Leap Orbit isn’t just another health tech company—it’s a company built on curiosity, problem-solving, and a relentless drive to make healthcare better.
When Mrinal Bhasker and David Finney founded Leap Orbit in 2016, they weren’t looking to build just another healthcare tech company. They wanted to create something different—an innovation engine that tackled some of healthcare’s biggest challenges in a way that was both practical and transformative. We sat down with them to talk about Leap Orbit’s origins, their approach to problem-solving, and why they believe running toward complexity is the only way to make real change in healthcare.
David: The short version? We were both at a transition point in our careers—Mrinal had just sold his company, and I was newly home from serving in the Peace Corps in Africa. After working together for five years, we stayed friends even as our lives went in different directions. In 2016, we started talking about what it would look like to build something of our own.
Mrinal: We weren’t interested in starting a company just for the sake of it. The real questions we kept coming back to were:
If we’re going to do this, what kind of company do we want to build? What would our values be? What would success look like beyond just revenue?
David: We landed on this idea of Leap Orbit as an innovation engine. A lot of companies set out to build a product first, and then they go looking for a problem to solve. We wanted to flip that. Instead of trying to dream up something in isolation, we would partner directly with the people working in the trenches with health data, understand their pain points, and develop solutions that had real-world traction.
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Mrinal: And that’s exactly what we did. We started with consulting, which gave us insight into the biggest challenges in healthcare. From there, we developed products that solved problems we saw firsthand. Every product we’ve built—Convergent, RxGov, CareFinDr—came directly from a real-world need that we saw up close.
Mrinal: It comes from a quote by Dhirubhai Ambani, a self-made entrepreneur from India. The idea is that no matter where you are, you should master that place, build up energy, and then jump into a higher orbit—then do it again and again. That concept really resonated with us.
David: Yeah, we liked the idea of constant growth, pushing into new challenges, and never staying stagnant. It’s not just how we operate personally, how we run the company—it’s how we help our customers, too. We want to help them “leap” into a better place with their data and operations.
No matter where you are. Just work there. Master that place or situation. Accumulate some energy and jump into another orbit, stay there for some time and control it and master it. - Dhirubhai Ambani
David: Oh, where do we start? (laughs)
Mrinal: One of the biggest is provider data management. Health plans are required to keep their provider directories up to date, but that’s easier said than done. Doctors move, retire, change affiliations—it’s a constantly shifting landscape. And when that data is wrong, it affects everything from regulatory compliance to patient access to care. We designed the Convergent platform and its ecosystem of apps to tackle this problem head-on, connecting automation and AI to existing systems and processes health plans already have in place.
David: Another huge challenge is the opioid crisis. States have prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), but they’re often outdated, hard to use, and not as effective as they could be. We built RxGov to modernize how states track prescriptions—not just controlled substances, but all medications—so they can spot patterns, reduce fraud, and help providers prescribe responsibly without bias.
Mrinal: That’s the whole point! A lot of companies try to sidestep the hardest problems in healthcare because they’re, well … hard. But we think that’s exactly where we should be focusing. If something is complex, messy, and has been broken for a long time, that’s a sign that it needs serious innovation.
David: Right. If you’re going to work in health tech, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves. The problems are too big, and the stakes are too high, to settle for incremental fixes.
David: At the end of the day, we’re not just writing software. We’re aiming for public health impact. We’re building tools that impact real people. If a health plan can’t find the right specialist to refer their patient to, that’s a problem. If a state can’t identify and intervene in dangerous prescribing trends, that’s a problem. Our work helps solve those problems.
Mrinal: And we also believe in giving back outside of the products we build. Whether it’s volunteering with Meals on Wheels, creating a company culture that values work-life balance, or simply working with organizations that are trying to make healthcare better, we want Leap Orbit to be a force for good.
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David: More innovation, more solving real-world problems. The beautiful thing about healthcare is that there’s no shortage of challenges to tackle.
Mrinal: And we’ll keep running toward them. That’s what we do.
Leap Orbit isn’t just another health tech company—it’s a company built on curiosity, problem-solving, and a relentless drive to make healthcare better. From modernizing provider data to tackling the opioid crisis, Mrinal and David have built a business that doesn’t shy away from the hard stuff. Instead, they see those challenges as opportunities to make a real impact.
If you’re facing a health data challenge and need a team that’s willing to take it on, Leap Orbit is ready to help. Send us a message.