Alex Pedersen
| Alex Pedersen | |
| Occupation | Software engineer, entrepreneur |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founder of Egress Health (Y Combinator Winter 2025) |
| Education | Harvard University (BS) |
Alex Pedersen is an American software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Egress Health, a startup that builds artificial intelligence agents to automate revenue cycle management for healthcare providers, beginning with dental offices. Egress Health was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.[1]
Career
Prior to founding Egress Health, Pedersen worked as a software engineer at Microsoft. He subsequently held a software engineering role at OfficeTogether, a workplace management platform that was acquired by Envoy.[1]
Pedersen co-founded Egress Health alongside Matthew Kiflu. The company, founded in 2022, develops AI-driven automation tools targeting the revenue cycle management process in healthcare. Revenue cycle management encompasses the administrative and financial processes involved in tracking patient care episodes from registration through final payment — a domain spanning much of the United States healthcare industry's administrative overhead.[2]
Egress Health's platform focuses initially on dental offices, a market characterized by a high concentration of independent and small-group practices that often lack dedicated billing staff. The platform automates workflows including insurance eligibility verification, claims scrubbing, payment posting, and denial management. According to the company, customers are able to reduce administrative headcount by one to two full-time employees and collect between five and fifteen percent more revenue per month as a result of implementing its tools. As of 2025, the platform had processed over 106,000 appointments.[2]
The company participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch. Egress Health has since been listed as acquired in Y Combinator's company directory, though details regarding the acquiring entity, transaction terms, and timing had not been publicly disclosed as of early 2026.Template:Cn Pedersen's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Egress Health". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Egress Health". 'Egress Health}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.