Ashish Mandavia

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Dr Ashish Mandavia is co-founder and CEO of Sohar Health, a New York–based healthtech company building API-first infrastructure for insurance eligibility verification in US behavioural health. The platform handles the front end of revenue cycle management — verifying coverage, checking benefits and flagging payer issues in seconds rather than the hours or days these checks typically take.

A former NHS doctor trained at Imperial College London, Ashish moved into healthtech as a product manager building triage software for UK emergency rooms before joining Pelago (formerly Quit Genius) as an early team member. There he served as Chief Information Security Officer, led SOC-2 and HITRUST compliance, and helped take the digital substance-use clinic from pre-seed through Series B. He met his Sohar co-founder, CTO Lucas Gordon, while at Pelago.

Sohar Health graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and has raised over $4m from investors including Y Combinator, Kindred Capital, General Catalyst and Concept Ventures. The platform now processes more than five million eligibility checks a year for customers including Talkiatry, Tava Health and Monument, with a reported 12% lift in patient conversion. Ashish is based between Dubai and London.