Galia Rosen Schwarz runs one of the harder experiments in health technology: convincing hospitals, some of the most cautious buyers anywhere, that the knowledge already sitting in their systems can be made instantly useful. Her company, C8 Health, is now in more than 100 US hospitals, and the clinicians who use it keep coming back.
C8 Health is a clinical resource management platform. In plain terms, it takes the sprawl of policies, protocols, guidelines and educational material that every hospital accumulates and makes it findable, current, and delivered to the right person at the right moment. Rather than asking a nurse or an anesthesiologist to hunt through a shared drive, an intranet, and a stack of PDFs, C8 pushes the relevant guidance to them based on role, department, and even the shape of their day.
Schwarz is the cofounder and CEO. Her cofounder, Dr. Ido Zamberg, is an anesthesiologist and former software engineer who built the first version as a workaround for his own department, a way to give colleagues on-demand guidance without the usual scavenger hunt. Schwarz saw the market underneath that workaround and set about turning a clever internal tool into infrastructure a hospital could standardize on.
When knowledge is easy to access, clinicians refer to it constantly. This is key for improving care consistency.
— Galia Rosen Schwarz01 — The MethodOne hundred conversations before a single feature
The detail that says the most about how Schwarz works is what she did before building anything. She interviewed more than 100 health professionals across the United States and Switzerland. Not a survey, not a focus group with a moderator reading from a script, but sustained conversations about how clinicians actually find and use knowledge under pressure.
"I interviewed over 100 health professionals in the U.S. and Switzerland, and it became clear how massive this problem was," she has said. What emerged was a picture of waste that hides in plain sight: guidance that exists but cannot be found, protocols that are updated but never reach the people who need them, and the quiet cost of every clinician re-deriving an answer that the institution already knew.
02 — The ProductRight content, right person, right time
The design principle Schwarz repeats is deceptively simple. Access changes behavior. If a protocol takes five minutes and three logins to locate, clinicians rely on memory instead. If it takes one tap, they check it constantly. That single insight is the engine underneath the whole platform.
"Our platform ensures knowledge is always accessible, whether on mobile, desktop, or within Electronic Medical Records, so clinicians don't waste time hunting across 20 systems," she says. And rather than wait to be searched, C8 works the other way around: "We proactively push the right content to the right person, at the right time, based on their role, behavior, and what others like them are doing."
The results in the field are unusual for hospital software, a category where expensive tools routinely go unused. C8 Health reports adoption above 90% within three to six months of a deployment. At MetroHealth, the platform saw an average of 3.49 daily views per user and 90% mobile engagement, the kind of habitual use that most enterprise software never earns.
We proactively push the right content to the right person, at the right time, based on their role, behavior, and what others like them are doing.
— Galia Rosen Schwarz03 — The BackgroundFrom the Technion to the hospital floor
Schwarz did not arrive in health tech by accident. She holds a PhD in strategy from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, where her research examined R&D innovation inside high-technology firms, and she served as a visiting professor at NYU Stern School of Business. The academic thread, how organizations create and move knowledge, runs straight into what C8 Health does for a living.
Before founding the company she spent more than two decades in medtech and AI, mostly in business development and go-to-market roles. Along the way she was involved in a $220 million acquisition at Discotech Medical Technologies and helped guide Compugen toward an IPO and partnerships with names like Pfizer and Novartis. That mix, the researcher's instinct for how knowledge behaves and the operator's experience of scaling companies, is unusual, and it shows in how she frames the business less as a document tool and more as quality infrastructure.
04 — The BackingCapital and a widening map
C8 Health has raised roughly $18 million to date. The most recent milestone is a $12 million Series A led by Team8, with participation from 10D and Vertex Ventures, capital earmarked for expanding the team, sharpening the product, and scaling hospital deployments. The customer roster reads like a tour of American academic medicine: Mount Sinai, UCSF Health, Brigham & Women's, Dartmouth Health, MetroHealth and UTMB among them.
The company's ambitions are not confined to the US. C8 Health already runs across five Swiss hospitals covering roughly 13,000 employees, and Schwarz talks about extending the platform beyond the hospital walls into outpatient and urgent care settings. The framing is deliberate. She wants C8 to be foundational plumbing for healthcare quality management, not a single-department convenience.
05 — The RecognitionA rising profile
The outside world has started to notice. In 2025 Schwarz was named a finalist for the Stevie Award for Most Innovative Woman of the Year in Healthcare, and she landed at #36 on TechRound's 50 Women in Tech list. The honors track a simple through-line in her work: she picked one of healthcare's most stubborn, least glamorous problems, the gap between best practice and actual practice, and built a company whose entire reason for existing is to close it.
What makes the story worth watching is not the funding or the awards but the discipline behind them. Schwarz started with questions, listened to a hundred answers, and built only what those answers demanded. In an industry crowded with software nobody opens twice, that is why clinicians keep opening C8.