Case studies Rondah
Founding-team build · AI · Healthcare
How Rondah built its core engineering team entirely from Pakistan.
From Techstars pre-seed to 300+ dental practices. Six engineers. Two and a half years. One partnership that's still going.
Relationship
2.5+ yrs, active
Engineers placed
6
Capital raised since
$3.5M
Sector
AI · Healthcare
Case studies Rondah
Founding-team build · AI · Healthcare
How Rondah built its core engineering team entirely from Pakistan.
From Techstars pre-seed to 300+ dental practices. Six engineers. Two and a half years. One partnership that's still going.
Relationship
2.5+ yrs, active
Engineers placed
6
Capital raised since
$3.5M
Sector
AI · Healthcare
Case studies Rondah
Founding-team build · AI · Healthcare
How Rondah built its core engineering team entirely from Pakistan.
From Techstars pre-seed to 300+ dental practices. Six engineers. Two and a half years. One partnership that's still going.
Relationship
2.5+ yrs, active
Engineers placed
6
Capital raised since
$3.5M
Sector
AI · Healthcare
01
About Rondah
Rondah builds AI receptionists for Dental Service Organizations — the PE-backed groups that operate hundreds of dental practices across North America. Their agents answer every patient call, schedule appointments, handle insurance queries, and update practice management systems in real time, around the clock.
The company was co-founded by Burhan Syed, Allan Svirsky, and Mohammed Mian — three longtime friends who grew up working in Allan's family dental practices. They watched the front-desk chaos firsthand: phones ringing nonstop, staff stretched thin, patients falling through the cracks. They built Rondah to fix it from the ground up.
Backed by
Techstars '24
2048 Ventures
Twelve Below
Today:
$3.5M raised
·
300+ practices
across the US and Canada.
01
About Rondah
Rondah builds AI receptionists for Dental Service Organizations — the PE-backed groups that operate hundreds of dental practices across North America. Their agents answer every patient call, schedule appointments, handle insurance queries, and update practice management systems in real time, around the clock.
The company was co-founded by Burhan Syed, Allan Svirsky, and Mohammed Mian — three longtime friends who grew up working in Allan's family dental practices. They watched the front-desk chaos firsthand: phones ringing nonstop, staff stretched thin, patients falling through the cracks. They built Rondah to fix it from the ground up.
Backed by
Techstars '24
2048 Ventures
Twelve Below
Today:
$3.5M raised
·
300+ practices
across the US and Canada.
01
About Rondah
Rondah builds AI receptionists for Dental Service Organizations — the PE-backed groups that operate hundreds of dental practices across North America. Their agents answer every patient call, schedule appointments, handle insurance queries, and update practice management systems in real time, around the clock.
The company was co-founded by Burhan Syed, Allan Svirsky, and Mohammed Mian — three longtime friends who grew up working in Allan's family dental practices. They watched the front-desk chaos firsthand: phones ringing nonstop, staff stretched thin, patients falling through the cracks. They built Rondah to fix it from the ground up.
Backed by
Techstars '24
2048 Ventures
Twelve Below
Today:
$3.5M raised
·
300+ practices
across the US and Canada.
02
The challenge
Their first engineering hire had to be exceptional. Not just good.
Rondah engaged Taraki shortly after closing their Techstars-backed pre-seed round. The company had three co-founders — all technical, all building at a pace that demanded more hands.
Their ask was specific. They didn't want a contractor or a typical offshore resource. They wanted someone who would function as a founding team member — sit in product calls and take complete ownership of the product.
"We weren't looking for someone to close tickets. We needed a builder who could sit in product conversations, push back when they saw something off, and treat what we're building as their own."
Burhan Syed — CEO, Rondah
Underneath the brief was an unspoken test. The founders wanted to know whether Pakistani talent could match what they would hire in San Francisco. The answer to that question would shape every decision they made about offshore hiring from that point forward.
02
The challenge
Their first engineering hire had to be exceptional. Not just good.
Rondah engaged Taraki shortly after closing their Techstars-backed pre-seed round. The company had three co-founders — all technical, all building at a pace that demanded more hands.
Their ask was specific. They didn't want a contractor or a typical offshore resource. They wanted someone who would function as a founding team member — sit in product calls and take complete ownership of the product.
"We weren't looking for someone to close tickets. We needed a builder who could sit in product conversations, push back when they saw something off, and treat what we're building as their own."
Burhan Syed — CEO, Rondah
Underneath the brief was an unspoken test. The founders wanted to know whether Pakistani talent could match what they would hire in San Francisco. The answer to that question would shape every decision they made about offshore hiring from that point forward.
02
The challenge
Their first engineering hire had to be exceptional. Not just good.
Rondah engaged Taraki shortly after closing their Techstars-backed pre-seed round. The company had three co-founders — all technical, all building at a pace that demanded more hands.
Their ask was specific. They didn't want a contractor or a typical offshore resource. They wanted someone who would function as a founding team member — sit in product calls and take complete ownership of the product.
