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The $83 Million Fund That Turned Healthcare Operators Into a Sales Force
HC9 Ventures built its pitch around a simple diagnosis: healthcare startups rarely fail for lack of software alone. They fail in the maze between a promising product and the institutions that must buy, trust, and deploy it.
Surgo Health
Surgo Health is a Washington, DC-based Public Benefit Corporation building healthcare's universal 'Why Engine' - an AI-powered platform that decodes the beliefs, biases, and barriers driving human health decisions. By combining behavioral science, data science, and machine learning, its products (BehavioralPulse, Mosaic, Derin, and EchoHER) help life sciences companies, payers, providers, and public-sector organizations understand the people behind the patients and design more effective, human-centered care.
Dilpreet Sahota
Dilpreet Sahota is the co-founder and CEO of Trek Health, a San Mateo-based, AI-powered platform that turns the federal price-transparency data dump into a weapon healthcare providers can use to benchmark and negotiate their payer contracts. Founded in January 2022, Trek Health landed its first paying customer two months later, crossed 100 customers by late 2024, and raised an $11M Series A led by Madrona in 2025. A Stanford and UC Berkeley graduate who cut his teeth at Health IQ and Big Health, Sahota built Trek to attack a quietly brutal problem: identical medical services can be reimbursed at rates that vary 300-500%, and the smaller players almost never know it.
Wedge
Wedge is the operating system for healthcare AI agents - think Palantir, but for hospitals and health plans. Founded in 2025 and backed by Y Combinator (S25), Wedge helps healthcare organizations deploy, govern, and scale AI agents that automate back-office work like medical records retrieval, claims management, payment reconciliation, and medical coding. With forward-deployed engineering embedded inside health institutions, Wedge doesn't just sell software - it builds, monitors, and maintains AI products permanently inside its customers.