Meer Patel is Co-Founder and CEO of Prana (YC W26), an AI primary care doctor that provides continuous, proactive healthcare monitoring.

Meer holds a B.S. and M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and deferred Brown Medical School to build Prana. Previously, he was an AI Engineer at Onix, scaling GenAI solutions to hundreds of thousands of users for Fortune 500 clients.

Meer co-developed ICPredict, a deep learning model for non-invasive brain pressure monitoring, and engineered rapid saliva diagnostics that secured strategic R&D backing from Danaher. He previously co-founded EminenceAI, an AI medical education platform.

Prana is backed by Y Combinator (Winter 2026 batch) and has 4 employees based in San Francisco. The platform connects to over 50,000 healthcare organizations and offers physician consultations starting at $39.

Prana automates 90% of primary care grunt work and provides 24/7 physician care by monitoring medical records and wearables to detect clinical drift weeks before it becomes an emergency.