Alchemist is a venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator in 2016 based on the median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, prioritizing having distinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides seed investment into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community throughout a 6-month program. The company's backers include many of the top corporate and VC funds in the Valley -- including Khosla Ventures, DFJ, Cisco, GE, next47(Siemens), and Salesforce, among others—the accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures/year. Notable alumni include LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Quantum Computing, mPharma, Matternet, and Mightyhive.

Alchemist Accelerator

Waterline is a group of longtime healthcare investors who partner with amazing entrepreneurs tackling the healthcare industries toughest problems.  Waterline Ventures invests in the early stage healthcare technology and services companies that are improving the way care is delivered. Increasing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate access to healthcare create the need for innovation. Companies that address these issues stand to create tremendous value while improving people's lives across the country and around the world. There is a massive and growing opportunity for technological transformation in healthcare. Their entrepreneurs are leading the change within healthcare.

Waterline Ventures

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious.  The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

MaC Venture Capital

Healthy Ventures is a purpose-built, early-stage venture investor focused on health tech, with a mission is to unlock the full potential of healthcare. They invest with conviction - not consensus. This means that when they invest, they've done the work to believe that the solution has a real, unfair shot at scale impact on the healthcare market. Usually, these are product-based, not service, businesses. They typically serve as lead investors with 1-2m checks.   When they back a founder, they commit to bringing a vigorous understanding of both healthcare and broader markets to stimulate productive conversations, ‍dedicated Go-to-Market approach and resources to accelerate market adoption, and robust network of customer, advisor, and talent to support the founder on the (textured) journey ahead.

Healthy Ventures

AMV is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage digital health, tech, and life sciences companies. The firm has provided early-stage financing for ground-breaking companies such as Amgen, Tandem Computer, and Applied BioSystems. Asset Management was founded in 1965 by venture capitalist Franklin ''Pitch'' Johnson in Palo Alto, California.

Asset Management Ventures (AMV)

Katalyst Ventures is a venture fund investment firm. The firm seeks to invest in seed and early-stage companies operating in the digital health, fintech, enterprise software, and technology sectors.

Katalyst Ventures

Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments.  We've been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe).  We've had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll.  We've gone from $0 to $100m in ARR and lived all the stages in between.  We've here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights.  And not be in the way when we're not needed.

Storm Ventures

Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of multi-billion dollar investment firm Maverick Capital. Combining the resources of a global firm with the benefits of an agile, focused team, Maverick Ventures supports entrepreneurs from seed through maturity. With over 30 years of early-stage investment experience, the Maverick Ventures team has funded more than 100 companies in the healthcare, software and deep technology sectors. The highly-experienced team of operating executives and investors at Maverick Ventures generally lead rounds, take board seats and work with management to build successful enterprises.

Maverick Ventures

Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.

Seven Peaks Ventures

Atypical Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It offers funding services to business entrepreneurs, emerging, and start-up companies.

Atypical Ventures

The CU Healthcare Innovation Fund is located on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. The fund invests in companies that have developed meaningful partnerships with the institutions on the campus. The $50 million fund invests across digital health, therapeutics and devices.

The CU Healthcare Innovation Fund

Mass General Brigham Ventures is the venture capital arm of Mass General Brigham that invests in early-stage companies. The primary mission of MGB Ventures is to accelerate the translation of innovative research and technology developed within the Mass General Brigham system into commercial solutions that can significantly improve patient care and healthcare delivery.

Mass General Brigham Ventures

Paramark Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments. It also invests in businesses with high growth potential in fast-growing markets around the world, with a particular focus on India.

Paramark Ventures

Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care system that connects a full continuum of care across various medical facilities and services. The organization focuses on patient care, research, and education while advancing innovative solutions in medicine. It also serves as a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, contributing significantly to biomedical research.

Mass General Brigham

The American College of Cardiology, a 49000-member nonprofit medical society.

American College of Cardiology

Frist Cressey Ventures is focused on accelerating the growth of high potential healthcare enterprises through value-added partnerships.  We invest in technology and service businesses with viable solutions that improve quality of care, system integration, patient outcomes, and population health and wellbeing.  We join like-minded entrepreneurs who share similar core values in their pursuit to improve healthcare.

Frist Cressey Ventures

UnityPoint Health is one of the nation's most integrated health systems,Their physician-led team of professionals communicates clearly and effectively to address a patient's health care in the most appropriate setting: whether that is a clinic, a hospital or at home. Through relationships with more than 280 physician clinics, 30 hospitals in metropolitan and rural communities, and home care services throughout its 8 regions, UnityPoint Health provides care throughout Iowa and Illinois.Each year, through more than 4 million patient visits, UnityPoint Health, UnityPoint Clinic and UnityPoint at Home provide a full range of coordinated care to patients and families. With annual revenues of $2.7 billion, UnityPoint Health is the nation's 13th largest nonprofit health system and the fourth largest nondenominational health system.

