Colavo Ground is a Seoul-founded software company behind ColavoSalon, a free mobile-first CRM and booking platform for independent beauty professionals and salons. It bundles online booking, an appointment calendar, automated multi-channel reminders, loyalty and package tools, staff commissions and sales analytics into one app, aiming to cut no-shows and improve client retention. Colavo says it is used by well over 100,000 beauty pros across dozens of countries, and has raised roughly $3.77M, with a Series A round in 2021.
Vital Interaction is an Austin, Texas healthcare technology company that blends patient data, business intelligence, and workflow automation to help medical practices communicate with patients across text, voice, and email. Founded in 2009, its platform automates appointment reminders, recalls, reactivations, referrals, and surveys so practices can cut no-shows, close care gaps, and re-engage patients. The company says it serves more than 13,000 providers and delivers over 40 million personalized messages a year to more than 5 million patients, and in early 2024 it raised a $15 million Series A led by Next Coast Ventures.
Clarion builds an AI communication layer for healthcare that answers the phones, texts, and web chats clinics can't keep up with. Its voice, SMS, and web agents handle scheduling, prescription refills, billing questions, referral intake, and after-hours follow-up, integrating with 80-plus EHR systems including Epic and Cerner. Founded in 2024 by a Stanford/Harvard-trained physician and an ex-Amazon Alexa voice-AI engineer, the New York company is a Y Combinator W24 startup backed by Accel and Airtable Ventures, and says it serves tens of thousands of patients a month across virtual-care companies, health systems, and a large health insurer.