# Penguin Ai

> Penguin Ai is a healthcare-native agentic AI platform built to chip away at the roughly $1 trillion in administrative waste choking U.S. healthcare. Founded by former chief data officers from UnitedHealthcare, Kaiser Permanente and Optum, the company ships Gwen, a build-your-own AI environment that turns plain-language prompts into containerized digital workers for prior auth, claims, coding and payment integrity.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Fawad Butt (Co-Founder & CEO), Kishore Ayyadevara (Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer), Srinivas Raju (Co-Founder & Head of Engineering), Vamsi Bhandaru (Co-Founder & Head of Technical Implementation)
- **Team size:** ~56 employees
- **Products:** Gwen, Pre-built Digital Workers, Healthcare LLM APIs
- **Notable:** Raised $29.7M in venture funding led by Greycroft in September 2025, Launched Gwen, a build-your-own healthcare AI platform, in April 2026, Shipped 100+ pre-built clinical digital workers at launch

## Products & services

- **Gwen** — Build-your-own AI platform for healthcare operations. Plain-language prompts become containerized digital workers in under 25 minutes.
- **Pre-built Digital Workers** — 100+ clinical skills covering HCC retrospective coding, prior authorization intake, clinical documentation summarization, and eligibility verification.
- **Healthcare LLM APIs** — Pre-trained healthcare language models accessible via API for medical coding, claims adjudication, appeals, risk adjustment, chart summarization, and payment integrity.

## Achievements

- Raised $29.7M in venture funding led by Greycroft in September 2025
- Launched Gwen, a build-your-own healthcare AI platform, in April 2026
- Shipped 100+ pre-built clinical digital workers at launch

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Launched Gwen, a build-your-own AI platform for healthcare operations.
- **2025-09** — Closed $29.7M in venture funding ($25M Series A led by Greycroft).

## Links

- Website: https://penguinai.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/penguinai-co

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Last updated: 2026-05-19