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Text-based healthcare that slashes employer health spend

We deliver high-quality, affordable healthcare to employees through text. Employers cut 10–20% of healthcare spend. Employees get concierge care they love. Our AI-enabled virtual care treats common conditions over text or video. For in-person care, our AI agents search across all in-network providers using millions of price and quality data points, recommend the best options, then coordinate scheduling. Employees get rewarded for choosing high-value care through copay reimbursements. We've already contracted to roll out to thousands of employees across multiple employers for the 2025-2026 plan year. We're on a mission to build member-aligned, AI-native health insurance, starting with cost containment.
Active Founders
Santosh Vallabhaneni
Santosh Vallabhaneni
Founder
Santosh is the CEO of Rovi Health, building AI-enabled, text-based healthcare. Previously GM of Cedar’s patient affordability products, sold millions in ARR to the largest health systems in the country. Early employee at AngelList, led their GTM and Customer Success teams. Also a licensed health insurance broker.
Tarun Vallabhaneni
Tarun Vallabhaneni
Founder
Tarun is the CTO and co-founder of Rovi Health, building AI-enabled, text-based healthcare. Previously, Tarun was working on foundational AI models to predict extreme weather events. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UChicago, specializing in AI and high-performance computing, and a B.S. in Biology from Cornell.
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Rovi Health: Text-based healthcare that slashes employer health spend
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⏳TL/DR

Rovi helps employees access high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. We text employees the best in-network options at exactly the right moment, and handle all the complexity.

  • Our AI-enabled virtual care treats common conditions quickly over text or video.
  • For complex care, our AI agents search across all in-network providers using millions of price and quality data points, then handle scheduling and logistics.
  • Employees get rewarded for choosing high-value care through copay reimbursements and waived deductibles.

Launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNB0CF8_9Y

⚠️ The Problem

Healthcare costs are crushing employers. 2025 is seeing a 9% rate hike, the worst in a decade. A 1,000-person company now faces over $1M in cost increases annually, compounding.

Employers’ only options are to cut benefits or redesign their entire plan. Both take months and frustrate employees.

What if Employers could offset these costs by adding benefits instead?

🤨 How is this possible?

Price and quality have no correlation in healthcare:

  • The same MRI: $700 at an imaging center vs $2,500 at a hospital. Same network. Same machine.
  • The same knee surgery: $7,000 at a surgery center vs $25,000 at a hospital. Same surgeon. Often better outcomes at the surgery center.

So why does everyone end up with the expensive option?

  1. Hospitals own the referral pipeline. They consolidated most primary care practices. When your doctor orders a procedure, their systems automatically directs it to their expensive facilities.
  2. Shopping is impossible. Prices are hidden, provider directors outdated, quality is opaque. And when you're sick, calling twelve clinics is the last thing you want to do.

Rovi does the hard work. Our AI agents analyze terabytes of pricing data, research every provider's quality metrics, and surface options matching each person's preferences for cost, convenience, and availability. Making good healthcare decisions drives down costs for both the employee and the employer.

🎯 Impact

We save employers 10-20% on healthcare spend while improving care outcomes and delivering a health benefit that employees love.

We've already signed contracts to roll out to thousands of employees across multiple employers for the 2025-2026 plan year.

🙏🏾 Our ask

  1. Employers: We have two final Q1 spots for self-funded employers. Introductions to employer benefits teams, brokers, health plans, and TPAs are welcome. Reach out to santosh@rovihealth.com.
  2. Individuals: Join our beta to try our AI care concierge. Rovi will find you great in-network doctors whenever you need care. Virtual care coming soon.

👬🏾 Our team

We're brothers on a mission to build AI-native health insurance that members love.

Santosh was previously building Cedar's affordability products, scaling to millions in ARR by closing enterprise deals with the country's largest hospital systems. Before that, he led a 30-person GTM & Customer Success team at AngelList. He’s also a licensed health insurance broker.

Tarun built foundational AI models to predict extreme weather events at UChicago, where he earned a Master's in AI and high-performance computing. He has a B.S. in biology from Cornell, and is obsessed with using AI to solve healthcare's messiest data problems.

Rovi Health
Founded:2025
Batch:Fall 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Pete Koomen