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The MRI Wasn't Broken. The Referral Was.
Medmo built a business around the least glamorous part of radiology: everything between a doctor's order and a usable result. After more than one million patient journeys, that connective tissue became valuable enough to reshape the company.
Insight Health AI, Inc.
Insight Health AI is a physician-built healthcare technology company in Austin, Texas that builds voice-first and chat-based AI agents to automate routine clinical and administrative work - from patient intake, phone triage, and fax and referral processing to ambient clinical documentation. Founded in 2023 by a former Segment sales-engineering leader and two practicing physicians, the company sells its Lumi care assistant, Aura AI scribe, and specialty-specific agents to clinics and regional health systems. It raised an $11M Series A led by Standard Capital in April 2026, and reports more than 3 million autonomous patient interactions and roughly $50 million in annualized administrative savings across its customers.
Vim
Vim is a healthcare technology company that builds a middleware and developer platform connecting data to clinical workflow at healthcare's 'last mile' - the point of care. Its EHR-agnostic Vim Connect layer sits on top of popular electronic health records, pulling in insights and applications from payers, health plans, and digital-health innovators and surfacing them directly inside a provider's existing workflow. By automating tasks such as care gap closure, diagnosis capture, prior authorization, referral management, and chart retrieval, Vim helps payers and providers align on value-based care while reducing administrative burden for clinicians.
Vital Interaction
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.
Luminai
Luminai is an AI-native workflow automation platform built for the back office of American healthcare. It turns messy, unstructured inputs - faxes, chart notes, insurance forms - into structured data and then runs full administrative workflows like referral intake, patient registration, and denial appeals end to end, with a human in the loop and HIPAA/SOC 2 controls baked in. Founded in 2019 by Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran and Dmitry Dolgopolov, the company started life as customer-support RPA tool DigitalBrain, pivoted entirely into healthcare, and raised a $38M Series B in April 2026 led by Peak XV Partners, with Cleveland Clinic as a flagship partner.
Clarion
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.
ExaCare AI
ExaCare AI is a New York-based healthcare technology company building an AI operating system for post-acute and senior care. Its suite of AI agents reads messy referral packets, recommends patient placements, automates reimbursement and documentation, and surfaces clinical risk so that care teams in skilled nursing, home health, and hospice spend less time on paperwork and more time on patients. Founded in 2022 by Laird Russell and Ben Willox, the company powers roughly 1,500-2,000 facilities nationwide and raised a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Pear Suite
Pear Suite is a digital health company that equips community health workers (CHWs), promotores, doulas, and the community-based organizations they work for with an AI-powered care navigation platform. The software helps frontline workers document visits, track clients, address social determinants of health, and bill health plans, while connecting them into a national provider network that handles contracting, clinical, and claims infrastructure so community-based care can finally get reimbursed sustainably.