Catherine Zhao

COO, Pelica Health (Y Combinator) | Healthcare Operations | Ex-Google AI

Co-founder

Pelica· Spring 2025🇺🇸 United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @cthrnzh

2026Member· WBL (Women Business Leaders of the US Health Care Industry Foundation)

Founder · since 2025

Company

WBL (Women Business Leaders of the US Health Care Industry Foundation)

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current

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no public source

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Pelica

Transforming healthcare operations with AI agents

Spring 2025

Experience

Career

WBL (Women Business Leaders of the US Health Care Industry Foundation)
Member · 2026 – Present
2026
Pelica Health
Co-founder
Co-founder, COO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
San Francisco Free Clinic
Medical Assistant · 2024 – Present
2024
Stanford University School of Medicine
Researcher · 2014 – Present
2014
Google
Product Manager · 2024 – 2025
2024
Google
Associate Product Manager · 2022 – 2025
2022
Google
Software Engineer · Mountain View, CA · 2020 – 2022
2020
Google
Software Engineer Intern · Mountain View, California · 2019
2019
DALI Lab
Product Designer · Hanover, NH · 2018 – 2019
2018
Kidron Corporate Advisors
Investment Banking Analyst Intern · Greater New York City Area · 2019
2019
LocalAventura
Business Development Intern · 2017
2017
Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc
Caricature Artist at California's Great America · Santa Clara, California · 2016
2016

Bio

Building Pelica. Prev Google APM & SWE (building YouTube, ChromeOS, image & video GenAI infra, enterprise AI agents). Always volunteering in healthcare (clinical research, memory care, medical assistant at a free clinic). And the first job I ever got paid to do was a caricature artist at an amusement park!