UnityPoint Health

The Memorial Hermann Foundation's goal is to provide financial support to the Memorial Hermann Health System.

Memorial Hermann Foundation

Carta Healthcare

Carta Healthcare empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient. The approach Carta Healthcare is advocating and enabling to find past patients similar to the current one being treated, quantify what exactly happened to them during their journey through the hospital (this is where our model comes in), and use machine learning to project what the particular patient in question will need, and what the patient can expect their experience to be in the hospital.

Carta healthcare is a San Francisco-based provider of clinical data management solutions founded in 2017. The company offers three main products - Atlas, Navigator, and Semaphore, powered by its Cartographer analytics platform. Atlas is an AI-powered data abstraction tool that helps hospitals submit patient data to clinical registries efficiently and accurately. Navigator analyzes healthcare organizations' data to provide recommendations for improving operational workflows. Semaphore, introduced in September 2022, is a development platform that enables healthcare organizations to create custom data science tools and AI models.

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Clinical Abstraction Solutions

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Carta healthcare is a San Francisco-based provider of clinical data management solutions founded in 2017. The company offers three main products - Atlas, Navigator, and Semaphore, powered by its Cartographer analytics platform. Atlas is an AI-powered data abstraction tool that helps hospitals submit patient data to clinical registries efficiently and accurately. Navigator analyzes healthcare organizations' data to provide recommendations for improving operational workflows. Semaphore, introduced in September 2022, is a development platform that enables healthcare organizations to create custom data science tools and AI models.
Carta's technology uses AI to streamline data entry tasks, reducing the administrative burden on nurses and clinicians. The AI replicates the work of data abstractors, allowing healthcare professionals to spend more time on patient care. However, Carta's approach involves a combination of AI and human verification, as clinician input is required for certain data fields to maintain accuracy.
Carta's solutions have been deployed across 245 hospitals within 18 health systems as of November 2022, including Stanford healthcare, Mass General Brigham, CommonSpirit Health, and UCSF Health. The company has demonstrated cost savings for its customers, with Stanford healthcare reportedly saving USD 4 million by optimizing surgical supply management using Carta's technology.

Modernizing Medicine is a healthcare technology company that specializes in developing cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) systems and solutions tailored for specific medical specialties. Their flagship products, EMA and gGastro EHR, are designed to streamline clinical workflows and documentation processes, saving time for healthcare providers. These intuitive platforms incorporate built-in medical knowledge and can adapt to individual practice preferences.
Beyond EHRs, Modernizing Medicine offers an integrated suite of products and services, including practice management, revenue cycle management, endoscopy report writing, analytics, and advisory services. Their solutions aim to address the challenges of value-based care, such as population health management, quality measure reporting, and optimizing reimbursements.
Modernizing Medicine's innovative EHR architecture emphasizes speed, convenience, and adaptability, enabling doctors to complete exams efficiently. The systems can generate notes, suggest codes, and automate billing processes, reducing administrative burdens.
In November 2022, Modernizing Medicine agreed to pay USD 45 million to resolve allegations of accepting and paying illegal kickbacks, as well as causing users to report inaccurate information for federal incentive payments. The settlement addressed three marketing programs alleged to have violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Modernizing Medicine

Kyruus Health is a leading provider of care access solutions that connect patients with the right healthcare providers. The company's platform integrates comprehensive provider data, enabling informed decisions and seamless access to care across various touchpoints. Kyruus Health's offerings include provider search and scheduling tools, cost transparency solutions, and data management capabilities.
Kyruus Health's technology facilitates provider matching, appointment scheduling, and digital patient intake processes. The platform enhances the overall patient experience by streamlining access to care and ensuring transparency regarding provider expertise, availability, and costs. Additionally, Kyruus Health's solutions empower healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, medical groups, and health plans, to optimize provider utilization and comply with industry mandates.
Through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, Kyruus Health has expanded its network to encompass over 425,000 providers across more than 1,000 hospitals and 500 medical groups. As of 2023, the company served over 90 million health plan members from 100 different health plan brands, solidifying its position as a leading care access platform.
Key customers and partnerships
In July 2024, Kyruus Health announced a strategic partnership with XO Health, an innovative healthcare services organization designed for self-insured employers. This collaboration aimed to enhance XO Health's digital member experience by integrating Kyruus Health's provider search and cost transparency tools, ultimately creating a seamless healthcare journey for members, providers, and payers.
Furthermore, in May 2024, Kyruus Health expanded its national provider network by integrating virtual behavioral health providers, demonstrating its commitment to improving access to mental health services. This expansion added over 30,000 virtual behavioral health providers to the Kyruus Network, enabling health plans, hospitals, and medical groups to seamlessly integrate these providers into their online directories and address access gaps.
Kyruus Health also partnered with WellHive and V3 Gate to support the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), aiming to improve care for all Veterans by accelerating access to care through centralized appointment management across VHA sites.

