Building the Agentic AI Platform for Hospitals

Bunkerhill Health recently raised $55M to help build a true state-of-the-art AI platform for hospitals. In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC's Ankit Gupta sat down with their co-founder & CEO Nishith Khandwala to discuss how their tools dramatically speed up hospital operations, the cold email that landed them Cleveland Clinic as their first customer, and a future where even the most complicated surgeries are managed end-to-end by agents. https://www.bunkerhillhealth.com Chapters: 00:00 — $55M Series B Announcement 00:52 — What Bunker Hill Health Does 03:50 — Why It Takes Two Years to Onboard One AI Tool 05:09 — The Platform: Knowledge, Reasoning, Action 07:12 — The Innovator's Burnout Problem 09:57 — How Bunker Hill Actually Solves This 13:01 — How Nish Got Into Healthcare AI 17:00 — His Dad's Heart Attack Changed Everything 19:32 — How LLMs Transformed the Opportunity 22:05 — Cold-Emailing Cleveland Clinic 25:18 — Finding the Right Abstraction 28:04 — How Different Are Hospitals From Each Other? 31:12 — LLMs, Tool Use, and Hallucination 34:37 — Measuring Against the Standard of Care 39:27 — Building a Team of 21 43:30 — The Turkey Bone Patient Journey Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

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EPISODE INFO

Released: July 16, 2026
Duration: 47m
Channel: YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Bunkerhill Health recently raised $55M to help build a true state-of-the-art AI platform for hospitals. In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC's Ankit Gupta sat down with their co-founder & CEO Nishith Khandwala to discuss how their tools dramatically speed up hospital operations, the cold email that landed them Cleveland Clinic as their first customer, and a future where even the most complicated surgeries are managed end-to-end by agents. https://www.bunkerhillhealth.com Chapters: 00:00 — $55M Series B Announcement 00:52 — What Bunker Hill Health Does 03:50 — Why It Takes Two Years to Onboard One AI Tool 05:09 — The Platform: Knowledge, Reasoning, Action 07:12 — The Innovator's Burnout Problem 09:57 — How Bunker Hill Actually Solves This 13:01 — How Nish Got Into Healthcare AI 17:00 — His Dad's Heart Attack Changed Everything 19:32 — How LLMs Transformed the Opportunity 22:05 — Cold-Emailing Cleveland Clinic 25:18 — Finding the Right Abstraction 28:04 — How Different Are Hospitals From Each Other? 31:12 — LLMs, Tool Use, and Hallucination 34:37 — Measuring Against the Standard of Care 39:27 — Building a Team of 21 43:30 — The Turkey Bone Patient Journey Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

SPEAKERS

Ankit Gupta
host
Host on YC Root Access who interviews founders about building startups and products.
Nishith Khandwala
guest
Founder at Bunker Hill Health building an agentic AI platform for hospitals.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Ankit Gupta and Nishith Khandwala, Building the Agentic AI Platform for Hospitals explores bunker Hill builds agentic AI platform to speed hospital iteration Bunker Hill Health announced a $55M Series B led by Khosla Ventures to build an agentic AI platform for health systems rather than isolated point solutions.

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