What Savana does

Savana (legal entity Medsavana, S.L.) is a Madrid-based healthtech company that builds AI-powered clinical natural language processing (NLP) infrastructure for hospitals and life sciences organisations. Its core technology, Savana cNLP (also branded EHRead), is a proprietary multilingual NLP engine trained exclusively on more than 7 billion real Electronic Health Record (EHR) documents across seven languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch). The engine extracts regulatory-grade clinical variables from unstructured free-text clinical narrative, including physician notes, discharge summaries, radiology and pathology reports, and consultation documents, and is delivered through an API-first (NLPaaS) architecture with full source traceability and audit trails.

The product portfolio extends beyond the core NLP engine to a hospital data platform (Savana Manager Suite), a federated health data space aligned with the European Health Data Space (Savana Data Space), AI-powered living registries (Savana NGR), and complementary modules for de-identification (DeID Station), data transformation to OMOP/HL7-FHIR standards, clinical trial cohort identification (Trial Broker), and pattern detection. These products sit on top of the Smart Health Alliance, a federated network spanning 280+ institutions across 15 countries in Europe, North America, and Latin America. The company holds ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, HIPAA, ENS, and HiTrust certifications, and positions its outputs to meet FDA, EMA, and HTA evidentiary standards.

Savana monetises primarily through enterprise B2B SaaS subscriptions on a quote-based annual contract model, selling to hospitals and health systems, life sciences companies (pharma, MedTech, CROs), and research networks. Distribution is direct enterprise field sales targeting buyers in healthcare and life sciences, supported by thought leadership, scientific publication, and active participation in industry conferences (ASCO, ESMO, HLTH Europe, DMEA, ISPOR, BIOSPAIN). The company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries in Spain (Madrid, Málaga), Germany (Berlin), France (Bayonne), the United Kingdom (London), and the United States (New York). Disclosed funding totals approximately €39 million across rounds in 2018, 2020, and 2022, led at various points by Seaya, Cathay Innovation, and Conexo Ventures, with a non-dilutive CDTI tranche in 2025.

Name

Savana

Legal name

Medsavana, S.L.

Website

https://savanamed.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Savana is a Madrid-based healthtech company that sells AI-powered multilingual clinical NLP software to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, MedTech firms, and CROs, extracting regulatory-grade evidence from unstructured EHR data across 280+ institutions in 15 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Data Analytics / Clinical NLP Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Platforms (HLACAOAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Regulatory Strategy & IND/NDA/BLA Submissions Support (HLAIALAH)

Keywords

• Clinical natural language processing
• Real-world evidence generation
• Electronic health records analytics
• Federated health data platform
• Healthcare AI software

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Clinical NLP SaaS Platform: Savana operates as a healthtech SaaS company offering AI-powered clinical NLP solutions. They provide subscription-based access to their multilingual NLP platform, data infrastructure, and registry solutions for hospitals and life sciences companies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Savana provides AI-powered multilingual Clinical Natural Language Processing (cNLP) technology trained exclusively on real Electronic Health Records, extracting regulatory-grade structured variables from unstructured clinical text across 7 languages. The company offers a SaaS ecosystem including a hospital-native data platform (Savana Manager Suite), a federated health data space (Savana Data Space), AI-powered living registries (Savana NGR), and a global hospital network (Smart Health Alliance) serving hospitals, life sciences companies, CROs, and research institutions.

Product overview

Savana is a healthtech SaaS company operating a unified ecosystem of AI-powered clinical data solutions. The core offering centers on Savana cNLP (EHRead), a proprietary clinical NLP engine trained on real EHRs, which powers the entire product suite. Savana Manager Suite serves as the hospital-native data platform that structures all EHR content. Savana Data Space provides the federated, EHDS-ready infrastructure for secure cross-institutional collaboration. Savana NGR (Next Generation Registry) delivers AI-native living registries for continuous regulatory-grade evidence generation. These core products are interconnected within the Smart Health Alliance—a federated global hospital network of 280+ institutions across 15 countries. Complementary tools include Savana DeID Station for multilingual de-identification, Savana Variable Manager, Savana Transformations (OMOP/HL7-FHIR conversion), Savana Trial Broker, and Savana Clinical Pattern Detector. The ecosystem transforms unstructured EHR data into regulatory-grade real-world evidence for hospitals, life sciences companies, and research networks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Savana Manager Suite: Hospital-native clinical data platform that structures, harmonises, and unlocks both structured and unstructured EHR data for analytics, research, and operational use.
• Savana Data Space
• Savana NGR (Next Generation Registry)
• Savana cNLP (EHRead)
• Smart Health Alliance
• Savana DeID Station