Kyruus

AKASA is a healthcare technology company that leverages advanced generative AI and machine learning models to address administrative inefficiencies and financial challenges in the revenue cycle management (RCM) process. Their AI solutions are specifically trained on vast amounts of clinical and financial data to comprehend the nuances of the healthcare industry.
AKASA's platform is powered by large language models and generative AI capabilities akin to ChatGPT, but optimized and tailored for the healthcare domain. Their AI understands clinical context, grasps the intricate details of health systems, and is designed to integrate directly into staff workflows, enabling automation of routine tasks and improving operational efficiencies.
The company takes an "expert-in-the-loop" approach called Unified Automation, which combines machine learning with human expertise. This allows their technology to adapt to the dynamic nature of revenue cycle operations while benefiting from the judgement of AKASA's in-house team of RCM veterans with an average of over 15 years of industry experience.
AKASA's solutions aim to reduce the substantial administrative waste associated with billing and insurance communication failures, estimated at over USD 500 billion annually in the USD 4 trillion healthcare industry. By automating comprehensive and complex tasks, AKASA enables healthcare providers to reallocate staff toward patient-facing activities and enhance care delivery.

AKASA

XSOLIS is an AI technology company that offers a platform and solutions to create a more efficient healthcare system by facilitating improved communication and alignment between healthcare providers and payers. The company's flagship product, CORTEX, is an AI-driven platform that utilizes real-time predictive analytics to continuously assign an objective medical necessity score and assess the anticipated level of care for every patient. This technology aims to eliminate waste by leveraging data science, automation, transparency, and objective insights to ensure appropriate care settings.
XSOLIS's solutions streamline patient status communications, enabling providers and payers to align on medical necessity, length of stay timelines, and appropriate care levels. The platform's AI capabilities enable the creation of live clinical profiles for each patient, recognizing patterns to generate predictive analytics for determining the most suitable care setting. CORTEX reduces the administrative burden of case reviews through its proprietary Care Level Score (CLS), allowing teams to prioritize discharge planning tasks and driving optimal workflows.
By August 2022, XSOLIS achieved a three-year revenue growth of 388%, ranking No. 1795 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. The company reported 111% growth in its payer network and a 44% increase in hospital partnerships in the same year.

XSOLIS

Suki AI is a healthcare technology company that develops an AI-powered voice assistant, Suki Assistant, designed to help clinicians complete administrative tasks efficiently. The Suki Assistant utilizes natural language processing and generative AI to transcribe conversations between clinicians and patients into clinical notes, populating electronic health records (EHRs) with relevant data. By automating documentation, the company aims to reduce the time clinicians spend on paperwork, claiming to shrink it by as much as 72% in family medicine settings.
Suki Assistant offers multiple modes, including ambient note generation, dictation, and voice commands. The ambient mode leverages generative AI to listen to clinician-patient interactions and auto-generate clinical notes in real-time without human intervention. Clinicians can accept, reject, or edit the AI-generated content to ensure accuracy. In addition to documentation, Suki Assistant can retrieve patient information, such as medication lists and allergies, from EHRs and provide diagnosis code recommendations.
Suki Assistant is deeply integrated with major EHR systems, including Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, Elation, and Meditech, enabling bidirectional synchronization of notes and codes. The company expanded its capabilities to support inpatient care settings in October 2023, making it the first AI-powered voice solution tailored for clinicians in hospitals. Suki Assistant operates across various platforms, including iOS, Android, web, Windows, Mac, and as a Chrome extension.
In October 2023, Suki announced the acquisition of an undisclosed company to enhance its personalization features, allowing the assistant to adapt to individual user preferences and existing workflows.

Suki

Platforms used by hospitals to manage the various aspects of patient care to improve overall efficiency, such as automating routine tasks, improving communication and coordination among healthcare providers, and enhancing patient outcomes within the hospital setting

Platforms that enable patients to actively participate in their healthcare journey by educating and engaging them, along with improving communication with healthcare providers

Platforms that help healthcare organizations analyze patient data and other performance metrics to improve decision-making and optimize resource allocation

Platforms that are designed to help hospitals and health systems manage their financial operations from patient billing and insurance claims to revenue tracking and analysis

AI-powered software solutions that are designed to help healthcare organizations streamline and automate the process of documenting patient encounters

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for hospital management

IoT medical solutions turn traditional hospitals into smart hospitals, allowing them to streamline workflows

AI/ML algorithms optimize workflows, enable predictive modeling, and analyze patient data in healthcare

Offers software platforms that streamline and improve hospital operations

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