Mark Pothen is Co-Founder and CEO of Beacon Health (YC W26), an AI agent platform automating administrative workflows for primary care practices. He grew up in his mother's primary care practice and spent 6 months embedded in a primary care practice owning operations and augmenting them with AI.

Mark studied Mechanical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology and previously served as head of product at several leading healthcare and AI startups including Axuall. He also held roles at FindOurView, Alza, and OculoMotor Technologies.

Mark spent the last 6 months embedded in a primary care practice to understand operational challenges firsthand before founding Beacon Health. His mother ran a primary care practice, giving him deep personal insight into the industry's pain points.

Beacon Health is a Y Combinator W26 company building AI agents that handle quality gap closures, risk adjustment, and patient outreach directly in EHR systems. The company went live with an independent physician association supporting 40,000 patients shortly after launch.

Beacon Health's AI agents automate value-based care workflows for primary care practices serving 200M Americans, helping physicians recapture bandwidth and deliver concierge-level patient experiences. The platform puts practice operations on autopilot, bringing joy back to primary care.