SynthioLabs Makes Forbes’ "Most Promising YC Spring Startups" List

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Today, Forbes named SynthioLabs one of “The Most Promising Startups From the First-Ever Y Combinator Spring Batch”. Seeing our names stretched across those giant FORBES letters feels surreal—but it also validates a simple idea we’ve been chasing since day one:

Reimagine pharma customer engagement with Voice AI Medical Reps

Why the world needs Voice AI reps (right now)

Pharma still spends billions on field teams, yet 70 % of physicians—especially in community clinics—never hear from one. That leaves critical medical updates, dosing clarifications, and safety questions unanswered at the exact moment patients are in front of them.

• Cost barrier: Each traditional rep costs $200-$400 k/year.
• Bandwidth barrier: Even the best-run teams can only cover ~30 % of HCPs.
• Data barrier: Conversations disappear into notebooks instead of flowing back to headquarters.

LLMs and real-time speech tech finally change the economics. Our Voice AI Medical Reps talk like humans, stay 100 % compliant, and surface every clinical question in structured data—so brand teams see what matters and physicians get answers in seconds.

The “aha!” moment

Our CEO Supreet Deshpande spent years at McKinsey and ZS telling pharma which doctors to prioritize. It always felt like triage: choose a few, ignore the rest. When LLMs arrived, the question flipped from “Who should we visit?” to “Why not visit everyone—with AI?” And thus, SynthioLabs was born.

Together we know pharma inside-out and have shipped AI in enterprises at scale.

How YC leveled us up

YC’s biggest gift was relentless focus. Ten weeks of build → talk to users → build again sharpened our thesis:

1. Start with community HCPs—the long-tail physicians no one else reaches.
2. Make compliance invisible—voice agents must pass medical-legal review on day one.
3. Capture the questions—the gold is in the data, not just the answer.

YC didn’t just hand us playbooks—it plugged us into a tribe. Within weeks we had batch-mates swapping intros, stress-testing product ideas at 11 p.m., and celebrating every tiny win together. These founders have turned into lifelong friends and collaborators we’ll be rooting for long after Demo Day.

Where we’re headed

Our vision has stretched from “reach the 70%” to “be the engagement layer for every pharma touchpoint—sales, medical, patient support.” We want to close the gap between what physicians expect as consumers and what they actually get from pharma.

Thank you, Forbes & YC

Recognition is nice, but it’s only fuel. We’re still heads-down building the future of pharma customer engagement.

Curious to hear what an AI Medical Rep sounds like?

Drop us a line at founders@synthiolabs.com!

Onwards and Upwards,

Supreet, Raj & Sahitya