Team
Clinical credibility meets a 35-person engineering org and enterprise product vision.
Yogini Prajapati, MD
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Board-certified pediatrician and founder of Starlight Pediatrics, a direct primary care practice in Austin, TX. Dr. P left traditional medicine to build the practice she always wanted — one where she knows every patient by name, makes house calls for newborns, and texts parents at midnight when their kid has a fever. She currently runs her practice on Atlas.md and found it so lacking in practice management, communications, and growth tools that she commissioned an entirely separate platform — which became Starlight.MD. She's not just our CMO; she's our most demanding power user, testing every feature on real patients every single day.
MD — Pediatrics
Board Certified
DPC Founder
Starlight Pediatrics, Austin TX
Atlas.md Power User
Deepak Surana
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Product leader with deep experience in enterprise SaaS, AI platforms, and market intelligence. Currently CPO at Futurum Group (a Constellation Research company) where he leads the Futurum Intelligence Platform — an AI-powered decision intelligence tool used by Fortune 500 CIOs and CTOs. Built the entire Starlight.MD prototype as a single-page application managing a live DPC practice. Brings enterprise product rigor, investor relations experience, and AI-native product thinking to healthcare.
CPO — Futurum Group
Enterprise SaaS
AI Platforms
Product-Led Growth
Investor Relations
Erik Bethke
Co-Founder & CTO / CIO
Serial technology entrepreneur and CEO of Bike4Mind (B4M), a 35-person AI and engineering company. Decades of experience shipping consumer-facing products and building scalable platforms from zero to one. Erik brings an entire engineering organization to Starlight.MD — not just a CTO title, but a production-ready team with AI/ML, full-stack, and DevOps capabilities. B4M's existing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and AI content processing experience mean Starlight.MD can move from prototype to production-grade platform without the typical 6-month hiring ramp. Erik has final say on all technology architecture decisions and has proven his approach across multiple healthcare and AI ventures.
CEO — Bike4Mind (35-person team)
Serial Entrepreneur
AI/ML Platform Architecture
Full-Stack Engineering
DevOps & Infrastructure
Healthcare Tech Ventures
Why This Team
Clinical (Dr. P): A practicing DPC pediatrician who IS the user. She tests features on real patients every day and has the community trust that opens doors at every DPC conference in America.
Product & Business (Deepak, CPO): Built the entire working prototype. Enterprise product experience at scale. AI-native thinking. Investor relations experience from Futurum. Drives product vision, growth strategy, and fundraising.
Technology (Erik): Not just a CTO — a CEO of a 35-person engineering organization. Bike4Mind brings production-grade AI/ML, full-stack, and DevOps capacity from day one. No hiring ramp. No infrastructure buildout. We deploy the day we incorporate.
Advisory Board (Planned)
| Role | Profile | Why |
|---|---|---|
| DPC Policy Advisor | Physician leader in DPC legislative advocacy | Navigate state-level DPC regulations and employer DPC programs |
| Healthcare SaaS Advisor | Founder/exec from a scaled healthtech company | GTM playbook, enterprise sales, HIPAA compliance strategy |
| Pediatric DPC Network Lead | Physician running a multi-location pediatric DPC | Product validation, referrals, conference introductions |
Engineering & Key Hires (Year 1)
Unlike most pre-seed startups, we don't start at zero on engineering. Erik's Bike4Mind team (35 people, AI/ML + full-stack + DevOps) can allocate dedicated resources to Starlight.MD from day one. This collapses the typical 3-6 month hiring ramp and gives us production-grade infrastructure immediately.
| Role | When | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated B4M Engineers (2-3) | Month 1 | Bike4Mind allocation — cloud migration, HIPAA, core platform |
| Customer Success Lead | Month 6 | New hire — onboarding, retention, practice setup |
| Additional Engineers (as needed) | Month 6+ | New hires or B4M expansion — scaling, integrations, mobile |