Tiko Bdoyan

Tiko Bdoyan
Occupation	Entrepreneur, software engineer
Known for	Co-founder and CTO of SimCare

Tiko Bdoyan, also known as Tigran Bdoyan, is an Armenian-American entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of SimCare, a company that develops artificial intelligence avatars to scale healthcare training. SimCare was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch.

Career

Bdoyan attended the University of Chicago, where he was a varsity wrestler and conducted machine learning research. He has described himself as having interests in politics and computer science, and participated in the ANCA (Armenian National Committee of America) Summer Academy program.

At the University of Chicago, Bdoyan co-founded Soma Lab, an educational technology venture, alongside Vrishank Saini. The project eventually evolved into SimCare, which the pair founded in 2024. Bdoyan serves as the company's CTO, overseeing its technical development.

SimCare provides an AI-powered platform for training clinical skills in healthcare and behavioral health. The company's core product consists of AI patient avatars that users can speak with to practice counseling, diagnostic, and clinical communication skills. The platform includes feedback systems and site placement tools designed to help trainees demonstrate competencies and find employment. SimCare's technology stack relies on large language models (LLMs), vision-language models, text-to-speech systems, and vision models to create realistic, medically accurate virtual patients.

The platform is used to train counselors, social workers, doctors, and nurses. According to the company's website, more than 15,000 students have used SimCare, and the platform offers over 500 AI avatars representing diverse patient scenarios. SimCare is based in San Francisco, California, and as of 2025 has approximately seven employees.

SimCare's AI simulations allow medical and behavioral health students to practice interactions such as delivering difficult news, discussing treatment plans, and navigating sensitive conversations. Students can also conduct virtual head-to-toe physical assessments and practice detecting abnormalities. The company states that its feedback systems are trusted by leading training programs in the United States.