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Opkit

Summer 2021 · Inactive

AI phone calls for the US healthcare industry

Location: New York, US

Founded: 2021

About

Opkit uses AI to automate routine phone calls for medical practices, telehealth companies, and other leading healthcare provider organizations. Opkit's AI agent is capable of executing a wide-range of non-clinical phone call tasks, including Verification of Benefits, patient intake, and appointment scheduling, without human intervention. Opkit is HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 certified.

Founders

  • Sherwood CallawayCo-founder/CEO

    Sherwood Callaway is an engineering leader and post-exit startup founder. Currently, he is the first engineering manager at 11x, where he leads development on Alice, the AI SDR. Previously, Sherwood co-founded Opkit, a healthcare SaaS company that launched five products, including one of the first-ever AI phone calling services, before being acquired by 11x in 2024. At Brex, he was the second infrastructure engineer, where he built the systems that supported Brex during hypergrowth.

  • Justin KoFounder

    Former early employee at Brex on Growth, Card, and Cash engineering teams. Before that, co-founder of SpeakGenius, an English learning tool. Studied entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California.