Company leader
Max Cohen
Co-founder and CEO
Sprinter Health
Max Cohen is co-founder and chief executive of Sprinter Health, a mobile healthcare provider in Menlo Park, California, that sends trained medical staff to patients' homes for screenings and tests. Cohen is trying to bring preventive care to the people who skip it, using the routing and product skills he learned building consumer technology at Google and Oculus.
From Skunk Works to Oculus
Cohen earned degrees in electrical engineering and physics at Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and at McKinsey & Company, then joined the product team at Google in Los Angeles, according to his HLTH speaker biography. At Oculus he was vice president of mobile, and after Facebook bought the company he oversaw mobile virtual reality, platform products, and media.
Wednesday Nights with Cameron Behar
Cohen was the first product manager of Cameron Behar, an engineer, at Google, and the two became friends; both later moved to Oculus. For about a year they met at Cohen's pool every Wednesday night, eating dinner his wife made and talking through ideas, Behar told Wellfound in 2022. Both came from medical families, and in the pandemic they settled on healthcare. "Why can I get a burrito delivered to my home, but I can't have my high blood pressure monitored or get my HbA1c test?" Behar recalled them asking.
Building Sprinter Health
They founded Sprinter Health in January 2021. Cohen told TechCrunch that the company built route-planning software so its staff spend their time with patients: "We need to make sure that our employees are spending as much time as possible serving patients rather than driving." By May 2025 Sprinter operated in 18 states and had raised $125 million, and revenue had grown six-fold over the year, he said.
In a 2024 HLTH podcast, Cohen described using small touches such as emojis to make medical tests less intimidating for patients, and pushed back on the hype around AI in direct care delivery, while describing how Sprinter uses it to communicate with patients.