"We weren't looking for someone to close tickets. We needed a builder who could sit in product conversations, push back when they saw something off, and treat what we're building as their own."
Burhan Syed — CEO, Rondah
Underneath the brief was an unspoken test. The founders wanted to know whether Pakistani talent could match what they would hire in San Francisco. The answer to that question would shape every decision they made about offshore hiring from that point forward.
03
How we made the first hire
We started by listening, then sourced against a sharper brief than the role required. Our discovery call went deeper than most — we understood how the founders communicated, how responsibility moved day to day, what growth trajectory they envisioned, and what had worked in previous working relationships.
One framing came out of that conversation and shaped the entire process.
The framing
They wanted engineers who behave like product owners.
Not ticket-closers. Not remote contractors. Builders who take initiative.
01
Sourcing
We went into our talent pool specifically against the product-owner profile. AI engineering background required. Strong English communication non-negotiable.
02
Pre-screen
We ran our own technical and behavioral screen before any candidate met Rondah.
03
Their interview process
Technical screen with the CTO, then a product and culture conversation with the CEO.
04
Close
We managed the offer stage end-to-end.
First hire placed — roughly one month from kickoff.
03
How we made the first hire
We started by listening, then sourced against a sharper brief than the role required. Our discovery call went deeper than most — we understood how the founders communicated, how responsibility moved day to day, what growth trajectory they envisioned, and what had worked in previous working relationships.
One framing came out of that conversation and shaped the entire process.
The framing
They wanted engineers who behave like product owners.
Not ticket-closers. Not remote contractors. Builders who take initiative.
01
Sourcing
We went into our talent pool specifically against the product-owner profile. AI engineering background required. Strong English communication non-negotiable.
02
Pre-screen
We ran our own technical and behavioral screen before any candidate met Rondah.
03
Their interview process
Technical screen with the CTO, then a product and culture conversation with the CEO.
04
Close
We managed the offer stage end-to-end.
First hire placed — roughly one month from kickoff.
03
How we made the first hire
We started by listening, then sourced against a sharper brief than the role required. Our discovery call went deeper than most — we understood how the founders communicated, how responsibility moved day to day, what growth trajectory they envisioned, and what had worked in previous working relationships.
One framing came out of that conversation and shaped the entire process.
The framing
They wanted engineers who behave like product owners.
Not ticket-closers. Not remote contractors. Builders who take initiative.
01
Sourcing
We went into our talent pool specifically against the product-owner profile. AI engineering background required. Strong English communication non-negotiable.
02
Pre-screen
We ran our own technical and behavioral screen before any candidate met Rondah.
03
Their interview process
Technical screen with the CTO, then a product and culture conversation with the CEO.
04
Close
We managed the offer stage end-to-end.
First hire placed — roughly one month from kickoff.
04
How the relationship grew
That first hire worked. It took over a month to close, but it reset expectations. Rondah came back for a second engineer, then a third. By the sixth hire, placements were closing in two to three weeks.
The subsequent hires moved so much faster because we already knew what worked at Rondah — not on paper, but in practice. We knew how the founders gave feedback, what tripped people up in their first month, which technical strengths translated and which didn't. Each new placement was calibrated against a real, working example.
What changed between hire one and hire six
The bar didn't change — our ability to read the signal did. We stopped guessing what a Rondah engineer looked like and started recognizing one.
Finding engineers who think like founders is hard. Taraki didn't just find us engineers — they found us builders. Two and a half years later, they're still core to everything we ship.
Burhan Syed
CEO & Co-Founder, Rondah
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Case studies Rondah
Founding-team build · AI · Healthcare
How Rondah built its core engineering team entirely from Pakistan.
From Techstars pre-seed to 300+ dental practices. Six engineers. Two and a half years. One partnership that's still going.
Relationship
2.5+ yrs, active
Engineers placed
6
Capital raised since
$3.5M
Sector
AI · Healthcare
01
About Rondah
Rondah builds AI receptionists for Dental Service Organizations — the PE-backed groups that operate hundreds of dental practices across North America. Their agents answer every patient call, schedule appointments, handle insurance queries, and update practice management systems in real time, around the clock.
The company was co-founded by Burhan Syed, Allan Svirsky, and Mohammed Mian — three longtime friends who grew up working in Allan's family dental practices. They watched the front-desk chaos firsthand: phones ringing nonstop, staff stretched thin, patients falling through the cracks. They built Rondah to fix it from the ground up.
Backed by
Techstars '24
2048 Ventures
Twelve Below
Today:
$3.5M raised
·
300+ practices
across the US and Canada.
02
The challenge
Their first engineering hire had to be exceptional. Not just good.
Rondah engaged Taraki shortly after closing their Techstars-backed pre-seed round. The company had three co-founders — all technical, all building at a pace that demanded more hands.
Their ask was specific. They didn't want a contractor or a typical offshore resource. They wanted someone who would function as a founding team member — sit in product calls and take complete ownership of the product.
