Rajeev Dharmapurikar

Co-founder & CEO
Higgs Boson Health
Durham, NC
Rajeev Dharmapurikar 1

30+

Years In Tech & Healthcare

3

Startups Initiated 

3,085

LinkedIn Followers

Rajeev’s Journey

Joined Bell Labs as a Software Engineer

1996

Joined inStream Solutions as Board Member and CIO.

2009

Co-founded Lucidity Direct as Co-Founder, CTO, and COO, building a physician staffing platform connecting physicians with medical practices.

2015

2004

Co-founded Vigilantmonitor.com and joined as Board Member, and COO, building an enterprise log management solution for archiving, analyzing, and reporting on log data.

2011

Co-founded AdviseStream and joined as Co-Founder, Board Member, COO, and CTO, building an end-to-end advising platform for pre-health and academic advising.

2017

Co-founded Higgs Boson Health as CEO, building AI-powered digital companions and patient navigation tools initially for surgical journeys.

About Higgs Boson Health

Founded - 2017 | Durham, NC | Stage -Seed / privately held

Highlight

Higgs Boson Health builds digital companions and AI agents for medtech, pharma, and biotech companies to support patients and streamline therapy journeys.

Problem

Patient journeys around surgeries, procedures, therapies, and interventions are complex. Patients need guidance, providers need workflow support, and life sciences teams need scalable ways to educate, follow up, and collect outcomes data without adding manual burden.

USP

HIggs Boson Health has shifted from surgical journey support into a broader life sciences platform with digital companions and AI agents. GrepBeat reported that Higgs Boson had onboarded nine medical device companies, including Medtronic and Edwards Lifesciences.Higgs Boson Health is a Duke University spinout, reflecting the strong research-to-company pipeline of the Research Triangle.

Key Milestones

2017

Founded in Durham, NC.

2022

Featured by GrepBeat as a Triangle Tweener company. Expanded beyond hospitals into medical device company use cases.

2025

Positioned around CareConvoy, digital companions, and AI agents for medtech, pharma, and biotech workflows.
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