$8.5M Prototype — Cohesity EHR

Cohesity was an ambitious, ground-up vision for transforming how physician and surgical practices managed their businesses and delivered care. Designed as a secure web and mobile, multi-specialty platform, Cohesity unified the essential functions of a medical practice—including electronic health records, clinical documentation, scheduling, CRM, patient communications, billing, and a patient portal—into a single, cohesive solution rather than forcing practices to piece together disconnected systems. Working as part of the founding Cohesity team alongside the founder, product manager, and administrator, I helped shape the product vision and translate the concept into a compelling business plan and a proof-of-concept experience that demonstrated both the market opportunity and the platform's viability.

The resulting vision secured $8.5 million in local investment capital without relying on angel investors, validating the strength of the concept and the opportunity it represented. Ultimately, Cohesity was acquired by a major EHR company for a significant multiple of the original investment, providing a powerful testament to the product strategy, user-centered design, and business vision behind the platform.

Cohesity demonstrated how thoughtful product strategy and user-centered design could turn a complex healthcare challenge into a compelling, scalable business opportunity. By bringing clinical, administrative, financial, and patient-facing workflows into one cohesive experience, the platform established a strong foundation for growth—and ultimately proved its value through significant outside investment and acquisition by a leading EHR company.

Creating a successful start-up company, experiencing the victories and setbacks, and extremely long hours while convincing many local investors of our vision was invaluable to me as I moved toward running my own software company through some of the most difficult global financial times in history.