Novoflow asked for $3M with five paying medical practices and one bold claim: competitors take 3 weeks to integrate with an electronic health record system, Novoflow takes 3 hours.

This is the deck two teenage founders from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch used to raise $3.1M, led by super angel Justin Hamilton with N1 Ventures, Multifaceted Capital and Standard Partners Fund.

It matters because it shows how far a strong founder story, real inbound demand and a clear roadmap can carry a company that is still very early.

You'll see what the deck gets right, which numbers an investor will question, and what Novoflow actually shipped in the months after the round.

Below is the full breakdown, slide by slide.

Inside you'll find:

The most convincing part of this deck isn't on a slide. It's the story behind the team slide.

Mathieu Rihet originally wanted to become a cardiothoracic surgeon, until a diagnosis of essential tremors closed that path. He went on to work as a medical interpreter, where he saw the operational chaos of clinics from the inside. Georges Casassovici, then a high-school senior about to start Carnegie Mellon and coding since he was eight, posted on LinkedIn looking for a non-technical co-founder. Rihet answered.

Both left school to join Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch, and their YC launch post explains the insight in one line: they had spent two years as French and Spanish medical interpreters, and saw how clinics struggled with calls and scheduling.

The team slide leans on institutions: Emory, Georgia Tech, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and Leica. It works as a credibility shortcut for founders without a long track record.

→ When you don't have years of experience, show proximity to the problem. Rihet didn't research clinics, he worked inside them.

Most decks open with a logo and a tagline. Novoflow's second slide opens with a comparison against the competition, in capital letters.

Then it lays out the problem. Every US provider has its own dataset and its own way to access it. The deck puts the cost of this inefficiency at $260B a year, and describes providers acting as human middlemen between systems.

The demand section is the strongest part of the slide: since launch, 4 to 7 clinics reach out every week asking to automate the coordination between patients and their records system.

The slide closes with a thesis: existing software won't be upgraded, because there's too much history, too many small vendors and too much proprietary technology.

What the deck never explains is how Novoflow gets integration down to hours. The answer came later, in the company's January 2026 launch post: a virtual employee that performs tasks at the interface level, just like clinic staff do. Instead of waiting for API access, the agent works on the screen of the existing system, which is why it can reach legacy software that was never designed for third-party integrations.

→ The deck's biggest claim is also its biggest unexplained claim. One sentence on how it works would have turned a boast into a moat.