Sharing the same dorm room for five years, three friends discovered their entrepreneurial spirit at RC and founded a marketing agency together. This unique bond of living and working together created a solid foundation of trust. It was only natural that they translated this experience into an actual business, Patientdesk.
“The idea for Patientdesk was born out of a real-world friction we experienced. Our initial marketing agency evolved into a specialized dental marketing firm. We realized that while we were successfully generating leads for dental practices, the clinics weren’t calling them back, leading to zero conversions. To solve this, we built AI Receptionists to call our own leads. Upon expanding to the US market, we identified an even bigger bottleneck: insurance verification. This led us to pivot and develop our AI Insurance Coordinator product to automate this complex administrative burden.”
Soon their budding business caught the interest of investors, through the powers of networking and performance: “A close friend who was interning at E2VC was impressed by our team’s execution and introduced us to the fund’s General Partner, who decided to invest. Shortly after, we reached a major milestone: Y Combinator accepted us into the Winter 2026 batch. Being part of YC was a game-changer; it validated our vision on a global scale and made the rest of our fundraising round significantly smoother.”
The trio has advice for RC students with the entrepreneurial spirit: “Persistence is key. We spent an entire year stuck at $1k MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue), which was a very difficult and demotivating period. However, we didn’t give up. The most important trait is the ability to “stick to it.” Success often lies just beyond the point where most people decide to quit.”
The trio was quite excited to learn about the RC Entrepreneurs Bond, which is led by Hüseyin Tığlı RA 71 to foster a growing community of RC entrepreneurial minds committed to impact by giving back not only financially, but also through their time, network, creativity and passion: “Given our journey from the RC dorms to Y Combinator and the US tech scene, we would love to join the community, share our experiences with AI, and contribute to the growth of fellow RC innovators.”
