Virtual AI assistant company raises $20M
Vapi, an AI virtual assistant company, raised $20 million in a Series A funding round.
Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. Other VC investors participating included Abstract Ventures, Y Combinator and Saga Ventures.
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Vapi sells AI virtual assistants as a service for a number of healthcare use cases, including answering patient scheduling phone calls, making provider prior authorization calls and completing mental health wellness checks.
CEO Jordan Dearsley said the company will use the funding to scale its engineering and sales teams, reduce the time it takes for customers to deploy its tools and improve how a model reaches its outcomes. The round brings Vapi’s total raised to $23 million.
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Y Combinator, Box Group back healthcare data company
Tuva Health, a healthcare data company, publicly launched with $5 million in seed funding. The company’s model aims to unify claims and clinical data.
Venture capital firm Virtue led the round. Venture firms Box Group and Y Combinator along with a series of unnamed angel investors also participated in the round.
Tuva Health created an open-source, free and publicly available data model that organizes medical claims data. It plans to monetize with paid insights through products like accreditation measurements and patient management tools, a spokesperson said.
Tuva plans to use the funding to scale for new business opportunities.
Cala Health raises $50M from J&J, Ascension, OSF
Cala Health, a bioelectric medicine company, raised $50 million in a growth round, with participation from existing vendors including Johnson & Johnson Innovation, OSF Ventures and Ascension Ventures. Read more.
