Iris Telehealth is an Austin, Texas-based telepsychiatry company that partners with hospitals, health systems, community mental health centers, and federally qualified health centers to deliver virtual behavioral health care. Founded in 2013 on the belief that every community deserves timely access to quality mental health care, Iris supplies vetted psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and licensed therapists on both scheduled and on-demand bases, plus an AI-enabled analytics platform. It is the only virtual mental health company to earn The Joint Commission's behavioral health care accreditation twice, and it works with roughly 200 partner organizations across the United States.
Gratia Health is an Austin-based health-tech startup that turns everyday clinical work into measurable results. Its Workforce Activation Platform uses behavioral-science-designed incentives, real-time recognition, and gamification - points, badges, streaks, and patient shoutouts - to help hospitals keep nurses engaged, cover shifts, and cut spending on expensive contract labor. Emerged from stealth in November 2023 with seed funding led by JumpStart Capital and a launch partnership with ScionHealth's 70-plus specialty hospitals.
Pascal Metrics is a Washington, DC and Austin-based healthcare data analytics company that turns real-time electronic health record data into clinically validated adverse-event outcomes. As a U.S.-certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO #0047), it operates the Pascal Platform - anchored by trigger-based surveillance and machine-learning models - to help hospitals and health systems detect, predict, and reduce preventable patient harm. Founded in 2007 and named after Blaise Pascal, the 'founder of risk management,' the company claims one of the largest validated adverse-event outcomes datasets in the world.
Sandy Health is a San Francisco healthtech company building an AI-powered operations platform that acts as the financial layer for healthcare. It connects scheduling, intake, eligibility verification, prior authorization, an AI clinical scribe, and revenue intelligence into one system so providers can predict reimbursement before, during, and after every visit. Founded by cancer survivor and MIT-trained engineer Diego Saavedra-Kloss, Sandy targets the administrative friction that drains time and revenue from patient care.
Shyld AI builds autonomous, edge-native devices that watch hospital rooms with computer vision and sensors, then fire targeted UV-C light to kill pathogens the moment a room is empty or a high-touch surface is used. Founded by brothers Mohammad and Morteza Noshad, the Silicon Valley company sells an 'Active AI' platform to U.S. health systems that has shown a 93% reduction in environmental contamination in a peer-reviewed Stanford study.
AmplifyMD is a Los Gatos, California-based health technology company that runs an EHR-integrated, AI-enabled multispecialty virtual care platform. Founded in 2019 by Meena Mallipeddi and Anand Nathan, it connects hospitals and health systems - especially rural and community facilities - to a national network of board-certified specialists across more than 15 fields, helping providers launch and scale telehealth programs for needs like stroke, psychiatry, hospitalist coverage, and infectious disease. The company supports 400+ active programs across all 50 states and powers more than 220,000 consults a year.
Qualified Health is a Palo Alto-based public benefit company building the enterprise AI operating layer for hospitals and health systems. Its platform unifies clinical, operational, and financial workflows under a single governed layer - integrating with core health-system data once, offering pre-validated AI solutions plus builder tools, and adding real-time governance, monitoring, and outcomes tracking. Founded in 2024 by physician-technologist Justin Norden and a team of former health-system executives and AI leaders, it helps systems move past pilots toward scaled, safe, measurable AI. The company has raised $155M to date, including a $125M Series B in March 2026, and serves more than 500,000 users across systems representing roughly 7% of U.S. hospital revenue.
Jefferson Health is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit academic health system that traces its roots to 1825. After absorbing Einstein Healthcare Network (2021) and Lehigh Valley Health Network (2024), it operates more than 30 hospitals and 700-plus care sites across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, paired with Thomas Jefferson University and a roughly 400,000-member health plan. It is now one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, with about $15 billion in annual revenue and roughly 65,000 employees.
Avant-garde Health is a Boston-based healthcare data analytics company whose CareMeasurement platform helps hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and physicians measure the true cost, quality and processes of surgical care - then turn those insights into measurable savings and better patient outcomes. Founded in 2014 out of value-based care research at Harvard Business School, the company applies Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) across EMR, financial, claims and patient-reported outcomes data to reveal what was previously invisible inside the operating room and the care pathway around it.