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Ardent Health
Ardent Health is betting that a hospital system can stay local while its technology, purchasing and operating discipline scale nationally. Across six states, the result is a care network stretching from the emergency room to the smartphone.
Cameron Howieson
Cameron Howieson is the co-founder and CEO of Opencare, a Toronto-based digital health company that connects patients with a curated network of top-rated dentists across North America. A computer engineer by training, he co-founded the stock-research startup Vuru (acquired by Wave Accounting in 2012) before helping build Opencare, where he moved from CTO to COO to CEO. His work centers on making preventive dental care transparent, convenient and comfortable for patients.
Danny Sigurdson
Danny Sigurdson is the founder and CEO of Courier Health, a New York-based technology company that builds a purpose-built patient CRM and experience platform for life sciences companies. After more than a decade in enterprise software - including a role as VP of Sales at ActionIQ and client leadership at Applied Predictive Technologies - he started Courier Health in 2020 to close the gap between specialty medicine approvals and the patients who never start or stay on treatment. The company has raised $70.5M to date, most recently a $50M Series B led by Oak HC/FT.
Syllable
Syllable is a Mountain View, California company that builds, deploys, and manages AI voice and text agents, originally to automate patient communication for health system call centers and medical practices. Founded in 2016, it has expanded from healthcare-specific natural language understanding into a broader, model-neutral agentic platform that lets organizations build agents once and run them across any cloud with governance, analytics, and compliance built in. The company has raised roughly $81.7M+ across Seed through Series C, counts investors like TCV, Oak HC/FT, Verily, and Northwell, and acquired Actium Health in 2024.
Samira Daswani
Samira Daswani is the founder and CEO of Manta Cares, a San Francisco healthtech company building clinically trusted, AI-enabled tools that help cancer patients and caregivers navigate the maze of treatment. A bioengineer trained at MIT and Wellesley with a master's in healthcare design from Stanford, she spent her early career at McKinsey and as VP of Product at diagnostics company Visby Medical before launching Manta Cares in 2022. The company raised an oversubscribed $5.4M seed round led by Pear VC and Sozo Ventures and now serves thousands of users. She also hosts the podcast 'Patient from Hell.'
NexHealth
NexHealth is a San Francisco-based health technology company building the patient experience platform for medical and dental practices. Its software gives doctors EHR-integrated online scheduling, patient messaging, digital paperwork, recalls, reviews and payments, while its Universal API and proprietary Synchronizer let developers read and write data across 20+ practice management systems in real time. Founded in 2017 by Alamin Uddin and Waleed Asif, NexHealth reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $125M Series C at a $1B valuation and serves more than 10,000 practices.
Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer is the founder and CEO of Vital, an AI-driven software company that helps hospitals cut emergency-room wait times, flag high-risk patients, and translate medical jargon into plain English. He first made his name building Mint.com, the free personal-finance app he started in 2006 and sold to Intuit for $170 million just two-plus years later. An engineer with degrees from Duke and Princeton, Patzer has spent his career turning intimidating, regulation-heavy industries into experiences ordinary people can actually understand - first money, now medicine.
Assort Health
Assort Health builds specialty-specific voice AI agents that answer patient phone calls for medical practices and health systems, resolving them rather than routing them. Trained on more than 150 million patient interactions and integrated directly into EHR and practice-management systems, its agentic platform schedules appointments, triages, verifies insurance, handles refills and follows up with patients across 20+ specialties. Founded in 2023 by Jeff Liu and Jon Wang, the San Francisco company raised a $76M Series B in 2025, bringing total funding to $102M.
Vital
Vital is a digital health company that uses artificial intelligence and large language models to improve the patient experience inside emergency departments and hospitals. Founded by Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer and emergency physician Dr. Justin Schrager, its consumer-grade software predicts ER wait times, translates clinical jargon into plain language, automates discharge and follow-up communication, and reduces clinician workload. Vital reads directly from hospital EHRs through FHIR/HL7 integrations and is used by 100+ hospitals and roughly 20-30 health systems, serving more than 5 million patients a year.
Alamin Uddin
Alamin Uddin is the co-founder and CEO of NexHealth, the patient experience and health-records integration platform he started in 2017 after a stint as a front-desk receptionist in a Bronx clinic showed him how analog healthcare really is. He runs the company from San Francisco, where it crossed a $1B valuation in its 2022 Series C.