Turning a hospital's scattered protocols into one AI-searchable source of truth - delivered to clinicians at the point of care.
C8 Health, New York - the clinician-founded platform that reached 30 of America's top academic medical centers. Vetted guidance, one tap from the bedside.
Every hospital already owns the knowledge its clinicians need - protocols, drug guidelines, checklists, society recommendations. The trouble is that this knowledge lives in PDFs, shared drives, three-ring binders and the memory of the senior resident who happens to be off shift. C8 Health, a New York healthtech company founded in 2022, exists to fix that unglamorous problem: not to invent new medical evidence, but to make the vetted guidance a hospital already trusts findable in seconds, on the right device, for the right person.
The company builds what it calls a best-practices implementation platform. It consolidates a hospital's clinical resources into a single, site-specific source of truth, then delivers them through search, mobile-friendly formats and a natural-language AI assistant that answers questions using the institution's own vetted content. It is used across more than 100 U.S. hospitals, including roughly 30 of the nation's leading academic medical centers - Mount Sinai, UCSF Health and Brigham & Women's among them. In July 2025 it raised a $12 million Series A led by Team8, bringing total funding to about $18 million.
C8 Health calls it the evidence-to-practice gap: the distance between what medical evidence recommends and what actually happens on the ward. When the right protocol is hard to reach in the moment, the same procedure gets done three different ways on three floors of the same building. That variability is estimated to waste roughly $345 billion a year across U.S. healthcare.
The company's thesis is behavioral, not clinical. When knowledge is one tap away, clinicians reach for it constantly; when it is buried, they rely on memory and habit. A pediatric ER nurse with 26 years on the job told the company she now checks the app before every procedure - not because the guidance changed, but because it finally became easy to find.
"When knowledge is easy to access, clinicians refer to it constantly."
- A 26-year pediatric ER nurse, on using C8 Health before every procedureThe platform integrates with hospital EMRs and mobile devices, then delivers content tailored to a clinician's role, department and schedule - with dashboards that show leaders whether it is actually being used.
A natural-language assistant answers clinical questions using the hospital's own vetted knowledge base, returning institution-specific responses instantly.
Automatically converts clinical documents into searchable, mobile-friendly, point-of-care formats - no more scrolling through a 40-page PDF.
Lets institutions tap vetted protocols from peer hospitals, turning isolated repositories into a connected clinical knowledge network.
Collaborative spaces for systems, departments and teams, plus executive dashboards that monitor adoption and adherence over time.
Traditional clinical tools like UpToDate, ClinicalKey and DynaMed are broad reference libraries: authoritative, but generic. C8 Health takes a different starting point. Rather than a universal encyclopedia delivered top-down, it surfaces each institution's own vetted, site-specific content, delivered bottom-up to the people at the bedside. The company describes itself as the first knowledge-management platform built from the clinician's workflow outward, prioritizing rapid decision-making in the moment over administrative reporting.
That positioning shapes the go-to-market too. C8 Health landed first in a single high-pain specialty - anesthesiology - proved 90%+ adoption inside six months, then expanded outward to whole health systems. With a target market of more than 6,000 U.S. hospitals and an estimated $4 billion-plus opportunity, the wedge strategy gives it room to grow one department at a time.
C8 Health started with a physician's own frustration. Co-founder Ido Zamberg, an anesthesiologist trained also as a software engineer, couldn't quickly find the guideline he needed - so he built a tool for his department. It spread across his hospital and became the basis for the product.
PhD in strategy from Technion, former visiting professor at NYU Stern. Led go-to-market at early- and late-stage tech companies before C8 Health.
Anesthesiologist trained at Geneva University Hospitals and McGill, and a Mamram-trained developer. Built the original tool that became the platform.
Co-founding member of the team building C8 Health's technology and platform.
"This round will help us grow our team to support market needs. The platform is proving invaluable as a single source of truth."
- Galia Rosen Schwarz, Co-founder & CEOGalia Rosen Schwarz, Ido Zamberg and Tzach Klo set out to make clinical best practices accessible at the point of care.
Early rounds fund the first hospital departments, starting in anesthesiology, backed by Team8 and 10D.
The platform grows from single departments to whole health systems and adds a shared Knowledge Hub across institutions.
Team8 leads a $12M Series A with 10D and Vertex Ventures Israel - total funding reaches $18M, reach hits 100+ hospitals.
C8 Health is a B2B SaaS company. It sells its platform to hospitals and health systems as an enterprise subscription, integrated with their EMRs and delivered to clinicians on web and mobile. Content and distribution partnerships with professional medical societies extend the platform's vetted knowledge base - a flywheel where more institutions mean more shared, trusted guidance.
Hospitals, academic medical centers and multi-site health systems.
Clinicians and clinical teams at the bedside - nurses, physicians, residents.
Team8 (lead), 10D and Vertex Ventures Israel.
It provides an AI-powered platform that consolidates a hospital's clinical protocols and guidelines into a single source of truth and delivers vetted, site-specific answers to clinicians at the point of care.
It was founded in 2022 by Galia Rosen Schwarz (CEO), Ido Zamberg (CMO, a physician and software engineer) and Tzach Klo.
More than 100 U.S. hospitals, including around 30 top academic medical centers such as Mount Sinai, UCSF Health and Brigham & Women's.
About $18 million total, including a $12 million Series A led by Team8 announced in July 2025.
Rather than a generic reference library, C8 Health surfaces each institution's own vetted, site-specific content and delivers it by role, department and shift through an AI assistant integrated with the EMR.
Profile compiled from public sources, July 2026. Figures are approximate where noted.