Rishad Usmani, MD

Founder at Primary AI

📍 Canada🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Dec 2025
AI hears words. Amplifier hears the rest. Sona-2 is a voice biomarker foundation model. One model, trained on 2.4 million speakers and 14,000 physician-labeled conditions, returning 75+ indicators from any audio stream in 40+ languages. Use it as it is, pick one of eight named models, or train a custom classifier on your own population. It runs alongside the voice stack you already have. Screening signals, not diagnoses.
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Dec 2025
At Meru Health, our mission is deeply personal. Founded in 2016 after losing loved ones to mental health challenges, our founders witnessed firsthand the significant gaps in access to effective care that drives long-lasting results. Their experiences highlighted a crucial truth: mental health issues are often intertwined with physical health. The impact of nutrition, sleep, and breathing on mood and physical well being—and vice versa—is well documented, yet many mental health services continue to overlook this vital connection. Traditional talk therapy and psychiatric treatments alone aren’t sufficient for most people. That’s why our digital 12-week program is proven to treat mild to severe symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, burnout and more. Addressing the mind and body, it includes scheduled video calls and unlimited chatting with a therapist plus on-demand wellness practices, heart rate variability (HRV) therapy and anonymous community support—all from an easy-to-use app. The result? 2X better outcomes than traditional therapy. This is why we’re dedicated to creating a new standard in mental health care.
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Aug 2025
From the conversations you start to the products you use, were committed to making the uncomfortable, comfortable. Lets transform the way we experience menstrual and sexual health.
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Aug 2023
We retrieve patient records from across the U.S. and generate automated summaries - giving clinicians deeper insights while easing documentation burden. Try free for 15 days: https://app.abstractive.ai/sign-up
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Aug 2023
Inherent Biosciences is pioneering epigenetic medicine for complex diseases. Gene dysregulation, a hallmark of complex disease, has been difficult to detect and treat, until now... Our epigenetic platform detects dysregulation across multiple genes and related pathways. Were pioneering a new category of diagnostics and therapeutics that leverage epigenetics, biologys inherent mechanism for gene regulation, to radically transform how we diagnose and treat complex diseases like infertility, autoimmune disease, autism, and other complex diseases. Our first products help patients suffering from infertility. See our first product at: pathfertility.com
Board Member
Jan 2023
HaloHealth is a Canadian physician angel investment group composed of entrepreneurial physician investor-advisors, VC funds, family office, and ecosystem health tech investors that are interested in healthtech companies that are building the future of healthcare. To date, HaloHealth has invested in 45 healthcare ventures with 4 exits.
Angel Investor
Oct 2022
At SOAP Health, we are committed to providing innovative and effective solutions that make a real difference in the lives of patients and healthcare providers. We believe that our applications have the potential to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered, and we are proud to be at the forefront of this important work.
Angel Investor
Aug 2022
We make Specs, the worlds first productivity boosting smart glasses!
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
Vena Medical is providing physicians with the worlds smallest camera capable of going inside veins and arteries to help them treat stroke
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2026
Founder
Jul 2026
Primary AI is a clinical answer engine for licensed physicians and clinicians. Ask a clinical question and get a cited answer grounded in guidelines and landmark trials — including Canadian and US sources. Built for real clinical workflows between patients. Free for licensed clinicians at primaryai.world.
2025
Investor
Dec 2025
AI hears words. Amplifier hears the rest. Sona-2 is a voice biomarker foundation model. One model, trained on 2.4 million speakers and 14,000 physician-labeled conditions, returning 75+ indicators from any audio stream in 40+ languages. Use it as it is, pick one of eight named models, or train a custom classifier on your own population. It runs alongside the voice stack you already have. Screening signals, not diagnoses.
Investor
Dec 2025
At Meru Health, our mission is deeply personal. Founded in 2016 after losing loved ones to mental health challenges, our founders witnessed firsthand the significant gaps in access to effective care that drives long-lasting results. Their experiences highlighted a crucial truth: mental health issues are often intertwined with physical health. The impact of nutrition, sleep, and breathing on mood and physical well being—and vice versa—is well documented, yet many mental health services continue to overlook this vital connection. Traditional talk therapy and psychiatric treatments alone aren’t sufficient for most people. That’s why our digital 12-week program is proven to treat mild to severe symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, burnout and more. Addressing the mind and body, it includes scheduled video calls and unlimited chatting with a therapist plus on-demand wellness practices, heart rate variability (HRV) therapy and anonymous community support—all from an easy-to-use app. The result? 2X better outcomes than traditional therapy. This is why we’re dedicated to creating a new standard in mental health care.
Investor
Aug 2025
From the conversations you start to the products you use, were committed to making the uncomfortable, comfortable. Lets transform the way we experience menstrual and sexual health.
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