Haley, our CEO, spent 7 years at Medtronic, and the rest of our team brings deep experience from top technology organizations: Meta, Microsoft, AI startups, law firms, and nonprofits. The Paxos Appeals team came together at Stanford from personal healthcare experiences and one very odd coincidence.

In 2021, Alex was denied by his health insurance company for a $40,000 medical procedure, and an anonymous Reddit user who also had previously overturned his own insurance denial helped Alex write his appeal. Alex won his appeal! Later, at Stanford, Alex met Haley, and they decided to start a venture to help patients navigate health insurance appeals, driven by Alex’s personal experience.

Soon, Alex and Haley discovered another Stanford student was working on a similar project. It turns out,that Stanford student was thesame anonymous Reddit userthat had helped Alex in 2021: Malcolm. They decided to join forces and have been working together on Paxos Appeals ever since.

The team won the Stanford Impact Founder Fellowship (given to 4 out of ~600 Stanford business school students per year), and Haley gave a talk at Stanford about their work helping patients.