a short time, @SaathvikB02 and @john_shoe_ built an enterprise-grade AI platform trusted by leading research sites, and they now ship at the pace of the best early-stage engineering teams we’ve seen. If you want to supercharge your trial recruitment efforts, or just believe AI can make healthcare work better for patients and providers, check out Alleviate. @mandrusko1 @JorgeCondeBio

@SaathvikB02 and I have been heads down for the past year creating the most effective tool for clinical research. Excited to finally share what we’ve been working on!

Back in February, I was invited back to my alma mater (@DukeU) to guest lecture and spend time with the university’s emerging founder community. I didn’t expect to source a deal — I was just excited to contribute to Duke’s growing culture of tech and entrepreneurship. But then I met @SaathvikB02 and @john_shoe_ — two standout engineers already building a thriving AI company in one of the most regulated industries on earth. What started as a coffee conversation in the bowels of the business school quickly turned into a flight to NYC and a $4M term sheet. Today, I couldn’t be more excited to share that we @a16z are leading Alleviate Health's seed round, alongside incredible investors including @jaltma, @ROWGHANI, @sajithw, @TreyHolterman, Josh Miller (Gradient Health), Max Cohen (Sprinter Health), and Christophe Rimann (Camber). Patient recruitment is still one of the hardest parts of running a clinical trial. Sites are overwhelmed. Outreach is manual. And promising studies get delayed — or derailed — because qualified patients don’t get enrolled in time. Alleviate Health fixes this. Alleviate is a conversational AI platform that transforms how clinical sites engage, screen, and schedule patients. Its SMS and voice agents handle high-volume outreach in natural language and seamlessly loop in human recruiters when needed. The result: faster enrollment, less drop-off, and much higher conversion rates. Alleviate is already working with 7 of the top 15 research site networks in the country, and has facilitated over half a million patient interactions. In one trial, a site tripled screening visits. In another, Alleviate helped book 27 qualified patients in just 9 days. Why Now? Three structural shifts make this the right moment for Alleviate: -AI that’s ready for the real world: LLMs can now manage nuanced, compliant patient conversations at scale -Understaffed sites need leverage: Recruiters don’t need another dashboard — they need work done -Patients expect personalized + modern experiences: The days of voicemails and static forms are over Alleviate delivers automation without losing empathy — and it does so with HIPAA compliance and security built in. Most impressive of all is what Saathvik and John have accomplished in such a short period of time. They’ve built an enterprise-grade AI platform, won the trust of leading research sites, and are shipping at the pace of the best early-stage engineering teams we’ve seen. We're proud to be their partners as they reimagine trial recruitment from the ground up. Like many of my favorite deals here at a16z, this was a textbook collaboration between our Apps + Bio/Health practices (cc @JayRughani and @JorgeCondeBio). If you’re running trials and want to recruit faster — or help reinvent the patient experience — come talk to us! alleviatehealth.care

@taayjus @zfellows @OpenAI @Max @JoshConstine @SignalFire Dope doing this with you man

Huge week at @zfellows just wrapped up!! We visited @OpenAI, had a wicked chat with @Max about his Instacart journey, and got deep feedback from @JoshConstine at @SignalFire. And not to mention being in a cohort of fellow cracked builders. This was the first time where “coding since 10”didn’t make me unique; many others were the same! Huge thanks to @cory @0baylor for organizing such a unique program. If you’re an ambitious builder, 100% recommend you apply or feel free to dm me about it. Reached even greater heights of inspiration for @heyconstella and now time to keep sprinting faster 🏃🏃