Dieta Health - Acquired by Cylinder Health

It was a privilege to join Bill Snyder (CEO/Founder of Cylinder) on the Scope Forward Podcast and share the story of Dieta's acquisition and talk about the future of digestive health we're now building together. We discussed our founding stories, how we connected, and how Dieta's AI integrated into Cylinder's virtual care platform accelerates our path to a more personalized, patient-centered standard in GI care. I'm honored to be working with Bill at Cylinder and continuing to pursue this personal mission! Thanks Praveen Suthrum for having us on and for the awesome work you do to build community around the GI innovation community. Check out our conversation below! (Spotify and Apple podcast links in comments). https://lnkd.in/gEiX_8kD

My friends - thank you for your support on an incredible journey building Dieta Health - Acquired by Cylinder Health. Today, I’m proud to share that Dieta has been acquired by the leading virtual GI care provider, Cylinder 🎉 I founded Dieta years ago because I experienced firsthand frustration with a broken GI care system - one that lacks data and personalization, dismisses patients, and leaves the burden of treatment management on the patients. At my job at Uber, everyone was obsessed with data, using machine learning to personalize experiences, and being customer-centric. What if visiting a GI clinic could be a little more like Uber? I decided to try to make that happen. Dieta built the world’s first clinically-validated stool imaging AI model, making digestive outcomes measurement objective and more accurate than the traditional standard of patient-reported outcomes. We worked with the world’s top GI researchers at Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, and the VA to publish 4 peer-reviewed clinical trials about our innovative AI. We launched partnerships with some of the biggest payers, employers, pharma companies, and medical centers. Our app was used by over 25,000 patients and collected half a million stool images from a wide array of diagnoses and clinical contexts. I’m incredibly proud of everything we achieved with a small but mighty team. Cylinder Health is the perfect home for Dieta’s technology, and there is no better place for us to continue our mission of using AI to improve digestive health. I met CEO Bill Snyder five years ago when Dieta was just starting out, and could immediately tell he was going to lead a revolution in GI. Since then, I’ve watched him and the Cylinder team secure major partnerships, validate their superior care model, and deliver care to 100,000 patients in such a short time. It became clear to me that Cylinder is the fastest growing, most innovative company in the GI space. Thank you for giving us this opportunity and welcoming us into your exceptional team Bill, Hau Liu, MD, MBA, MPH, Karen Luk, Daniel Anolik, and Brad Rouse. Entrepreneurship is hard. Many times I wondered why I chose to punish myself with this job. Other times, when things miraculously worked, it honestly felt like I was living in a dream. It's a wild rollercoaster but it's been the most fulfilling and fun journey of my life, entirely because of the people below. I’m eternally grateful: Erez Cohen, Asaf Avidan Antonir, Mark Pimentel, Ali Rezaie MD, MSc, FRCPC, Matt Miller, PhD, Tom Williams, Konstantin Mehl, Manuel T., Michael Stoppelman, Alex Oppenheimer, Kevin Johnson, Josh Stein, Omar Perez, Samantha Shobash, Jason Bellet, Rajeev Malik, Rhett Woods, Ken Goldberg, Maria Gonzalez-Blanch, Raymond Chan, Taylor Jones, Michael Donaldson, Cveta Manassieva (BSc, MBA), Theresa McArtin, Addison Lynch, Sunny Lo, Jamie Buck Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️💩