# Flume Health

> Flume Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company building operational infrastructure that connects the fragmented data ecosystem behind health plans. Founded in 2017 by Cedric Kovacs-Johnson and Vineeth Bhuvanagiri, Flume gives payers, third-party administrators, and vendors a way to move, translate, and make sense of healthcare data. It started as a plan administrator, pivoted to the Relay integration platform, and has since evolved into an AI-native data platform - mapping enterprise data estates into a living knowledge graph and running domain-specific AI agents so non-technical teams can query and act on healthcare data in plain language.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Cedric Kovacs-Johnson (CEO & Founder), Vineeth Bhuvanagiri (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~19 employees
- **Products:** Flume Relay, Ask, Estate, Agents, Value Lab
- **Notable:** Raised a $30M Series A in 2022 (total funding $40M+), backed by both Optum Ventures and Cigna Ventures., Reached its Series A milestone roughly six months after its prior round., Named to the NYC Digital Health 100 by NYCHBL (2022).

## Products & services

- **Flume Relay** — A single, cloud-native integration platform that connects the systems, vendors, and point solutions behind a health plan, acting as a universal translation layer to automate data exchange between payers, TPAs, and vendors. Flume reports it reduces integration cost and time by nearly 80%.
- **Ask** — A natural-language interface that lets non-technical users query across multiple healthcare data sources without writing SQL, with an emphasis on trustworthy, hallucination-resistant answers.
- **Estate** — Maps an organization's entire data estate into a living knowledge graph - every table, view, dependency, and pipeline - so data becomes governed and integrated.
- **Agents** — A suite of ~15 domain-specific AI agents for healthcare tasks, including Healthcare Actuary (PMPM/PEPM and trend analysis), Claims Analyst (high-cost claimant and anomaly detection), Clinical Coding (ICD-10/DRG), Compliance Monitor (MLR and regulatory filing checks), and Data Engineer.
- **Value Lab** — Surfaces cost optimization and operational efficiency opportunities from an organization's healthcare data.

## Achievements

- Raised a $30M Series A in 2022 (total funding $40M+), backed by both Optum Ventures and Cigna Ventures.
- Reached its Series A milestone roughly six months after its prior round.
- Named to the NYC Digital Health 100 by NYCHBL (2022).
- Reports cutting vendor/solution integration time and cost by nearly 80% with Relay.
- Successfully pivoted from a TPA business (divested 2023) to an integration platform, then to an AI-native healthcare data platform.

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Flume evolved into an AI-native healthcare data platform, launching Ask, Estate, Value Lab, and a suite of ~15 domain-specific AI agents, with the tagline 'Healthcare Data Understood.'
- **2023-10** — Divested its third-party administrator (TPA) unit to focus fully on the data/integration platform.
- **2023-03** — Launched Flume Relay, a cloud-native integration platform to automate vendor and system integrations for payers.
- **2022-03** — Closed a $30M Series A led by Optum Ventures with Cigna Ventures, bringing total funding above $40M.

## Links

- Website: https://flumehealth.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flume-health
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/flumehealth
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/FlumeHealth/

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