Products and services

• Savana cNLP (EHRead) API-first Clinical NLP engine trained exclusively on real EHRs across 7 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch), delivering regulatory-grade precision for extracting structured clinical variables from unstructured clinical text with full source traceability and audit-ready outputs. Designed for integration into research and clinical workflows of hospitals, pharma, CROs, and MedTech firms.
• Savana Manager Suite Hospital-native clinical data platform that structures, harmonizes, and unlocks both structured and unstructured EHR data for analytics, research, and operational use. Transforms raw clinical documentation into analysis-ready data to improve care pathways, accelerate research, and strengthen operational decision-making for hospitals and health systems.
• Savana Data Space Federated, EHDS-ready health data space for secure cross-institutional collaboration, data governance, and compliant evidence generation. Enables data to stay at source institutions while allowing approved queries and access for multicentre research.
• Savana NGR (Next Generation Registry) AI-powered next-generation registries that turn routine EHR data into scalable, longitudinal, regulatory-grade evidence assets. Continuously ingests data and updates cohorts in near real-time to support pharma R&D, market access, and post-marketing strategies.
• Smart Health Alliance Federated global hospital network spanning 280+ institutions across 15 countries in Europe, North America, and Latin America, enabling multicentre, multilingual, regulatory-grade real-world research through shared infrastructure and methodology.
• Savana DeID Station Multilingual de-identification engine ensuring GDPR, HIPAA, and EHDS compliance while preserving research value. Designed for privacy, operational efficiency, scalability, and clinical meaning across the Savana ecosystem.
• Savana Transformations Data transformation tool that converts clinical data into OMOP/HL7-FHIR standards for interoperable, auditable, and reusable research across the Savana ecosystem.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% faster study setup for multicentre research compared to traditional methods
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Smart Health Alliance (SHA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSavana's own global hospital network and health data space. A federated network of 280+ hospitals across Europe, North America, and Latin America enabling multicentre, multilingual, regulatory-grade real-world research through shared infrastructure and methodology.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Flatiron Health: Roche-owned healthtech firm that structures unstructured EHR data for oncology real-world evidence serving hospitals, researchers, and life sciences. Directly comparable to Savana's EHR NLP-to-RWE model, though geographically focused on the US and oncology-vertical.
• TriNetX: Global federated clinical research network that enables real-world data analysis and clinical trial feasibility across hundreds of healthcare organizations. Closely comparable to Savana's Smart Health Alliance in business model — selling EHR-derived research access to pharma — and offers the most direct overlap.
• Owkin: Federated AI platform that trains models on patient data from a multicentre hospital network in Europe and the US without moving the data. Highly comparable to Savana's federated data space architecture and multilingual, multi-jurisdiction approach to clinical AI for life sciences.
• Tempus Labs: AI-driven precision medicine company that combines EHR-derived clinical data with molecular profiling to support pharma R&D and clinical decision-making. Directly comparable in the EHR-plus-molecular data thesis for life sciences, the focus area Savana cited as a use of 2022 funding.
• Aetion: Regulatory-grade real-world evidence analytics platform used by life sciences companies and regulators for market access and safety studies. Comparable as a software-only RWE platform for pharma evidence generation, though focused on structured-data analytics rather than unstructured EHR NLP.
• Datavant: Health data connectivity and de-identification platform that links fragmented patient data across providers and life sciences. Comparable to Savana's DeID Station and Data Space in the privacy-preserving health data exchange layer, and overlapping in pharmaceutical customer base.
• Clinerion: International hospital network for real-world data and patient recruitment across emerging and developed markets. Highly comparable to Savana's Smart Health Alliance in the federated cross-border EHR network model, with a similar international footprint focus.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: Largest global real-world evidence and clinical research services provider serving the full pharma value chain. Competes with Savana in pharma RWE but as part of a much broader commercial CRO/data-services portfolio rather than a pure-play EHR-NLP specialist.
• Veradigm (formerly Allscripts): Major EHR vendor with a real-world data and life sciences business derived from its installed base of provider systems. Competes with Savana for pharma RWE access and has advantages from owning the EMR layer, though its NLP depth and multilingual coverage are less specialized.

Emerging players

• MDClone: Hospital-facing clinical data analytics platform that helps health systems explore and leverage full EHR data (structured and unstructured) for research and operations. Comparable to Savana's Manager Suite in the hospital-native clinical data platform category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors8 records

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M&A

Investments

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