employer-benefits
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The Cigna Group
The insurance card is only the front door. Behind it sits a $274.9 billion machine spanning pharmacy benefits, specialty medicine, behavioral care and digital health - built to make a fragmented system behave more like one business.
VSP Vision
VSP Vision is the largest not-for-profit vision benefits and eye care company in the United States, founded in 1955 by a group of Northern California optometrists who pioneered the idea of prepaid vision insurance. Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California, VSP now operates a vertically integrated portfolio spanning vision insurance, eyewear brands (Marchon, Altair, Marcolin), lens technology (VSP Optics), retail (Visionworks, Eyeconic), and practice-management software (Eyefinity). Backed by roughly 85 million members and a network of tens of thousands of independent eye doctors, the company frames its mission as empowering human potential through sight, and funds one of the industry's largest charitable arms, VSP Eyes of Hope.
Truveris
Truveris is a healthcare technology company that helps employers, benefits consultants and plan sponsors buy and oversee pharmacy benefits. Founded in 2009 and based in Wilmington, Delaware, it runs a competitive procurement marketplace connecting buyers with 60-plus pharmacy benefit managers, analyzes 100% of pharmacy claims to police PBM contract performance, and layers on independent audits and member engagement tools. The company says clients typically see roughly 20% improvement on pharmacy contract costs.
Vivvi
Vivvi is a New York-based child care and early learning company that partners with employers to make high-quality care affordable and flexible for working families. Founded in 2018 by Charles Bonello and Ben Newton, it operates a growing network of early learning campuses for children from six weeks to five years old, and layers on employer-sponsored offerings such as backup care, in-home care, virtual tutoring, and its Care Cash reimbursement program. The model turns child care into a recruiting and retention benefit for companies while giving parents full-day, year-round, research-based programs.
Santosh Vallabhaneni
Santosh Vallabhaneni is the co-founder and CEO of Rovi Health, a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup building text-first, AI-enabled healthcare for employees. Patients get care over text or video while AI agents steer them to high-value, in-network providers and handle scheduling, cutting employer health spend by 10-20%. Before Rovi he was GM of Cedar's patient affordability products and an early go-to-market leader at AngelList, and he is a licensed health insurance broker. He founded the company with his brother Tarun, the CTO.
Nick Reber
Nick Reber is the founder and CEO of Garner Health, a New York based health tech company that mines more than 60 billion medical claims records to find the highest-performing doctors and pays patients to choose them. A former Bridgewater Associates partner and Oscar Health leader, Reber turned a quantitative investing playbook on the messiest market in America, building a business that helps employers cut benefits costs without changing plans or networks. In 2026 Garner raised $100 million in Series E funding at a reported $2.74 billion valuation.
Buoy Health
Buoy Health is a Boston-based digital health company that built an AI-powered symptom checker and care-navigation platform. Founded in 2014 out of Harvard Innovation Labs, Buoy lets people describe how they feel in a chat that mimics a conversation with a doctor, then steers them toward the right next step - from self-care at home to the ER - using an algorithm trained on thousands of medical studies. The company sells its navigation platform to employers, health plans and providers while keeping the consumer symptom checker free.
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.
Virta Health
Virta Health is a digital health company on a mission to reverse type 2 diabetes and obesity in 100 million people. Founded in 2014 by Sami Inkinen, Dr. Stephen Phinney, and Dr. Jeff Volek, Virta pairs a nutrition-first, low-carbohydrate clinical protocol with a Continuous Remote Care platform - a mobile app, dedicated physicians and health coaches, and AI-driven personalization - to lower blood sugar, cut medications, and produce durable weight loss without relying on costly drugs or surgery. Sold to employers and health plans on a value-based, outcomes-guaranteed model, Virta has treated over 100,000 members and surpassed $160M in annualized revenue.
SurgiQuality
SurgiQuality is a Rockville, Maryland health-tech company built by a practicing surgeon to fix the information gap patients face when they are told they need an operation. Its platform brings medical records and imaging to the cloud, routes them to a network of 45,000+ surgeons for independent written opinions, and uses proprietary AI (SurgiGPT) to score surgeons on risk-adjusted outcomes pulled from de-identified EMR data. The goal: help patients pick the right surgeon and the right approach, avoid unnecessary surgery, and help employers lower the cost of surgical benefits.
Angle Health
Angle Health is a San Francisco-based, AI-native health insurance platform for small and mid-sized employers. Founded in 2019 by ex-Palantir engineers, it combines carrier, third-party administrator, and underwriting functions into one stack, letting brokers quote level-funded plans in minutes and giving members a mobile-first care experience.
Hello Heart
Hello Heart is a Menlo Park-based digital health company exclusively focused on cardiovascular health. Founded in 2013, it offers an AI-powered mobile app paired with a connected blood pressure monitor and smart pill box that helps members understand, track, and improve their heart health. Deployed through employers, health plans, and Medicare Advantage programs, Hello Heart has served users at 150+ Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. Independent peer-reviewed studies - including a JAMA study of 28,000+ participants - show that 84% of high-risk users reduced blood pressure over three years, with average medical cost savings exceeding $1,700 per enrolled member per year. The company has raised $148.5 million in total funding, most recently a $70 million Series D in May 2022.
Maayan Cohen
Maayan Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hello Heart, a Menlo Park-based digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on cardiovascular health. A former Israeli tank platoon commander turned strategy consultant, she built Hello Heart from a 2013 startup into a platform covering 1.6+ million members across Fortune 500 employers, backed by $148.5M in funding from investors including Khosla Ventures, IVP, and Stripes. Named to CNBC Changemakers 2024 and Inc. Female Founders 500 in 2025, Cohen is recognized for her empathy-driven leadership style - including managing her company from Tel Aviv bomb shelters during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war while providing housing and support for both Israeli and Palestinian staff.
Tylon Wang
Tylon Wang (Ty Wang) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Angle Health, an AI-native health insurance platform that builds custom, full-service health plans for small and medium-sized businesses across 44 states. A former Palantir deployment strategist and Y Combinator alumnus, Wang founded Angle Health in 2019 after watching his immigrant parents navigate a healthcare system that wasn't built for people like them. Under his leadership, Angle Health has raised nearly $200 million in funding — including a $134 million Series B in December 2025 — and grown revenue 26x since its 2022 Series A, now serving more than 3,000 employers.
Kate Torgersen
Kate Torgersen is the founder and CEO of Milk Stork, the world's first breast milk shipping service for traveling professionals. After lugging 26 pounds of milk home from a business trip while nursing infant twins, she co-invested $25,000 with her father and built a logistics platform now serving 850+ companies, having shipped more than 7.5 million ounces of breast milk across 112 countries. A former 18-year Clif Bar communications executive with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Kate turned a deeply personal frustration into a category-defining company backed by Backstage Capital and named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list.