Michael Silver is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kaizen, an artificial intelligence company helping some of the nation's largest healthcare providers automate complex administrative operations, including revenue cycle management, prior authorizations, and credentialing. Kaizen has raised $8.5 million in seed funding led by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale's 8VC, with participation from Y Combinator, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, and Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean.
Michael has spent more than a decade working in artificial intelligence and computer science, including six years conducting research at MIT's renowned Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Working under AI pioneer Boris Katz, his research focused on teaching computers to understand human language and answer questions, foundational technologies behind modern AI assistants like Siri and ChatGPT.
Michael spent the early part of his career building and scaling venture-backed technology startups, serving in founding engineering and infrastructure leadership roles at companies backed by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, including one that reached a $700 million valuation and another that was subsequently acquired. He also worked on large-scale computing systems at Meta, Apple, and SingleStore.
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