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The Quiet Machine Behind One in Three American Adults
Quest Diagnostics is easy to mistake for a chain of blood-draw centers. Its real product is a national system that moves specimens, data and decisions through American healthcare at unusual scale.
The $16.3 Billion Company Quietly Running Modern Medicine’s Back Office
IQVIA sits in the machinery between a molecule and a medicine cabinet - running trials, organizing health data and helping drugmakers decide what happens next. Now it is turning that unusually broad view of healthcare into an agentic AI platform.
HCA Healthcare Built a Hospital Network Big Enough to Learn From Itself
The Nashville company turned a 1968 experiment in shared hospital resources into a vast care network. Its real edge is what happens when local medicine, centralized operations and 47 million annual patient encounters begin teaching one another.
Ben Texter
From an electric-car startup to Blue State Digital to a decade building Digital Health Strategies, Ben Texter has made a career of turning complicated systems into clearer human journeys.
Bruno Lempernesse
Bruno Lempernesse is the CEO of MDClone, an Israeli-founded healthcare data platform that lets organizations explore and share sensitive patient data using synthetic data that preserves privacy. A 25-year veteran of healthcare technology, data science, and life sciences, he joined MDClone as President of North America in September 2024 and stepped up to Chief Executive Officer in 2025. Before MDClone he was CEO of Carevive, a cancer-care and real-world-studies company acquired by Health Catalyst in 2024, and earlier spent two decades at Cegedim building its data and research business, plus leadership roles at SHYFT Analytics and Acorn AI (a Medidata company). He is an early pioneer of longitudinal patient data drawn from electronic medical records across Europe and the United States.
AcuityMD
AcuityMD is a Boston-based commercial intelligence platform built specifically for the medical device (MedTech) industry. It translates large volumes of healthcare claims and procedure data into intuitive workflows, AI-powered insights, and recommendations that help medical device sales and marketing teams find high-value physicians and care sites, size and segment markets, manage territories, and accelerate product adoption. Founded in 2019 by former MedTech and consulting operators, the company serves hundreds of device makers - including a majority of the largest MedTech firms - and raised an $80M Series C in 2026 at a near-$1B valuation.
Briya
Briya is a healthcare data company that connects hospitals, health systems, and researchers to life sciences organizations through a secure, privacy-preserving data exchange network. Its blockchain-secured infrastructure standardizes electronic health records and keeps data at its source, while its flagship product, Briya AIRE, is a clinical-grade conversational AI research platform that lets scientists query and analyze real-world medical data in plain language. Founded in 2020 by David Lazerson and Guy Tish, Briya spans a global network of more than 120 million patient records and aims to accelerate medical and epidemiological research without the friction of traditional data integration.
Flume Health
Flume Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company building operational infrastructure that connects the fragmented data ecosystem behind health plans. Founded in 2017 by Cedric Kovacs-Johnson and Vineeth Bhuvanagiri, Flume gives payers, third-party administrators, and vendors a way to move, translate, and make sense of healthcare data. It started as a plan administrator, pivoted to the Relay integration platform, and has since evolved into an AI-native data platform - mapping enterprise data estates into a living knowledge graph and running domain-specific AI agents so non-technical teams can query and act on healthcare data in plain language.
H1
H1 is a New York-based healthcare data and technology company that maps the world's healthcare professionals, clinical trials and provider networks into a single platform. Founded in 2017 by Ariel Katz and Ian Sax, H1 aggregates billions of data points - peer-reviewed publications, clinical trial records, medical claims and provider directories - so pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, health-plan and digital-health customers can find the right doctors, run better clinical trials, engage key opinion leaders and keep provider information accurate. Its stated mission is to create a healthier future by making healthcare information and evidence-based medicine accessible globally.
