Dominik Moehrle

Dominik Moehrle
Occupation	Entrepreneur, software engineer
Known for	Co-founder of Dodo (YC S24)

Dominik Moehrle is a German-born entrepreneur and software engineer based in San Francisco, California. He is a co-founder of Dodo, a company that develops artificial intelligence employees for specialty medical clinics. Dodo was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.

Career

Prior to founding Dodo, Moehrle held several roles in technology and artificial intelligence. In 2020, he worked as an AI engineer at Dynam.AI and as a software engineer at 10x Founders. In 2021, he served as an AI consultant at Siemens. He also held the role of Chief Product Officer (CPO) at a company called Beam. From 2022 to 2023, Moehrle worked as a Product Lead at Stanford University School of Medicine.

While at Stanford University, Moehrle participated in the Accel Leadership Program (ALP) run by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), where he was an Accel Fellow. He also took part in Stanford's Lean Launchpad course, where he and co-founder Julius Hillebrand developed a project that led to their acceptance into Y Combinator.

Moehrle previously studied at the Technical University of Munich, where he served as a teaching assistant at the Chair for Applied Software Engineering in 2020. Research from the Y Combinator "Work at a Startup" page indicates he holds a degree from Stanford in engineering and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford. Before Dodo, he reportedly bootstrapped an investment tool to over $2 million in assets under management.

Moehrle co-founded Dodo in 2024 alongside Julius Hillebrand and Tim Reinhart. The company builds AI-powered autonomous agents designed to serve as virtual employees for specialty clinics, beginning with veterinary practices. Dodo's AI agents are fine-tuned on industry-specific knowledge and trained using protocols drawn directly from clinic employee manuals and playbooks. The system handles front-office and back-office tasks including answering phone calls, sending medical records, and refilling prescriptions — operating fully autonomously without human intervention, enabling clinics to provide around-the-clock service.

The company announced its launch and participation in the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch in August 2024. Dodo describes its product model as "labor-as-a-software," positioning its AI agents as replacements for routine administrative tasks traditionally performed by clinic staff. The company has partnered with clinics internationally and is based in San Francisco.