Avelis Health YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Avelis Health went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a Healthcare company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2025
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Angel OnuohaFounder
Ahmad ShehuFounder

What Avelis Health does

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: I (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills. This inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever sees a bill. So we launched payment integrity, machine-learning models that audit every medical claim for self-insured employers and health plans in real time. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: • Self-insured employers waste $60 B+ each year on claims that never should have been paid. Healthcare is the 2nd largest company expense after payroll. • Manual audits are slow and partial: Reviewers focus only on high-dollar claims, letting millions more slip through unnoticed. • Existing audit software is static: Decades-old rule engines can’t keep pace with evolving codes, contracts, or billing tactics. • Incentives are misaligned: Third-party administrators are paid to process claims, not to police them, so accuracy checks are minimal. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Our models audit medical claims before and after payments have been issued. We catch nuanced billing, coding, and contract errors to save 3-7% on annual claims spend. We work with self-insured employers and health plans. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬: Angel Onuoha (CEO) and Ahmad Shehu (CTO) have worked together for 4 years. Before Avelis Health they built Zuvy, a Lagos-based fintech company that provided invoice factoring to small businesses. Zuvy was acquired by The BAS Group in 2025.

Avelis Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Avelis Health, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Avelis Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Auditing medical claims for employers and health plans

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build machine-learning models that audit medical claims before and after payment for self-insured employers and health plans. Our system catches billing, coding, and contract errors in real time, saving 3-7% on claims spend.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We don't have a fixed location yet; the company remains remote and flexible. After YC we're open to basing wherever helps us best build connections and grow.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We value flexibility and access to talent. We'll gravitate to hubs with strong healthcare tech and insurance networks post-YC.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Avelis Health YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Avelis Health's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Avelis Health would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.