Integral Privacy Technologies
Integral is a privacy engineering company that turns sensitive real-world data - starting with HIPAA-regulated healthcare records - into compliant, AI-ready datasets. Founded in 2022 by Shubh Sinha and John Kuhn, it pairs automated de-identification and continuous risk assessment with embedded statisticians and privacy engineers (its Forward Deployed Privacy Services) so enterprises and AI labs can use regulated data quickly without violating privacy law. The company positions itself as an independent privacy layer for the real-world data economy and has raised roughly $24.9M to date, including an $18M Series A closed in July 2026.
Protege
Protege is a New York-based AI data platform that connects owners of private, real-world data - hospitals, media libraries, motion-capture studios and more - with the AI labs and enterprises that need it to train, fine-tune and evaluate models. It licenses and curates proprietary datasets under strict privacy, IP and compliance controls, so data holders get paid and provenance is preserved. Founded in 2024 by Bobby Samuels and Travis May, Protege has assembled access to billions of clinical notes, hundreds of millions of medical images, and hundreds of thousands of hours of video and audio, positioning itself as core infrastructure for the post-web era of AI development.
Verato
Verato is a healthcare-focused identity data company that helps organizations answer a deceptively hard question: who is who? Founded in 2012 and based in McLean, Virginia, Verato pioneered Referential Matching - a technique that compares fragmented records against a proprietary reference database spanning the U.S. population with up to 30 years of historical demographic data. Its cloud platform, now sold as Verato MDM Cloud, links and cleans patient and member records across hospitals, health systems, payers, life sciences firms, and government agencies, reducing duplicate records, claims denials, and safety risks while enabling a single 360-degree view of each person.
Baffle, Inc.
Baffle, Inc. is a Santa Clara data security company that builds a no-code data protection platform - combining encryption, tokenization and masking - so enterprises can protect sensitive data across databases, cloud data warehouses and GenAI pipelines without rewriting application code.
Cipherome, Inc.
Cipherome is a San Jose-based clinical genomics and bioinformatics company on a mission to find the drug that works for each individual. Its no-code platform COMPASS lets researchers transform, query, and analyze massive clinical and genomic datasets - like the 500,000-participant UK Biobank - without writing code, while its Xentinel platform uses explainable AI to predict and reduce adverse drug reactions. Backed by roughly $16-23M through a Series B, the 12-person team pairs Silicon Valley software with Seoul National University biomedical-informatics research.
Shubh Sinha
Shubh Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Integral Privacy Technologies, a San Francisco company that certifies, transforms, and activates privacy-regulated data (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA) for healthcare and other regulated industries. Integral compresses compliance workflows that once took months into hours. Before Integral, Sinha led regulated-data product work at LiveRamp. He is a Purdue-trained computer engineer, an angel investor, and a Forbes Technology Council member. In July 2026 the company raised its Series A, bringing total funding to about $25M.
Trip Hofer
Trip Hofer is the CEO of Redox, the healthcare data interoperability company that moved more than 15 billion healthcare transactions across 12,000-plus organizations and 90-plus EHR systems in a single year. A near-25-year veteran of healthcare who started at Booz Allen and the Washington, D.C. mayor's office, he ran the largest mental-health provider in the United States as CEO of Optum Behavioral Solutions and sold virtual-care company AbleTo to Optum in 2020 before taking Redox's helm in November 2023. He is also a Venture Partner at .406 Ventures.
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.
evermore
evermore (formerly Soda Health) is a healthcare technology company that administers Smart Benefits, connecting people to the products and services they need - healthy food, OTC medications, transportation and more - when they need them. Its Smart Benefits Operating System adjudicates purchases at the item level in real time across more than 70,000 retail locations, helping Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial payers manage supplemental benefits, close care gaps and improve outcomes. The company rebranded from Soda Health to evermore in October 2025 after closing an oversubscribed $50M Series B led by General Catalyst.
Foxtrot Services
Foxtrot Services is a Washington, D.C.-based, Palantir-certified professional services firm that designs, implements and scales Palantir Foundry and AIP solutions for enterprise, startup and government customers. Founded and led by former Palantir operators, the team specializes in moving organizations past stalled AI pilots into production - through AI use-case acceleration, MVP development, data engineering and operational 'control tower' solutions across security, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, energy and global supply chain.
