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Commure, an AI platform for healthcare operations, secured a $70M financing round at a $7 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Kirkland & Ellis.Tackling the $1 Trillion Problem: The company’s agentic AI infrastructure targets administrative waste—a sector that consumes an estimated $1 trillion annually in the U.S. alone.Proven Operational Automation: Commure’s end-to-end revenue cycle
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Century Health Raises $5M for CHARM AI Platform to Accelerate Life Sciences Research
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Century Health has closed an oversubscribed $5M seed financing round led by Origin Ventures, bringing its total funding to an industry-accelerated position.The platform's proprietary Century Health Abstraction & Retrieval Model (CHARM) automates the curation of unstructured EHR data (notes, reports, and documentation), achieving a 97% accuracy rate validated against clinical expert judgment.Century Health expanded its specialty provider data network 60x over the past
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Optura Raises $17.5M to Measure Healthcare AI ROI and Performance
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Optura, an enterprise healthcare platform, has announced a $17.5M Series A funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $25M.The platform introduces ROAI™ (Return on AI Investment), a discipline designed to help healthcare organizations objectively measure the business value and viability of AI initiatives.Despite the industry spending over $18B on AI this year, approximately 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots have failed to produce measurable
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Shyld AI Secures $13.4M to Scale Agentic AI and Autonomous Disinfection Across U.S. Health Systems
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Shyld AI has closed a $13.4M seed round led by Aulis Capital, marking one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector.The company is moving beyond "passive" ambient AI to Active Intelligence, deploying Agentic AI systems that take real-time action inside physical hospital environments.Flagship Technology: The system combines AI with UV-C light technology to autonomously disinfect rooms; a Stanford University study found it reduced contamination by more
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Urologic Health Secures $11M for Non-Invasive Bladder Function Monitoring
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Urologic Health Inc. has closed an $11M seed financing round led by an undisclosed strategic investor, with participation from Edge Medical Ventures, SHD Partners, and Longevity Venture Partners.The funding supports clinical validation and the FDA 510(k) regulatory pathway for the company’s niu™ System.The niu™ System is designed to provide comprehensive bladder function data without catheterization, addressing conditions such as overactive bladder, urinary retention, and
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Chromie Health Raises $2M to Automate Hospital Operations via AI Agent “Dispatch”
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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native AI agent that fills internal nursing shift gaps in under five minutes—a process that typically takes five hours manually.There is currently a waitlist of 750 hospitals seeking to implement the platform.Chronic nursing shortages and turnover are estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system more than
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9amHealth Raises $26M to Expand AI-Driven Virtual Specialty Care for Chronic Conditions
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9amHealth has secured $26M in Series B funding led by Define Ventures, bringing new participation from SemperVirens, Catalio Capital Management, and NewHealth Ventures.The platform has demonstrated over $50 million in projected medical and pharmacy savings across two Fortune 100 employers.The expansion targets chronic conditions that account for up to 70% of employer pharmacy spend, moving beyond its initial focus on cardiometabolic care.The company’s integrated model
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UC Berkeley Spinout Knit Health Launches with $11.6M to Scale LCBM Platform
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UC Berkeley spinout Knit Health has officially launched out of stealth with $11.6M in seed funding co-led by Uncork Capital and Frist Cressey Ventures.The platform introduces a new AI framework called the Large Clinical Behavior Model (LCBM), which shifts away from traditional text-based large language models to focus on real-world clinical decision patterns.To train its behavioral world model, Knit Health leverages a massive data foundation consisting of Truveta EMR data
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Basata Secures $21M to Rebuild Healthcare’s Operational Layer: Automating Referrals and Scheduling End-to-End
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Basata, an AI company focused on healthcare operations, has announced a $21M Series A funding round led by Basis Set Ventures.The platform uses specialty-specific AI agents to automate administrative tasks such as faxes, referrals, patient intake, and scheduling.Practices using Basata report processing 100% of incoming referrals the same day and unlocking 50% more administrative labor capacity.To date, the company has served more than 500,000 patients, with 100,000 served
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Wisdom Ventures Closes $77.7M Fund II to Invest in AI-Native Wellbeing Startups
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Wisdom Ventures has closed its $77.7M Fund II, a significant increase from its $10 million Fund I.The fund is backed by prominent technology leaders, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Evan Sharp (Pinterest), and Stewart Butterfield (Slack).Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has joined as a Senior Venture Partner to advise on health and wellness investments.Fund I established a strong track record, reaching the top quartile of early-stage funds and including
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