Clarify Health Solutions is a San Francisco-based healthcare analytics company that maps hundreds of millions of patient journeys through its cloud-based Atlas Platform, helping payers, providers, and life sciences companies make smarter decisions about cost, care, and outcomes in the shift to value-based care.
Penguin Ai is a healthcare-native agentic AI platform built to chip away at the roughly $1 trillion in administrative waste choking U.S. healthcare. Founded by former chief data officers from UnitedHealthcare, Kaiser Permanente and Optum, the company ships Gwen, a build-your-own AI environment that turns plain-language prompts into containerized digital workers for prior auth, claims, coding and payment integrity.
Marina Kusserow is an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the Bio+Health team, where she leads healthcare business development strategy across payers, providers, and large employers. A health policy graduate who cut her teeth at Oxeon Partners, then became Chief of Staff for Walmart Health's clinical delivery team, then tackled M&A at Unite Us, Marina now serves as connective tissue between a16z's portfolio companies and the broader healthcare ecosystem. She splits her time between New York City and Nashville, Tennessee.
Samantha Walter is a Healthcare Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she helps portfolio companies grow by building strategic partnerships across the care delivery ecosystem - payors, providers, employers, and retail. A University of Wisconsin-Madison finance graduate originally from Minneapolis, she brings deep operational credibility to the VC world: before joining a16z, she built a Direct Contracting Entity at Carelon (then CareMore/Aspire under Anthem/Elevance) in 2020, drove customer success at Quartet Health, and cut her teeth as a healthcare revenue cycle consultant at Huron Consulting Group in New York City. She lives and works in NYC, bridging Silicon Valley capital with real-world healthcare infrastructure.