Deepika Bodapati

Deepika Bodapati is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Commure, the AI-powered healthcare platform formed by the 2023 merger of Athelas (which she co-founded in 2016 with Tanay Tandon) and Commure. She holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California and conducted research at Stanford's Molecular Imaging Lab and NASA Ames before founding Athelas. She is best known for her enterprise sales and business development acumen, credited with driving early healthcare partnerships and expanding the company's scope from oncology diagnostics into revenue cycle management and clinical workflow automation; Commure now processes over $25 billion in annual healthcare claims and serves more than 500 organizations. She was named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 list.