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Exactrx
Exactrx is a Nashville- and New York-based healthcare AI company that automates revenue cycle management for ambulatory surgery centers and outpatient providers. Its platform reads the operative note, codes the case, validates each charge against more than 80,000 payer rules with a tri-engine system, and generates a submission-ready claim in under 30 seconds - leaving humans to review and submit. Founded in 2024 by Athena Doshi and a clinician-and-engineer team, the company positions itself as access-to-care infrastructure rather than billing software, aiming to recover the revenue that denials and documentation gaps quietly drain from surgical facilities.
Athena Doshi
Athena Doshi is the founder and CEO of Exactrx, a Nashville-based healthtech company building AI-native infrastructure that helps ambulatory surgery centers stop costly day-of cancellations and recover lost revenue. A two-time digital health founder who once turned down a medical school acceptance, she pairs a physiology and neuroscience background from UC San Diego with hands-on product work at Omada Health and Heartbeat Health. Her platform pairs autonomous, embedded checklists with a payer-rules engine running more than 80,000 rules, and she was named to Inc.'s 2025 Female Founders 500 list.
Samuel Ethiopia
Samuel Ethiopia is the CEO and co-founder of DocSpera, a Silicon Valley surgical coordination platform used by thousands of surgeons and 300-plus health systems to synchronize the messy stretch between a surgical decision and a patient's recovery. A chemical engineer turned strategy consultant turned operator, he carried a Kellogg MMM dual degree and stints at Dow, Eli Lilly, PwC's Strategy&, and Yahoo into the operating room's back office, where he now bets that real-time, AI-driven data can make surgery run on time. He also co-founded The Par Fund to back underrepresented entrepreneurs.
DocSpera
DocSpera is a Sunnyvale-based healthtech company that builds an AI-driven surgical coordination platform connecting surgeons, care teams, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and medical-device partners across the full episode of care. Its HIPAA-compliant web and mobile software automates pre-surgical scheduling, patient readiness and prioritization, secure case and image sharing, and surgical inventory and supply-chain management - reducing cancellations, backlogs and wasted inventory while generating real-world evidence on surgical outcomes.
Avant-garde Health
Avant-garde Health is a Boston-based healthcare data analytics company whose CareMeasurement platform helps hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and physicians measure the true cost, quality and processes of surgical care - then turn those insights into measurable savings and better patient outcomes. Founded in 2014 out of value-based care research at Harvard Business School, the company applies Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) across EMR, financial, claims and patient-reported outcomes data to reveal what was previously invisible inside the operating room and the care pathway around it.