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Bento
Bento is a Boston-based dental benefits technology company that replaces traditional dental insurance with a transparent, self-funded model. Its patented, AI-powered platform connects employers, associations, dentists and DSOs with real-time claims adjudication, customizable plan design and in-office membership plans. The only dental benefits solution endorsed by the American Dental Association, Bento says it can cut employer dental costs by 20-40% while giving members access to hundreds of thousands of provider access points nationwide.
Pulse Protocol, Inc.
Pulse Protocol is a plug-and-play medical travel platform that helps doctors, clinics and hospitals manage and grow their cross-border patient business. It pairs patients with multilingual care coordinators and gives providers an end-to-end toolkit - patient matching, secure communications, payments, marketing and revenue analytics - built on decades of medical tourism experience and, in its earlier MedRepublic incarnation, a blockchain-backed vision of a decentralized, transparent global healthcare marketplace.
Trek Health
Trek Health is a San Mateo-based healthtech company that turns federally mandated price-transparency data into negotiating leverage for hospitals and provider groups. Its AI-powered platform ingests, normalizes, and validates payer rate data from more than 120 commercial payers every quarter, then lets healthcare CFOs and contract teams benchmark their rates against the market, model negotiation scenarios, and identify revenue they're leaving on the table. Founded in 2022 by Dilpreet Sahota and Gopal Narayan, the company raised an $11M Series A led by Madrona in 2025 and serves 130+ provider customers.
Turquoise Health
Turquoise Health is a San Diego health-tech company building the operating system for healthcare contracts and payments. It turns the messy, hidden world of payer and provider pricing - machine-readable files, claims, contracts and Medicare benchmarks - into clear, auditable rates and AI-readable contracts, so that buying and paying for care could one day be as straightforward as any other transaction. More than 280 organizations, including major health systems, national payers, pharma companies and brokers, use the platform.
GoodRx
GoodRx is a Santa Monica-based digital healthcare platform that helps Americans find lower prices on prescription drugs. It aggregates real-time pricing and discounts from pharmacies nationwide so consumers can compare costs and access free coupons, then layers on telehealth visits, manufacturer savings programs, and tools for pharma and employers. Since 2011 it has helped tens of millions of people save an estimated $70+ billion on medications.