Adding 1 billion years of healthy lifespan to humanity
Clara is an AI-first primary care practice. We pair licensed clinicians with AI that synthesizes your complete health picture to surface insights that traditional 15-minute visits miss.
The result is proactive, personalized care delivered virtually through secure messaging and video visits. A real medical practice with real clinicians, powered by technology that makes them dramatically better.
Team
Clara is based in San Francisco and built by a team that has collectively scaled health tech companies to over $20 billion in market capitalization. We bring together decades of deep experience in primary care, clinical safety, product, engineering, and AI.
Brendan Levy, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Brendan Levy is a board-certified family medicine physician and one of the most recognized physician entrepreneurs in the country. The medical platforms he has founded or built have served over 5 million patients and generated billions in market capitalization. He has led the medical groups at Lemonaid Health and Hims & Hers, and founded and served as CEO of HeyDoctor (YC S17), whose EMR and platform powered GoodRx Care and Wheel. After HeyDoctor was acquired by GoodRx, Brendan stayed on as Chief Medical Officer through the company’s IPO.
George Favvas
Cofounder and CEO
George is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building technology products. He previously co-founded and led Circle Medical as CEO for a decade, growing it into one of the largest virtual primary care practices in the U.S. Under George’s leadership the company grew to over $100M in annual revenue and was profitable, with only $12M in primary capital. George is an angel investor and mentor to numerous startups in the areas of healthcare and AI.
Caitlin Swift, Nurse Practitioner
Cofounder and Chief Clinical Officer
Caitlin is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who brings both clinical expertise and operational leadership to Clara, having most recently been the GM & VP Clinical Operations at Circle Medical. At Circle Medical, she oversaw quality and clinical compliance while scaling operations to support nearly one million telehealth encounters annually with a network of 425 medical providers. Prior to Circle Medical, she was a primary care nurse practitioner at JumpstartMD.
Zeeshan Ahmed
Cofounder & Head of Design
Zee is a product designer and design leader with deep experience across multiple industries including ad-tech, ride-hailing, health-tech, and food delivery. He previously worked at Meta on the Instagram Retail Ads team, simplifying ad experiences across feeds and stories. Prior to that, he was a senior product designer at Circle Medical, where he led product strategy and design for the company’s clinical tools. Before that, he led the design team at Careem, shaping the product experience as it scaled to over 40 million users across the Middle East and leading to an acquisition by Uber.
Cuauhtli Padilla
Cofounder & CTO
Cuau is a technology leader with deep expertise in AI, machine learning, and hardware engineering. He founded Veloz, an agentic coding startup, and previously co-founded Sunu (YC S17), an award-winning assistive technology company that built sonar wristbands helping blind and visually impaired people navigate the world, earning recognition from MIT Technology Review. A two-time patent holder and veteran of YC and Techstars, Cuau brings a rare combination of software, hardware, and AI expertise to Clara’s engineering efforts.
Sarah Rhodes, Nurse Practitioner
Nurse Practitioner
Sarah is a nurse practitioner who brings hands-on clinical experience to Clara’s care team. She previously scaled clinical operations at Circadia Health, the world’s first FDA-cleared contactless patient monitoring system. Sarah’s frontline perspective ensures that Clara’s technology is built around what clinicians and patients actually need.
Ryan Cruz
Software Engineer
Ryan is a software engineer and builder with remarkable range, spanning robotics, cybersecurity, and molecular biology tools. He founded Genesis, Mexico’s largest university aerospace student team, and created GeneHacker, an open-source genetic engineering toolkit. His robotics work includes OpenDOG, a reinforcement-learning-trained quadruped robot with an accompanying research paper. A two-time national Best Software Award winner and champion of HackMex (Mexico’s largest cybersecurity competition), Ryan brings relentless curiosity and deep technical chops to Clara’s engineering team.
Alex Favvas
AI Engineering Intern
Alex is a student with a passion for Machine Learning. He started coding when he was 12, teaching himself Python. He built Quinn, an AI personal assistant, a full year before the launch of OpenClaw.