AI agents to run primary healthcare operations
HQ: Sydney, NSW, Australia | Founded: 2024 | Employees: 10 | Stage: Seed (Y Combinator S26) | Website: https://caregp.com.au/
Care GP builds AI agents that run operations for primary healthcare clinics. Rather than attempting clinical decisions, the company targets the administrative layer of a general practice — the paperwork and workflow that consumes staff time and limits how many patients a clinic can serve. Founded in 2024 and based in Sydney, Australia, with 10 employees. Founder and chief executive Melvin Chen previously co-founded Avigo and StarLake Group and held private equity roles at Terra Firma, Samena Capital and Goldman Sachs. He graduated valedictorian with an engineering triple major in Materials, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Finance and Venture Capital, was born in China and raised in the United Kingdom. Y Combinator's primary partner was Tyler Bosmeny.
Care GP runs a narrow, sensible bet: primary care clinics are drowning in admin, and the work that breaks them — scheduling, recalls, billing paperwork, following up with patients — is exactly the kind of structured, high-volume task AI agents handle well today. Rather than touching clinical decisions, it sells agents for the operational layer. Being based in Australia is a deliberate advantage: single-payer health systems have fewer, more concentrated buyers and clearer savings, so trials turn into contracts faster than in the fragmented US market. The risks are the usual healthcare-software ones — entrenched practice-management vendors, slow procurement, and clinics that differ so much that setting up each site eats profit.
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