Jaden Schaefer

So he actually started the company in May of 2024, Lotus Health AI.

And essentially, he kind of just set this out.

It was like, hey, look, this is a free, always-on, it's like your primary care provider, but it's available 24-7 in 50 languages.

And this week, he just announced $35 million in a Series A. So the company is growing.

He's got some phenomenal investors.

The round was led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, of course, top-tier VC firm.

And that totals up to his past raise plus the Series A, about $41 million is his raise total for it.

Tons of people, I think, are already asking AI about their health.

And I think this was evidenced by the fact that OpenAI just came out with OpenAI help.

Anthropic is doing something similar.

And so I think Lotus is kind of looking to go a little bit further than just conversational advice.

What they're trying to do is actually be designed as...

something that can translate your chats into real clinical outcomes.

So you can go chat with it and it is gonna be able to give you a diagnosis and it's gonna be able to give you prescriptions, which is really crazy if you think about it.

The AI model will be able to prescribe you

It's gonna be able to do lab orders and refer you to specialists.

Now, I know there's probably a ton of, we'll talk about some of the compliance issues and like the craziness that goes into all of that.

But if you think for a minute, what the outcome of this would be, diagnosis, prescriptions, lab orders, referrals to specialists.

I mean, this is basically everything you need a primary care doctor for.

And so I think a lot of times, like I love the vision here because a lot of times when you talk about like, oh yeah, AI is like helping people