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Locata

1 open
4+ employees

AI Referral Automation for Primary Care Clinics

YC S25

About the Company

We're building the operational layer for healthcare referrals.

Transitions in care are where most patients fall through the cracks, and navigating referrals is a large reason why. Today, getting a patient from primary care to a specialist is still largely manual. Staff fax forms, log into insurance portals, chase down missing information, and spend hours tracking status updates. It’s slow, error-prone, and one of the biggest bottlenecks in patient care.

Locata automates the full referral lifecycle: extracting data from EMRs, submitting to insurance portals, tracking authorizations, handling patient communications, and retrieving consult reports. We ensure patients receive timely care and give providers full visibility into each patient’s journey.

Founders

Joshua Chang
Joshua Chang

Joshua is the Co-Founder of Locata. He graduated Stanford with a BS & MS in Computer Science, specializing in AI. Previously he was a software engineer at Google, developing AI products that served over 1 billion users.

Alejandro Salinas
Alejandro Salinas

Alejandro is the Co-Founder of Locata. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University where he conducted AI research at Stanford Medicine. A former pre-med, Alejandro spent multiple summers shadowing doctors domestically and internationally. He has deep experience building AI products. As a Senior Software Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, he led development of several AI features for wearable products. He also authored an AI patent.

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