"We weren't looking for someone to close tickets. We needed a builder who could sit in product conversations, push back when they saw something off, and treat what we're building as their own."
Burhan Syed — CEO, Rondah
Underneath the brief was an unspoken test. The founders wanted to know whether Pakistani talent could match what they would hire in San Francisco. The answer to that question would shape every decision they made about offshore hiring from that point forward.
03
How we made the first hire
We started by listening, then sourced against a sharper brief than the role required. Our discovery call went deeper than most — we understood how the founders communicated, how responsibility moved day to day, what growth trajectory they envisioned, and what had worked in previous working relationships.
One framing came out of that conversation and shaped the entire process.
The framing
They wanted engineers who behave like product owners.
Not ticket-closers. Not remote contractors. Builders who take initiative.
01
Sourcing
We went into our talent pool specifically against the product-owner profile. AI engineering background required. Strong English communication non-negotiable.
02
Pre-screen
We ran our own technical and behavioral screen before any candidate met Rondah.
03
Their interview process
Technical screen with the CTO, then a product and culture conversation with the CEO.
04
Close
We managed the offer stage end-to-end.
First hire placed — roughly one month from kickoff.
04
How the relationship grew
That first hire worked. It took over a month to close, but it reset expectations. Rondah came back for a second engineer, then a third. By the sixth hire, placements were closing in two to three weeks.
The subsequent hires moved so much faster because we already knew what worked at Rondah — not on paper, but in practice. We knew how the founders gave feedback, what tripped people up in their first month, which technical strengths translated and which didn't. Each new placement was calibrated against a real, working example.
What changed between hire one and hire six
The bar didn't change — our ability to read the signal did. We stopped guessing what a Rondah engineer looked like and started recognizing one.
05
Rondah's growth, alongside the team
The Pakistan team isn't adjacent to Rondah's growth. It's a load-bearing part of it.
Two and a half years on, the partnership is still active. The six engineers have shipped across the product surface area, owned core systems, and freed the founders to focus on customers, fundraising, and expansion.
300+
Practices across North America
3
Cities
$3.5M
Pre-seed raised
100%
Offshore retention
That stability isn't a coincidence. It's what happens when you hire people who were embedded from day one — not bolted on as contractors.
“
Finding engineers who think like founders is hard. Taraki didn't just find us engineers — they found us builders. Two and a half years later, they're still core to everything we ship.
BS Burhan Syed
CEO & Co-Founder, Rondah
Build your founding team
Hiring your founding engineers from Pakistan?
We help early-stage founders build engineering teams that grow with them — people who own the product from day one, not contractors who close tickets.
Book a 20-minute intro call
Read the full story
Build your founding team
Hiring your founding engineers from Pakistan?
We help early-stage founders build engineering teams that grow with them — people who own the product from day one, not contractors who close tickets.
Book a 20-minute intro call
Read the full story
04
How the relationship grew
That first hire worked. It took over a month to close, but it reset expectations. Rondah came back for a second engineer, then a third. By the sixth hire, placements were closing in two to three weeks.
The subsequent hires moved so much faster because we already knew what worked at Rondah — not on paper, but in practice. We knew how the founders gave feedback, what tripped people up in their first month, which technical strengths translated and which didn't. Each new placement was calibrated against a real, working example.
What changed between hire one and hire six
The bar didn't change — our ability to read the signal did. We stopped guessing what a Rondah engineer looked like and started recognizing one.
04
How the relationship grew
That first hire worked. It took over a month to close, but it reset expectations. Rondah came back for a second engineer, then a third. By the sixth hire, placements were closing in two to three weeks.
The subsequent hires moved so much faster because we already knew what worked at Rondah — not on paper, but in practice. We knew how the founders gave feedback, what tripped people up in their first month, which technical strengths translated and which didn't. Each new placement was calibrated against a real, working example.
What changed between hire one and hire six
The bar didn't change — our ability to read the signal did. We stopped guessing what a Rondah engineer looked like and started recognizing one.
04
How the relationship grew
That first hire worked. It took over a month to close, but it reset expectations. Rondah came back for a second engineer, then a third. By the sixth hire, placements were closing in two to three weeks.
The subsequent hires moved so much faster because we already knew what worked at Rondah — not on paper, but in practice. We knew how the founders gave feedback, what tripped people up in their first month, which technical strengths translated and which didn't. Each new placement was calibrated against a real, working example.
What changed between hire one and hire six
The bar didn't change — our ability to read the signal did. We stopped guessing what a Rondah engineer looked like and started recognizing one.
Finding engineers who think like founders is hard. Taraki didn't just find us engineers — they found us builders. Two and a half years later, they're still core to everything we ship.
Burhan Syed
CEO & Co-Founder, Rondah
Finding engineers who think like founders is hard. Taraki didn't just find us engineers — they found us builders. Two and a half years later, they're still core to everything we ship.
Burhan Syed
CEO & Co-Founder, Rondah