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Empirical Health

Don't die of heart attack. Scaling preventive heart health with AI.

Preventive heart health. Don't die of a heart attack -- use Empirical Health to measure 100+ biomarkers, predict your future risk of heart disease, and create a customized prevention plan with a doctor. We AI to deliver preventive health at scale. We're licensed, registered, and insured to deliver real medical care in 30+ US states covering 200m+ people.
Active Founders
Brandon Ballinger
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
Raquel Rodriguez Martinez
Raquel Rodriguez Martinez
Founder
Physician | Health Technology | Co-founder at Empirical Health | Previously Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF & Family Medicine at Kaiser
Company Launches
Empirical: don't die of a heart attack
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Hi! We’re Brandon, Raquel, Harish, and Wyatt—we’re a team of doctors and engineers here to help you improve your heart health. We previously worked at Kaiser, Google, and Apple, and ran one of the first studies to use deep learning to detect abnormal heart rhythms using the Apple Watch's heart rate sensor.

Heart disease kills more people than all cancers combined—but it’s also the area of health most in your control. 80% of heart attacks can be avoided, and your risk is predictable using statistical models up to 30 years in advance.

Today, we’re launching Empirical heart health. We help you measure key heart biomarkers (including ApoB), predict your personal heart disease risk, and build a tailored action plan—covering nutrition, medication, and exercise.

Here’s how it works. Or just get started now.

Measure: 85+ biomarkers for $190

Empirical heart health starts with a $190 test measuring 85+ biomarkers—available at 2,200+ locations nationwide.

You’ll get insights into key heart markers like:

Predict: model your heart attack risk

Next, we show how your heart attack risk could change by age 70—

  • If you do nothing
  • If you follow a tailored plan with medication, diet, and exercise

Many people cut their risk by 50% or more with the right changes.

Prevent: personalized action plans

“Eat less red meat.” “Eat more greens.” You’ve heard it all before.

This is different. We build a biomarker-driven nutrition plan tailored to your bloodwork—targeting the exact nutrients that matter for your heart. These tailored plans have been shown in the medical literature to be about twice as effective as a simple "eat more fruits and vegetables" diet.

And tracking? Just snap a photo of your meal. We’ll use AI to analyze nutrients like fiber, potassium, sodium, saturated fat, and more.

Help prevent 1 million heart attacks

Help us save one million people from heart disease by 2027. Empirical Heart health is available today across 30+ states, reaching over 200 million people.

Get started yourself, or share with a loved one.

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Jobs at Empirical Health
New York, NY, US
$140K - $260K
1.00% - 3.00%
3+ years
Empirical Health
Founded:2023
Batch:Summer 2023
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Location:New York
Primary Partner:Garry Tan