Acentra Health is a McLean, Virginia healthcare technology and clinical services company formed in 2023 from the merger of CNSI and Kepro. It builds Medicaid and Medicare systems, care management platforms, and quality-oversight services for state and federal government health programs, combining public-sector software with clinical staff who review authorizations, assessments, and appeals. Backed by The Carlyle Group, it employs roughly 3,300-3,400 people across the U.S. and India.
Dakotah Rice is the co-founder and CEO of Harper, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage based in San Francisco and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch. After a Wall Street run through Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, and Coatue Management, Rice built and wound down the fintech startup Poolit before returning to the insurance industry his family worked in. In February 2026 Harper announced a combined seed and Series A of roughly $47M led by Emergence Capital, reported as the largest publicly disclosed Series A ever raised by a Black founder. Harper matches small- and mid-sized businesses with 160+ carriers and serves thousands of customers across dozens of states.
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.
Terry Heath is the founder and CEO of Sciens Building Solutions, a Pleasanton, California-based fire and life safety integrator he built from a whiteboard plan in 2016 into one of the largest independent platforms of its kind in the United States. A former Royal Navy electrical engineer who came to America via Siemens, Heath has stitched together more than sixteen acquisitions and now runs a roughly 1,800-person company headquartered in the East Bay.