User:Relspas/Joseph Sokol

Joseph Sokol is an American internet entrepreneur known for founding iCardio.ai and OlehPay. Currently iCardio.ai's CEO, Sokol leads research initiatives and strategic company development. Sokol is also known for contributions to the field of artificial intelligence in medical imaging, particularly echocardiography.

Biography
Sokol was born in Los Angeles, California in 1995. After spending a year studying in Machon Meir yeshiva in Israel, Sokol shortly thereafter dropped out of University to pursue entrepreneurship.

In 2016, Sokol founded OlehPay, a platform that serves as a digital alternative for traditional money transfer and currency exchange in Israel.

In 2019, Sokol founded iCardio.ai, a Los Angeles-based deep learning startup for heart ultrasound analysis. iCardio.ai is an Nvidia Inception Program member. Alongside the iCardio.ai team, Sokol co-authored a paper in the Journal of American Society of Echocardiography on the feasibility of applying machine learning for novel screening of aortic stenosis. In 2023, iCardio.ai was one of 12 startups accepted into the yearly cohort of Techstars' Health Care Accelerator.