Check out today’s featured companies who have recently raised a round of funding, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT fundings.
Shyld AI Raises $13.4M to Expand Active AI Across U.S. Hospitals
Shyld AI, a healthcare technology company pioneering Active Intelligence for healthcare facilities, has raised a $13.4 million seed round, one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector. The round was led by Aulis Capital and will fund expansion across U.S. health systems. Founded by brothers Mohammad and Morteza Noshad, the company is building a new category of Agentic AI systems that take real-time action inside hospitals.
While most healthcare AI remains ambient and passive, Shyld AI actively executes critical operational tasks across operating room workflows, patient safety, compliance, and infection control, reducing administrative burden on clinical and environmental services teams. In operating rooms, Shyld agents interpret case progression, turnover phases, staff movement, and delay drivers in real time. This enables optimization of disinfection timing between cases, identification of missing supplies before procedures, and reduction of bottlenecks that disrupt surgical schedules, improving efficiency while reducing costly delays.
Powering this capability is VERTEX, Shyld AI’s proprietary foundation model designed for edge-native, real-time agentic AI in physical environments. Unlike cloud-dependent systems, VERTEX runs directly on Shyld AI devices within hospital rooms, enabling continuous perception, reasoning, and action without latency or reliance on hospital IT infrastructure, while preserving privacy. This edge-first architecture ensures reliable performance in complex clinical environments and uninterrupted operation at the point of care.
The company’s flagship solution combines AI with UV-C light technology to autonomously disinfect hospital environments, targeting healthcare-associated infections that contribute to approximately 72,000 hospital deaths annually in the United States, according to CDC data. A Stanford University study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found that Shyld AI’s system reduced contamination by more than 93% compared to a control room, demonstrating measurable clinical impact.
CEO Mohammad Noshad stated, “We’re moving the industry from passive AI to Active AI technology that understands how hospitals actually operate and improves workflows in real time without adding burden to clinical teams…
Full release here, originally announced May 14th, 2026.
Garner Health Closes $100 Million Series E at a $2.74B Valuation to Continue Addressing the Healthcare Quality and Cost Gap
Garner Partners with Almost 800 Leading Companies, Who See an Average 12 Percent Reduction in Annual Healthcare Spend
Garner Health, a leading digital platform that helps patients find the best healthcare providers using better data and smarter financial incentives, has closed a $100 million Series E round, led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors including Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Thrive, Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The round brings Garner’s valuation to $2.74 billion.
The round reflects growing demand from employers, health plans, and health systems alike for better ways to help Americans find high-quality doctors while reducing healthcare costs. Garner partners with almost 800 customers, including USA Today, Paylocity, and the University of Oklahoma.
Garner’s gross annual recurring revenue is approximately $200M, and has more than doubled for five years in a row.
Alongside the financing, the company recently conducted a second tender offer for employees.
“Healthcare doesn’t change through incremental tweaks—it changes when consumers finally have the information and incentives they need to make better decisions about their care,” said Nick Reber, Garner Health CEO. “Our mission at Garner is to fundamentally realign the system around quality by empowering people to choose the doctors who deliver the best outcomes. When you give consumers the right data and align incentives around better care, the entire healthcare system will change for the better.”
“The American healthcare system pays doctors to do things to you, not for you. Garner is quietly fixing that,” said Jahanvi Sardana, Partner at Index Ventures…
Full release here, originally announced May 28th, 2026.
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