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Healthee
Healthee is an AI-powered health benefits platform that helps employees understand, navigate, and use their health insurance. Its virtual assistant, Zoe, answers plan-specific questions about coverage, providers, and costs in plain language across 50+ languages, while giving HR teams and brokers tools to cut administrative burden and healthcare spend. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York with R&D in Tel Aviv, Healthee serves 15,000+ customer organizations including Instacart, SiriusXM, and Celonis, and raised a $50M Series B in 2025.
Vantage
Vantage is a New York-based cloud cost management platform that helps engineering and finance teams analyze, report on, and reduce their cloud, SaaS, and AI spend. Founded in 2020 by former DigitalOcean and AWS product leaders, Vantage consolidates billing data from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and 20+ providers - including OpenAI and Anthropic - into a single self-service interface built for developers, not just FinOps specialists.
Arlo
Arlo is a New York-based health insurance startup rebuilding coverage for small and mid-sized businesses. It pairs AI-driven underwriting with value-based care and cost transparency to offer level-funded plans that make big-company benefits available to teams of roughly 10 to 150 employees, without the big-company admin. Founded in 2022 by former Palantir team lead Jan-Felix Schneider and ex-Finch engineering lead Karthik Bhaskara, Arlo raised a $4M seed round in 2025 led by Upfront Ventures and works with reinsurer Nationwide.
Garner Health
Garner Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company that analyzes billions of medical claims to identify the highest-performing doctors, then pairs that data with employer-funded financial incentives so employees can see top providers at a fraction of the out-of-pocket cost. Founded in 2019 by Nick Reber, the company combines a member-facing care navigation app and concierge with a provider analytics engine (Garner DataPro / Garner Research Agent) used by employers and health plans to cut healthcare spend while improving outcomes.
Sunfish
Sunfish is a Los Angeles fertility fintech that helps people pay for and navigate IVF, egg freezing, surrogacy and donor journeys. It pairs a loan marketplace and all-inclusive, flat-fee treatment bundles with a partial money-back guarantee, an AI model that predicts cycle cost and outcomes from patient biodata, and human and emotional support. Founded in 2022 by Angela Rastegar after her own isolating fertility experience, the company has supported over $200 million in loan applications across all 50 states and works with 70+ clinic locations.
Surest
Surest is a UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored health plan that strips out deductibles and coinsurance and instead shows members clear, upfront prices for care before they book it. Founded in 2016 as Bind in Minneapolis, the plan lets people compare providers and treatment options by cost and quality through an app, then pay a single known copay. Rebranded from Bind to Surest in 2022 after UnitedHealthcare took majority ownership, it has grown into the fastest-growing plan in UnitedHealthcare's book, serving close to one million members across employers from family businesses to the Fortune 100.
Meadow
Meadow is a New York-based fintech building modern financial engagement tools for higher education. Its platform helps colleges and universities communicate costs clearly, collect tuition, and support students from application through graduation - spanning a student-friendly net price calculator (Meadow Price), mobile billing and flexible payment plans (Meadow Pay), and compassionate balance recovery (Meadow Pre). Used by 300+ institutions, Meadow raised a $14M Series A led by Matrix Partners in April 2025.