Healthcare

Kaizen

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Kaizen is a digital employee that helps healthcare providers get patients into care faster. It processes referrals, verifies insurance benefits, manages prior authorizations, and handles provider credentialing across the systems teams already use. Kaizen works with $100M+ healthcare providers to drive seven-figure ROI with AI.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Michael Silver

Founder/CEO

Michael was Gather’s first engineer and head of infrastructure, scaling the business through Series B ($77M Sequoia/Index). He also served as first engineer at Jamsocket (acq. Modal), helping build a new Kubernetes-like orchestrator in Rust. Previously, he worked on databases at SingleStore, distributed systems at Meta, and Siri at Apple. Michael conducted research on question answering and information retrieval at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
6team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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