Jaden Schaefer

This was kind of his vision.

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

And essentially, he kind of just set this out and 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 like his past raise plus the Series A, about $41 million, so he's raised 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...

you know, something that can translate your chats into real clinical outcomes.

So you can go chat with it and it is going to be able to give you a diagnosis and it's going to be able to give you like prescriptions, which is really crazy if you think about it, like the AI model will be able to prescribe you.

It's going to 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 in like

the craziness that goes into all of that but if you think for a minute you know what this would what 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 it's like yeah it could be like informational but then you still have to go tell it call a doctor like i my wife and i have done many times

Call a doctor, explain everything that ChatGPT said.

They're like, okay, you're probably right.

And they move you along.