Brandon Ballinger
FounderFounder at Empirical Health
New York, New York, United States
FoundedEmpirical Health Β· YC
About
Brandon Ballinger co-founded Empirical Health, which applies AI to preventive cardiology, and previously co-founded Cardiogram, a deep learning company focused on heart disease detection that was acquired. He has held senior technical roles at Google leading machine learning for speech recognition, served as Head of Risk Engineering at Brex, and contributed to the HealthCare.gov recovery effort.
Founder at Empirical HealthYC S23
Intro paths
Brandon went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator β the partner who ran Empirical Health's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Brandon can intro founders to Empirical Health's investors below.
Empirical Health's investors Β· 3
Co-founders at Empirical Health
Experience
- Empirical HealthCo-Foundercurrent2023 β presentNew York, NY
- BrexHead of Risk Engineering2020 β 2022New York, NY
- CardiogramCo-Founder2016 β 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- UCSF CardiologyData Science & Machine Learning2014 β 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- HealthCare.gov Rescue TeamBug Fixer2013 β 2014Columbia, MD
- SiftCo-Founder & CTO2011 β 2013San Francisco, CA
- GoogleStaff Software Engineer2006 β 2011San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
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Natural Language ProcessingData VisualizationDistributed SystemsLinux KernelFraud DetectionLarge Scale SystemsEntrepreneurshipData MiningMobile ApplicationsSpeech RecognitionStart-upsBig DataFrom Brandon's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Brandon Ballinger?
- Brandon Ballinger co-founded Empirical Health, which applies AI to preventive cardiology, and previously co-founded Cardiogram, a deep learning company focused on heart disease detection that was acquired. He has held senior technical roles at Google leading machine learning for speech recognition, served as Head of Risk Engineering at Brex, and contributed to the HealthCare.gov recovery effort.
- Where does Brandon Ballinger work?
- Brandon Ballinger is Founder of Empirical Health.
- What companies did Brandon Ballinger found?
- Brandon Ballinger founded Empirical Health.
- Where did Brandon Ballinger go to school?
- Brandon Ballinger studied at University of Washington (Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,773
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University of Washington mafia114
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Brex mafia34
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Empirical Health mafia2
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Same school
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Shared employers
Also worked at Empirical Health2
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Also worked at Sift7
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