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RV Healthcare Solutions
RV Healthcare Solutions (RVH Solutions), which operates the Teamwrks technology suite, is a New York-based healthcare technology company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help hospitals and health systems improve financial and quality performance without reducing staff. Grown out of Workforce Prescriptions and backed by Rizk Ventures and Vizient, Teamwrks turns operational data into department-level targets, AI-driven root-cause insights and actionable workflows - typically deployed in days rather than months.
Expanso
Expanso is a Seattle-based distributed data processing company built on its open-source Bacalhau project. Instead of shipping raw data to a central cloud, Expanso runs lightweight agents that filter, transform, and govern data at its source - across edge devices, on-prem systems, and multiple clouds. The 'Compute Over Data' approach cuts egress and storage costs, keeps sensitive data in place for compliance, and speeds up pipelines feeding analytics and AI. Founded in 2022 by former Google, AWS, and Microsoft engineers, it raised a $7.5M seed round in 2023.
Grapevine Technologies
Grapevine Technologies is a healthcare procurement software company that acts as an intelligent purchasing agent for medical buyers. Founded in 2021 out of the University of Pennsylvania by Luka Yancopoulos and William Danon, Grapevine grew out of their pandemic-era supply venture and now helps specialty practices and physician groups compare vendors, cut ordering time, and reduce medical supply spend - in some categories by more than 50%.
Prefix
Prefix is a New York-based facility management platform for multi-site restaurant and retail operators. It acts as the connective layer between brands and local service technicians - coordinating on-demand and preventive repairs across HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing and electrical, and managing the full job lifecycle from request to invoice. With AI-powered vendor management and 24/7 support, Prefix says it delivers roughly 3x efficiency gains and 15%+ cost savings for the nearly 2,000 locations it serves.
Tele911
Tele911 is a telemedicine company that diverts low-acuity 911 calls away from crowded emergency rooms by connecting patients on scene with board-certified emergency physicians over video, on average within about 40 seconds. Founded by physician-entrepreneur Dr. Ramon Lizardo, the company equips paramedics and medics as the doctor's hands, eyes, and ears so patients can be treated in place instead of being transported to a hospital - reducing unnecessary ambulance trips, ED visits, and cost. The model has reached millions of lives across multiple states and positions itself as the nation's leading ER-diversion and virtual emergency department solution.
Clarasight
Clarasight is a New York-based AI platform for enterprise travel and expense. It unifies fragmented data from travel management companies, expense tools, corporate cards and HR systems into a single, AI-ready model, then helps teams automate workflows, forecast budgets, negotiate with suppliers, enforce policy and report on emissions - without ripping out the tools companies already use. Founded in 2021 as Climate Club with a sustainability mission, it rebranded to Clarasight in 2024 as it broadened from carbon planning into the broader operating system for travel and expense leaders. The company raised an $11.5M Series A led by AlleyCorp in April 2026.
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.
Rory Sutherland's Pessimistic (and Brilliant) Predictions for 2026
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK and behavioral economics provocateur, delivers a characteristically contrarian set of predictions for 2026. He argues that AI will initially be weaponized by tech companies and consultants as a cost-reduction tool — what he calls the 'doorman fallacy' — stripping out human value while claiming efficiency wins. Drawing on the Austrian vs. Chicago schools of economics, the history of the electric motor, and a devastating critique of self-checkout tills, Sutherland maps out three phases of AI adoption and ends with a rallying cry to marketers: stop selling what you do, and start selling how you think.
Woz
Woz (WOZCODE) is a Claude Code plugin built by MIT engineers Ben Collins and Brad Eckert that cuts AI coding costs by 25-55% and speeds up most tasks by 30-40%. Instead of letting Claude Code burn tokens on bloated built-in file operations, WOZCODE replaces them with smarter, leaner alternatives - three specialized agents (code, explore, plan) that do more with less. It installs in two commands, runs locally with no data exfiltration, and works alongside your existing Claude subscription. Backed by Y Combinator (W25) and a $6M seed round, Woz is building the efficiency layer that makes AI-assisted development economically viable at scale.