Translucent

Backed byLocalGlobe
Total raised$44.7M
StageSeed
Hiring pace16 roles / 90d
Founded2024
Team size1-10
HQNew York, New York
IndustriesHealthTech

About Translucent

Translucent is an agentic AI platform purpose-built for healthcare finance, providing AI agents that operate continuously to support finance teams, departments, and service lines across health systems managing billions in combined revenue. The platform enables healthcare finance organizations to move beyond spreadsheets and legacy disconnected tools by delivering real-time visibility into financial performance across service lines, providers, and payers. Led by a former YC founder and CTO, Translucent maintains a deliberately small, senior engineering team drawn from top programs, operating with a flat, democratic structure and documentation-driven culture that emphasizes RFC-style decision-making. The company's development approach combines agentic AI capabilities with strong human judgment, ensuring that automation enhances rather than replaces expert financial analysis.

Open positions · 19

Company at a glance

Location
New York, United States
Investors
Chalfen Ventures ·LocalGlobe
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Founders & Leadership

MJ

Max Jones

Co-Founder @ Translucent

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CT

Cam Turner

I design behavior…for users & agents | 6x Acq. ( ex. AMZN ) Complex can feel “Consumer” with real design.

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JO

Jack O'Hara

Building the Financial Nervous System of Healthcare

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AA

Adam Albrecht

Head of Insights @ Translucent | Health Econ + Health Finance

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AM

Anca Marinescu

Product @ Translucent | Building Agentic AI for Healthcare

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering45%
  • Product & Design23%
  • Leadership9%
  • Operations9%
  • Other9%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Cornell University
  2. 2.Columbia University
  3. 3.San Diego State University
  4. 4.Florida International University
  5. 5.Rutgers University

Team Worked At

  • Flatiron Health
  • Deloitte
  • Google
  • Palantir Technologies
  • Goldman Sachs

Team Composition

17 people
  • Engineering9
  • Entrepreneurship2 senior2
  • Product Management1 senior2
  • Administrative1
  • Arts and Design1 senior1
  • Marketing1 senior1
  • Research1 senior1

Culture & values

Small, senior engineering team deliberately kept that size

Flat, democratic structure

Documentation-driven culture

RFC-style workflows

Decisions made by soliciting input rather than top-down

Team drawn from strong engineering programs

Everyone is inventing this as they go

Work suits people comfortable with rapid change

Role expected to look different in six months as company and space evolve

Cross-functional partnership with value team

Direct collaboration with customers

Funding History

Cumulative Funding

Life at Translucent

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