Jerica Kuah
Jerica Kuah is a Toronto-based founder who made an unconventional move from medical school to building software startups. After training in medicine and public health at the University of Manchester — including an intercalated Master of Public Health — she pivoted to technology, co-founding Beloga as a knowledge amplification platform, then building two subsequent products: Musey.me (an AI health companion) and Nomit.dev (a live coding commentary feed). Her LinkedIn tagline is "medicine → tech" and her summary is three words: "i build things." 1
Medical Training in Manchester
Jerica enrolled in the Bachelor of Medical Science in Medicine program at the University of Manchester in 2018 — a five- to six-year clinical degree that is one of the most demanding academic tracks available in the UK. The Manchester MBChB curriculum combines two years of preclinical training with three years of clinical rotations across hospitals in the region 1.
In 2023, she took an intercalation year — a common practice among UK medical students where a year is carved out from the clinical track to complete an additional degree. Jerica's intercalation was in Public Health: she completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) at Manchester, graduating in 2024. Her dissertation focused on university social responsibility in relation to public health — a systems-level question about the obligations of educational institutions toward population health outcomes 1.
The research instinct embedded in that dissertation — taking a structural, evidence-based view of how institutions shape health — sits in quiet contrast to what she built afterward. Where the MPH concerned collective health systems, her subsequent products have been personal, intimate tools: a knowledge companion, an emotional health tool, and a coding journal.
Beloga: Knowledge Amplification
In 2024, Jerica co-founded Beloga with Wilson Ler. Beloga was a knowledge amplification platform that helped individuals and teams capture, connect, and develop collective insights — the goal being to make knowledge work more active and less passive than traditional note-taking or wiki tools allowed 2.
The two co-founders brought complementary perspectives: Wilson with deep engineering experience in search, AI, and full-stack systems; Jerica with a research background in public health and what appears to be a strong product intuition shaped by years in a rigorous, evidence-heavy discipline. Together they built Beloga using RAG, Large Language Models, and Next.js, and launched to earn 2nd Product of the Day on Product Hunt within their first year 2.
In October 2024, they appeared together on the Digitalconomics Podcast to discuss the product's thesis and what it felt like to build a tech startup between Canada and Singapore — navigating the gap between that ecosystem and the US and European environments both founders had also encountered 2.
Musey.me: Health Companion with Affective Memory
In June 2025, Jerica co-founded Musey.me — described on her LinkedIn as "an AI personal health companion with affective memory." The product targeted a specific gap in AI health tools: most are either clinical information retrieval systems or passive symptom checkers, with little capacity to remember who a person is over time or respond to the emotional texture of their situation. Musey was designed to do both 1.
The company ran through December 2025. In six months, Jerica shipped the product and brought it to users before sunsetting it — a tight loop of build, test, learn, and move on that has characterized her entire arc after leaving medicine 1.
Nomit.dev: Live Commentary for Code
As of March 2025 — running parallel to Musey before that wound down — Jerica began co-founding Nomit.dev. The product is a live coding feed: connect a GitHub repository and every push, PR, and release is converted into a readable, shareable commentary stream. The product's tagline is "your code activity, made readable." 3
The concept sits at an interesting intersection. Developers already narrate their work through commit messages and pull request descriptions, but those are terse, technical artifacts with no interpretive layer. Nomit translates that activity into something followable, shareable, and human — like having a public changelog that writes itself, or a build log that communicates to non-engineers 3. The product is installable via GitHub in under 30 seconds.
Jerica describes shipping Nomit as "built and shipped a live coding feed that turns github activity into readable commentary" — characteristically short and precise about what the thing does 1.
A Pattern of Building
What's notable about Jerica's post-medicine career is the tempo: three products in roughly two years, each a distinct bet on a different user problem. Beloga for knowledge workers, Musey for health, Nomit for developers. None of them are obvious healthcare applications — which might seem surprising for someone with medical training. But her MPH dissertation's focus on structural responsibility, rather than individual care, suggests someone who was always thinking at the level of systems and interfaces, not just clinical intervention.
Her move to Toronto — a growing technology hub with a significant AI research community anchored by the Vector Institute and University of Toronto — placed her in an environment that supported this kind of iterative building. The Canada-Singapore axis she and Wilson operated Beloga across has since been replaced by a more Toronto-native presence as her current products are primarily web-native and globally distributed.
References
- Jerica Kuah LinkedIn Profile(accessed Apr 22, 2026)
- Digitalconomics #21: Building Beloga - A New Approach to Knowledge Management(accessed Apr 22, 2026)
- Nomit.dev Official Website(accessed Apr 22, 2026)