Parakeet Health builds AI voice agents that answer calls at doctor's offices and automate appointment scheduling, billing and inquiries, with paying clients and a venture-backed team.
Parakeet Health builds AI voice agents that answer phone calls at doctor's offices and handle the repetitive tasks that consume a practice's front desk - appointment scheduling, billing questions and general inquiries. The company's ambition is explicit: within five years, every doctor's office should have an AI voice agent picking up the phone. Longer term, the aim is a single agent capable of handling the full range of medical administrative work, with the stated purpose of making care more affordable, effective and enjoyable for patients.
The firm is venture-backed, with investors including Canvas Ventures, CoFound Partners and Storyhouse Ventures. Angel backers include the founder of One Medical and Galileo, the former CTO of Twitter and a co-founder of Tend Dental. It already has paying clients and a pipeline of practices scheduled for onboarding within the year.
The team pairs engineers with veterans of the healthcare industry. Backgrounds span One Medical (IPO), Epocrates (IPO), Twitter, Rippling, Microsoft and Primer AI. The technical work sits at the intersection of generative AI, conversational AI and speech and telephony automation, applied to a vertical - physician practices - where reliability and domain fluency matter as much as model quality.
Those drawn to hard technical problems with direct consequences for patients and clinicians will find the mandate unusually concrete: replace hold music with software that works.
