Building @BabaHQ

NYC
Joined February 2014
Today, @BabaHQ raised a $40M Series A. We give each Medicare member and their family a dedicated team of advocates and behavioral health experts to keep every part of their care moving forward. In a world obsessed with AI personal assistants, it’s never been more important to have expert humans in the loop to go the last mile, particularly in healthcare.
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Went deep w @jordihays and @johncoogan on why we prioritized humans-in-the-loop instead of another AI personal assistant. We spent months measuring where AI fails on care coordination tasks, and turned our results into a benchmark at callbaba.com/bench. Lots more RL work ahead. If you’re an engineer and this sounds interesting, shoot me a note at [email protected].
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General Catalyst has been the most steadfast partner to Baba. Grateful for them backing us from day 1 and always doubling down.
.@BabaHQ is modernizing the last mile of healthcare for people on Medicare. Each person gets a dedicated advocate: a nurse, social worker, or benefits specialist equipped with AI. They book appointments, chase down benefits, and stay by each person’s side until they get the care they need. We’re proud to be deepening our partnership by doubling down in Baba’s $40M Series A. Watch @vedantsuri in conversation with @_ConnorSweeney. Chapters 00:00 — Meet Baba 02:03 — Cloning Nana’s Voice 05:19 — From Family Crisis to Company 10:58 — “They Saved My Christmas” 13:45 — Everything Is Downstream of the Team 18:05 — Building a Lifeline That Lasts 28:05 — Earning Conviction in a Week
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There is still a lot to do: we’ve served fewer than 1% of the 70 million Americans on Medicare. Baba doesn't lack capital or customer demand. Our ability to seize this opportunity is now limited by the capacity of our team. If you’re an exceptional engineer or operator in New York, come build with us: callbaba.com/join.
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Our Series A was led by @FirstMarkCap, with @CVSHealth, @valtruis, @generalcatalyst, @geniusventures and @GroundUpVC investing alongside them.
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Super proud of the team on this - our first work towards agentic care coordination, informed by our team of human clinicians.
Everyone’s chatbot can book a doctor’s appointment. The real test is whether you can earn the trust of a Spanish-speaking diabetic woman, walk her through a Medicaid application while finding her secure housing, and coach her into choosing a 12oz (instead of 16oz) soda along the way. Today we’re sharing BabaBench, a benchmark measuring how frontier models perform the real work of healthcare coordination. Our synthetic worlds are built from annotations by Baba’s in-house team of hundreds of expert doctors, therapists, nurses, and social workers. Turns out, AI alone isn’t ready to replace human care coordination.
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So excited that @franceszhao_ is joining Baba this winter! She’s from Waterloo & organizes Hack the North and is one of the highest slope people I’ve met!
very excited to be joining @BabaHQ as a design intern in NYC this winter !! 🗽🍎 really believe in what they’re building + their mission to make healthcare easier and more accessible for people. so grateful to @_ConnorSweeney & the Baba team for taking a bet on me ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و (p.s. lmk if you're in NYC this winter :-D)
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If we all end up serfs in frontier lab fiefdoms, I hope to have earned the right to live in rainmaker’s
Rainmaker has raised $100M to become the world’s best lab for weather modification and atmospheric science. Thank you @noavctech @upfrontvc @DCVC @lowercarbon @DreamVenturesVC and other visionary partners. We are aggressively hiring and scaling our research org to create a flywheel of atmospheric data collection, synthesis, understanding, and intervention. We will solve the weather and we will set the stage for the terraformation of Earth. More in my essay below.
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Some might say we're "Ramp"-ing up our design talent with Alan joining the team. So excited to work together.
BREAKING: Alan Li is joining @babahq as a founding designer
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Approaching the top!
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Connor Sweeney retweeted
Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations. We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data. In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall. Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months. We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need. Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim. Rainmaker Century. rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
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Excited to see this live. Aidan is stealthily building the next team as talent dense as Interaction
A billion people produce the most valuable dataset in the world every day – and delete it every night. We’re recording it. Introducing @AttentionInc
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Never bet against joswald
Introducing Singularity, a defense company focused on protecting people. I'm incredible proud of this team and mission.
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Connor Sweeney retweeted
Today we placed posters around the country telling the story of what it means to Become a Rainmaker. Modifying the weather requires frontier research. Meteorology, physics, machine learning, solid state radar and optics systems, we are hiring for across all these disciplines But, no amount of novel hardware or hours spent in the lab can actually modify the weather unless our systems are tested and deployed by humans in the field Until teams of gritty, relentless, disciplined mountaineers deploy our tech in remote locations during freezing snowstorms—it’s all just theory. And Rainmaker is in the business of contacting reality. So we are hiring teams of Forward Operating Specialists to bring theory into practice again this coming winter. In the hardest conditions imaginable, the FOS is responsible for using all the systems Rainmaker has built. They are Rainmakers in the truest sense of the word. They are the ones who work with nature. They are the ones who modify the weather. Their field work is the final factor determining whether our operations produce more water. It is a tough job in service of a beautiful mission. We are in search of gritty, soulful, dutiful people who want to work with nature, harness the elements, befriend the locals, and bring water where it’s needed most. Become a Rainmaker. More info in the replies.
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Markie is a force of nature. She was one of the first people I called when starting my company, and she gave the most actionable, effective advice around hiring I've still ever heard. Excited to see how big poetic becomes.
Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
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Connor Sweeney retweeted
We prevented a hospitalization this week. Meet Charlie:
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I’m thrilled to announce Baba, The American Healthcare Company. Baba connects older adults and their families with dedicated advocates who can coordinate their care. Our advocates are nurses and social workers who have worked at the front lines of the healthcare system for decades, and who can get folks the resources they need. This company was born of a family tragedy and has grown to support thousands of families across every corner of the country.
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Amazing work to @HendrixFarrell and his team on the launch video. He is exceptional, and his team made my family feel so comfortable while filming.
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