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InsiteOne Put Medical Images in the Cloud Before the Cloud Had a Name
The Connecticut company bet on off-site medical-image archiving in 1999, survived two giant owners, then returned with a broader plan: make radiology data portable, resilient and useful without forcing hospitals into another proprietary corner.
Dashlabs.ai
Dashlabs.ai is a Manila-based health-tech company (YC W21) that builds end-to-end, cloud-based software for medical laboratories and clinics. Its DIY laboratory information system connects lab machines, patient records, billing, and results into one platform, and it rose to prominence powering the Philippine Red Cross through millions of COVID-19 RT-PCR tests. Today it serves diagnostic labs, hospitals, dialysis centers, veterinary clinics, and corporate health programs across the Philippines.
Braid Health
Braid Health is a San Francisco health-tech company building an FDA-cleared, AI-powered diagnostic collaboration platform for medical imaging. Founded in 2018 by Apple and Twitter alumni Kevin Quennesson and Alessandro Sabatelli, Braid pairs AI imaging copilots with board-certified radiologists to deliver faster, lower-cost reads of MRI, CT, ultrasound and X-ray studies. It serves urgent care networks, health systems and retail clinics, and in 2026 launched a direct-to-patient second-opinion service that offers expert radiologist re-reads for $199.
EchoPixel, Inc.
EchoPixel is a Silicon Valley medical visualization company that turns ordinary CT, MRI and ultrasound scans into life-size, interactive 4D holograms of a patient's own anatomy. Its FDA-cleared True3D platform and Holographic Therapy Guidance (HTG) let surgeons and interventional cardiologists reach in and manipulate a digital twin of a heart or organ - no headset or glasses required - to plan and guide complex, minimally invasive procedures.
Alara Imaging
Alara Imaging is a San Francisco healthcare technology company building a private compute platform for radiology. Its flagship product, the Alara Medical Imaging Gateway, is edge-orchestration software that sits inside a hospital and moves imaging data securely and bidirectionally between facilities and the cloud. Founded out of UCSF research, Alara serves as a CMS measure steward, giving health systems a HITRUST-certified, HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant way to calculate and report new radiology quality measures - including a CMS-endorsed measure to standardize CT radiation doses and reduce avoidable cancer risk.
Nate Mazonson
Nate Mazonson is the co-founder and CEO of Alara Imaging (Alara Gateway), a San Francisco health-tech startup building a secure gateway-as-a-service that moves radiology data between hospitals and the cloud in real time. A Dartmouth-trained environmental engineer turned Stanford MBA, he spent five years in venture capital at Cambridge Associates and Kleiner Perkins before co-founding the vertical-farming company Plenty in 2015 and then Alara in 2019. His through-line: take antiquated, high-stakes infrastructure - first food, now medical imaging - and rebuild it as modern, machine-learning-ready software.
Eden
Eden is a Latin American health-tech company building the leading cloud PACS/RIS platform for radiology - storage, viewing, AI-assisted reading, and digital delivery of medical imaging used by hospitals and clinics across 17 countries. Founded by Julián Ríos Cantú, who first became known as the teenager behind the EVA breast-cancer-detecting bra, Eden processes millions of medical images a day and has raised roughly $44M total, including a $10M round led by Sierra Ventures and a Series A in October 2025.
Julián Ríos Cantú
Julián Ríos Cantú is the co-founder and CEO of Eden, the leading cloud-native radiology operating system in Latin America. Motivated by his mother's battle with breast cancer, he began building health technology at age 16, went on to become the youngest-ever winner of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at 18, earned a Thiel Fellowship, and went through Y Combinator in 2018. Today, Eden processes over 13 million diagnostic studies annually across 18 countries for more than 2,200 medical institutions, backed by Sierra Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Kaszek, and notable angel investors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, and Tony Robbins.