WashU McKelvey School of Engineering · Feb 2026
Profiles cofounder Tej Seelamsetty and explains Tivara's healthcare communications automation product, client traction, and founding story with Aumesh Misra.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Tivara is a New York City-based healthcare IT startup building AI voice agents for medical groups to automate patient calls, prior authorization, scheduling, refills, intake, after-hours triage, and related EMR workflows.
Primary product
AI voice agents / patient-engagement automation for medical groups
Founded
2024
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Healthcare IT
Sub-industry
Patient engagement and prior authorization automation
Offices
New York City, NY, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise software
sales-led custom contract
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$4.2M
Latest round
Seed · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$3.6M
People & investors
Work & culture
The public hiring materials emphasize customer obsession, extreme ownership, continuous learning, low ego, and shipping quickly in a small in-person NYC founding team.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show a founding backend engineer range of $120K-$225K base salary plus 0.5%-1.0% equity, with in-person NYC work and U.S. work authorization implied.
Benefits
Equity / ownership
Fully paid health, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) plan
Daily in-office lunch
Office gym access
Product & market
Pricing
Custom quote / sales-led enterprise pricing
Differentiators
- —Focuses on administrative workflows rather than clinical decision-making
- —Automates patient-facing phone calls 24/7
- —Writes directly into EMRs / practice systems
- —Targets specialty medical groups and patient-access bottlenecks
- —Emphasizes HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance
Technology
LLMs
voice AI
telephony
speech-to-text
text-to-speech
EMR/EHR integrations
practice management system integrations
workflow automation
HIPAA compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 compliance
Customers
Los Angeles Cancer Network
Astera Customer Care
Large specialty medical groups
Competitors
SamaCare
Cohere Health
NantHealth
Develop Health
Hyro
Assort Health
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $330K ARR (public estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
2.7K
Latest news
Forbes · Jan 2026
Covers Tivara as part of the healthcare AI landscape and quotes Tej Seelamsetty on automation boundaries; also references Tivara's reported impact and recent seed funding.
Business Insider · Jan 2026
Reports Tivara's $3.6M seed round, lists Mischief VC, Day One Ventures, Y Combinator, and healthcare angels, and says the company serves large specialty medical groups and had five full-time employees at the time.
LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Company recruiting post noting the NYC in-person setup, real-time voice AI systems, and that the team was already seeing adoption from large medical groups.
Y Combinator · Jul 2024
Official launch post describing Tivara's initial prior-authorization automation product and the bottleneck it addresses in medical groups.
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