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Mission & Vision
We’re on a mission to help health plans surface improper payments, supercharge workflows and strengthen compliance—with speed, precision, and confidence.
The U.S. healthcare system loses over $145 billion each year to fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA). But the damage goes deeper than dollars.
System bloat drives inflated bills, poorer care and exhausting red tape—while patients are left navigating a system that feels broken, impersonal and deeply unfair.
Despite billions spent on prevention, most tools remain fragmented, reactive and out of touch with how investigations actually happen.
The result? Special Investigative Units (SIU), Payment Integrity, and Compliance teams are overwhelmed—while leakage, noncompliance, and patient frustration compound.
We built Lucor to change that.
We’re creating explainable, adaptive AI that empowers the people on the front lines—helping investigators move faster, work smarter, and drive systemic change from the inside out.
Our long-term vision: To build the modern infrastructure for healthcare payment integrity. Starting with post-pay investigations, we’re scaling toward real-time Verification-as-a-Service—a future where every claim is validated, every rule enforced, and patients no longer bear the cost of systemic inefficiency.
Meet Our Team
Krystal Erickson
CEO & Co-Founder
Krystal is a health tech strategist and growth operator with 10+ years of experience driving innovation across Big Tech, digital health, and startups. She specializes in corporate strategy, GTM execution, business development, human-centered design, and marketing.
Her career spans leadership roles in Samsung’s Global Strategy and Health Tech Strategy teams, Oracle focused on life sciences companies, RxWare, and other VC-backed ventures, where she led strategy, product, and commercialization initiatives.
Driven by social impact and her faith, Krystal blends corporate execution with mission-driven entrepreneurship.
She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a B.S.: Product Design Engineering from Stanford University.
Matthew Ford
Healthcare AI/ML & Security Advisor | Former Principal Architect, AI/ML @ Protenus
Matt is a senior engineering leader and AI architect with 17+ years of experience building large-scale data, ML, and analytics systems across healthcare and industrial domains.
He currently leads a new data-focused team within Availity’s Payment Accuracy division, helping launch next-generation analytics products from the ground up.
Previously, at Protenus, he served as Principal Architect for AI/ML, rebuilding the company’s flagship analytics platform, cutting compute costs by six figures annually, and leading technical teams through major modernization efforts.
Jason Bono
CTO & Co-Founder
Jason is an AI scientist and fraud detection expert with 15+ years of experience designing and deploying advanced AI systems across government, defense, and healthcare.
He currently serves as a Principal AI Scientist and Strategic Advisor for AI Programs at ARPA-H, shaping high-impact initiatives to transform American healthcare. Previously, as Applied AI Manager at Deloitte, he led teams delivering fraud and risk intelligence systems for the IRS, CMS, DARPA, and U.S. Intelligence agencies—securing contracts exceeding $500M. Earlier in his career, Jason was a particle physicist at Fermilab and Rice University, where his research contributed to a Nature-recognized discovery and groundbreaking advances in machine learning for physics.
A former nuclear physicist turned AI leader, Jason specializes in adversarial detection, explainable AI, and large-scale pattern recognition, building AI that performs reliably in the world’s most complex, high-stakes environments.
Eric Leventhal
Payer GTM Strategy Advisor | Former Director of Strategy, Humana
Eric is a seasoned healthcare strategist and startup advisor with 10+ years of experience spanning payers, consulting, and digital health innovation.
He led digital strategy at Humana, driving a 38% increase in Medicare online sales and $30M in annual tech savings. Previously at Monitor Deloitte, he managed 20+ strategy projects for national health plans and helped launch two COVID diagnostics ventures that generated over $100M in revenue. He began his career at MassHealth, leading initiatives that saved the state $100M+ annually.
Eric now mentors digital health startups at MATTER, bringing a rare mix of payer insight, execution rigor, and startup agility to Lucor.
Our Values
Integrity Over Everything
We speak the truth, even when it’s inconvenient. We build trust through transparency, defensibility, and follow-through. We may be "awkwardly earnest," but we've got your back.
Speed with Substance
We move fast—but never at the expense of quality, security, or patient impact. Depth and velocity can (and must) coexist.
Solve What Matters
We take on complex, high-friction problems others avoid—because that’s where the real impact lives. We don’t chase hype. We solve what’s hard.
Explain Everything
No black-box AI. Every flag, every insight, every decision must be clear and defensible. We think deeply about the long-term effects of our actions.
Built With (Not For)
We co-develop with investigators, not in isolation. Real-world users shape everything we build.
Own the Outcome
We build to drive measurable outcomes. If it doesn’t move the needle, it doesn’t ship.
Built With Purpose
Lucor isn’t just about fixing broken systems—it’s about doing it the right way.
Our founding team is committed to giving back 50%+ of personal proceeds through the Founder's Pledge to support effective, high-impact causes.
We believe integrity, accountability, and long-term stewardship should be baked into how companies operate—not just what they build.