Arctic Health

Raghav Mehrish spent five years at Airbnb leading host growth and internationalization — now he's building AI-powered credentialing for healthcare providers, which is exactly as bleak as it sounds until you realize the US healthcare system loses billions annually to paperwork delays and provider onboarding bottlenecks. Arctic Health, in the YC P26 batch, is betting that AI can cut months off a process that currently takes Providers an average of three to four months to get credentialed with insurers — they're targeting the admin side of healthcare that most founders run away from. It's a hard, unsexy space, but the team has the technical pedigree to pull off what's been called a "dark horse" in the current YC batch — if they can nail the compliance layer, this becomes a genuine infrastructure play.