FOUNDER STORY

The gap was always there. We built the bridge.

About

Built from a frustration. Designed to close the gap.

CENTYENT was born from a specific frustration: watching clinicians make the right call and then watching patients walk away without acting on it.

Not because they didn’t understand. Not because they didn’t trust the recommendation. But because the system, from clinical complexity to financial friction, made it too hard to say yes.

The founders of CENTYENT have spent their careers at the frontier of healthcare AI, clinical decision support, and structured healthcare capital. They’ve watched the same pattern repeat: promising clinical tools that couldn’t be audited, couldn’t be trusted, and couldn’t be adopted at scale.

The problem was never ambition. It was the architecture. Tools built on probabilistic inference that couldn’t show their work. Platforms that generated recommendations but couldn’t explain them. AI that was impressive in demos and unreliable in practice.

CENTYENT was built from first principles.
Deterministic reasoning. A proprietary knowledge graph.
FDA-compliant from inception. Not because compliance is a box to check, but because clinical trust has to be earned, and earning it requires transparency.

WHY IT'S PERSONAL

This wasn't an abstract problem. It was something they lived.

Three founders. Three different experiences. One conviction that this has to change.

Ehsan's story

For Ehsan, CEO of CENTYENT, this wasn’t an abstract problem. It was something he lived.

He is an avid weightlifter, highly active, exceptionally healthy patient looking for proactive healthcare.

His traditional insurance denies coverage for advanced preventative screenings (CT angiogram/MRI) because he doesn't fit standard risk guidelines.

Ehsan seeks out a prominent longevity care provider to pay out-of-pocket.

The clinic experience is overwhelming and poorly explained. He is presented with pre-set "packages" with no clear scientific evidence or justification for how they apply to his specific biology.

Choosing only the relevant tests results in a 5-figure price tag. When asking for financial assistance or payment plans, he is dismissively told to "figure it out himself."

Ehsan Vaghefi

CEO & President

Eyad's perspective

Eyad, Founder & Chairman of CENTYENT, arrived at the same conclusion from a different direction , watching a family member face the consequences of a delayed diagnosis, and recognising that it wasn’t a one-off failure. It was the system working exactly as it was designed: reactively, not preventively.

Eyad Al Musa

Founder & Chairman

Joydeep's perspective

Similarly, Co-founder Joydeep Sarkar’s lived experiences – and challenges – within the healthcare innovation space has prompted him to pursue better more reliable solutions.

We can’t create more doctors overnight, but we can put the best available evidence, matched to each patient’s specific context, at every doctor’s fingertips — reliably, every time.

Joydeep Sarkar

Co-Founder

Three different experiences.

The same founding conviction: this has to change.

Our mission

CENTYENT’s mission is to standar dise preventative healthcare and make it affordable for everyday patients, not just those with the right insurance, the right referral, or the right postcode.

Because the gap between a clinician’s recommendation and a patient’s ability to act on it shouldn’t exist. Closing that gap is what CENTYENT was built to do.

The Team

The people are building the
operating system for Healthcare.

Click on any team member to learn more

Key Achievements

Successful repeat founder

Former CEO of Toku Inc. Acquired by Topcon Healthcare / KKR in 2025.

Experienced operator

Led a successful exit with $35M+ raised and a track record of recruiting top talent and driving execution.

Highly respected academic

authority

Former tenured associate professor (University of Auckland), 120+ publications, 6 US patents.

SaaMD expert

Secured multiple FDA clearances and breakthrough device designations.

Key Achievements

Industry Experience:

28 years as a technology and business leader

Seasoned Business Builder

Built a 50 million USD Business in Digital Health Solutions and Healthcare Consulting as Senior Partner at PwC

Executive Expertise

Held a COO position for PwC’s Healthcare Industries Practice

Key Achievements

Successful repeat founder

20+ years in biomedical research, AI and data science application in healthcare.

Seasoned Entrepreneur

Founder and former CAO of Holmusk*, scaling a global real-world data and analytics company focused in mental health.

Founder expertise

Raised $100M+ in structured capital and long history of successful commercialization

Key Achievements

Founder expertise

Founder and former CEO of Future Family, a leading healthcare services platform in fertility.

Time 100 Health

Capital-efficient leader with $35M+ total funding raised.

Over $1B+ raised in structured

capital

Dedicated financing capital in healthcare and related sectors.

Authority on fintech and

healthcare

Pioneer in healthcare and fintech with previous work in fintech (TSLA).

OUR VALUES

The principles the architecture was built on.

Transparency

Every decision should be explainable.

Evidence First

Recommendations must be grounded in evidence, not probability.

Access to Care

The right care should be actionable for every patient.