Arya Khokhar

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Winter 26 at Y Combinator

Cupertino, California, United States

Overview

Arya Khokhar is the Founder and CEO of Eos AI, a Y Combinator (W26) startup building an autonomous operating system for healthcare. A Caltech graduate in Math and Computer Science, he has a deep research background from Stanford and Caltech, focusing on making healthcare AI reliable by solving data infrastructure challenges.

Personality Overview

Imaginative

Relationship Oriented

Enthusiastic

They excel at seeing the bigger picture, and the long-term impact of their decisions.  They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are people oriented, friendly and like creating new connections.

Topics They Care About

AI in Healthcare
His company, Eos AI, is focused on building the data infrastructure layer to enable reliable and generalizable AI for clinical and research use.
Data Harmonization
A core part of his mission is to unify and standardize fragmented medical data from various sources to make it usable for advanced AI applications.
Computational Biology
His research has included using vision transformers to analyze histology images, and he was a top 100 national finisher in the USA Biology Olympiad.

Media Appearances

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Work History

10-2025
Winter 26 at Y Combinator
8-2025
Founder & CEO at Eos AI (YC W26)
6-2025 - 9-2025
Summer Fellow at Y Combinator
3-2025 - 12-2025
Researcher @ Li Lab at Stanford University
10-2024 - 12-2025
Researcher @ Anima Lab at Caltech

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS from Caltech
Education details unavailable from Homestead High School

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Exp : 3 Location : Cupertino, California, United States Job Level : Leadership Designation : Winter 26 at Y Combinator
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Insights For Selling To Arya

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Do some small talk, ask them how things are going on their side
  • Use phrases like ‘people will love’, ‘massive impact’ etc.
  • Invite them for a lunch or a drink/coffee

DONT's

  • Don’t push them to make a decision too fast, let them get comfortable first
  • Don’t be excessively objective, be a storyteller
  • Avoid cutting into their flow

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Arya is

  • Relationship and trust can be vital with them, sometimes more than anything else.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Arya

  • They are unlikely to say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Arya move?

  • They are not the fastest decision makers, their friendly approach can give false positive signals.
  • Can Arya take some risk or not?

  • They may take certain risks that they deem unlikely of personal repercussions.

You And Arya

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