This week: We did it again! Another successful poker night for the books.
We believe community is one of the most underrated advantages in tech. When founders, operators, and investors actually know each other, things move faster. Ideas spread faster. Most importantly, people help each other.
Our monthly poker nights have become a small way to bring that community together. Thank you to all who attended and thank you to ACME Capital and Camber for co-hosting.
Of course, we made sure players were fueled. This time, fueled by Tacombi tacos. If you arrived early enough, you probably got your hands on the birria tacos. A strong incentive to show up on the earlier end next round?
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⭐ About Arya ⭐
Arya Health
Every year, the U.S. spends more than $450 billion on non-clinical administrative work in healthcare-tasks like intake, scheduling, onboarding, compliance, and payroll coordination. In post-acute care, up to 27% of total budgets go toward these functions.
Arya is building a new model: a digital workforce purpose-built for distributed care. Our agents sit alongside the EMR and autonomously manage the workflows that humans currently accomplish by hand. This means manually onboarding patients and caregivers, scheduling shifts, tracking compliance, following up with caregivers, and more.
Kunal Sarda, CEO
Previously, he founded VerbalizeIt, a tech-enabled services platform powered by a global community of over 24,000 skilled workers. VerbalizeIt was acquired in 2016 by Smartling.
Earlier in his career, he worked as a management consultant, guiding global commercial strategy for early-stage and Fortune 500 healthcare companies. He is a proud alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Techstars graduate, and was named by Inc. Magazine as a Top 35 Under 35 Entrepreneur.