HealthVerity
HealthVerity is a Philadelphia-based healthcare data technology company that runs what it calls the nation's largest privacy-protected healthcare and consumer data ecosystem. Through its Marketplace and a framework it brands IPGE (Identity, Privacy, Governance, Exchange), it lets pharmaceutical companies, payers, and government agencies discover, license, link, and synchronize de-identified data on more than 340 million U.S. individuals to build longitudinal patient journeys and generate real-world evidence - all in a HIPAA-compliant manner.
Andrew Kress
Andrew Kress is the co-founder and CEO of HealthVerity, the Philadelphia company that built one of the largest real-world healthcare data ecosystems and the technology to link, govern and exchange it without exposing patient identities. An English major from Yale who spent his career inside the plumbing of healthcare data - running SDI Health, then leading Healthcare Value Solutions at IMS Health - he started HealthVerity in 2014 to make fragmented, privacy-bound health data usable. The company raised $100M in Series D funding in 2021 led by Durable Capital Partners. Kress also serves on the boards of Philadelphia cultural institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Sikka.ai
Sikka.ai is a San Jose-based AI and API platform for the retail healthcare market - dentistry, veterinary, optometry, audiology, chiropractic and more. Its ONE API connects to over 400 practice management systems and roughly 96% of the market, giving developers and practices a single integration point to pull patient data, post payments, and tap 300+ KPIs. Built on de-identified data from tens of thousands of practices over two decades, Sikka also ships practice-facing analytics (Optimizer) and DentalLLM, a dental-specific large language model. Founded in 2004 by Vijay Sikka, the company processes large transaction volumes daily across more than 35,000 practice installations.
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.
Dyania Health
Dyania Health builds Synapsis AI, a medically trained large language model that reads unstructured electronic medical records - physician notes, pathology reports, imaging notes - and answers complex clinical questions with roughly 95% accuracy in under a second per record. Deployed inside health systems' own firewalls, the platform automates clinical trial pre-screening, chart abstraction, observational studies, and registry reporting, turning weeks of manual nurse and physician chart review into minutes. Founded in 2020 by former Morgan Stanley dealmaker Eirini Schlosser and headquartered in Jersey City with a team in Athens, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2024 and counts Cleveland Clinic among its earliest enterprise partners.
Dan Riskin
Dan Riskin is a physician-entrepreneur, trauma surgeon, and healthcare AI executive who founded Verantos in 2015 to generate high-validity real-world evidence from messy clinical data. A serial innovator who began coding at age 5 and sold software at 12, Riskin holds an MD from Boston University and an MBA from MIT, is board-certified in four specialties, and serves as Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford. His prior company Health Fidelity was acquired for more than $150 million. Today, Verantos powers regulatory and reimbursement decisions for major pharmaceutical companies by turning fragmented EHR data into research-grade evidence at scale.
Rich Waller
Rich Waller is President and CEO of WellStack, a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare data platform that helps provider and payer organizations build a unified data ecosystem for AI, analytics, and population health management. A 20-year veteran of healthcare technology, Waller co-founded VisiQuate - a healthcare revenue cycle analytics company - before joining WellStack to lead its expansion into enterprise healthcare data infrastructure. He is known for his client-centered philosophy and belief that growth strategy is a team sport.
Todd Gottula
Todd Gottula is CEO and Co-Founder of Clarify Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare analytics platform that maps over 300 million patient journeys and delivers 18 billion-plus AI-predicted precision insights. A Caltech-trained chemical engineer who spent over a decade as EVP and CTO at Advent Software (acquired by SS&C Technologies for $2.7B), Gottula co-founded Clarify in 2015 to bring the data intelligence of banking and consumer industries into healthcare. The company has raised over $401M in total funding, including a $150M Series D in 2022, and earned the #1 KLAS ranking in Data Analytics Platforms for Payers.