Healthcare

Empirical Health

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Don't die of heart disease. While heart disease is the #1 killer worldwide, 80% of heart disease is preventable. Empirical's program starts with an advanced lab test with 100+ biomarkers, including ApoB, Lp(a), inflammation, and more. Then, we help you model your lifetime risk of heart disease and generate a plan to reduce your risk to an optima

Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Don't die of heart disease. While heart disease is the #1 killer worldwide, 80% of heart disease is preventable.

Empirical's program starts with an advanced lab test with 100+ biomarkers, including ApoB, Lp(a), inflammation, and more. Then, we help you model your lifetime risk of heart disease and generate a plan to reduce your risk to an optimal level. Then we help you achieve that plan.

Empirical is licensed, registered, and insured to deliver real medical care in 30+ US states covering 200m+ people. We're growing >25% monthly.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Brandon Ballinger

Founder

AI in medicine. Co-founder at * Empirical Health (YC S23) - full stack preventive heart health scaled with AI * Cardiogram (acquired) - deep learning for heart disease * Sift - top 50 YC company, machine learning for fraud detection. Also: * HealthCare.gov rescue team * Google tech lead on machine learning for speech recognition * Head of Risk Engineering at Brex

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Raquel Rodriguez Martinez

Founder

Physician | Health Technology | Co-founder at Empirical Health | Previously Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF & Family Medicine at Kaiser

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-11-05

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