PHEMI

What PHEMI does

PHEMI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company founded in 2013 that historically operated as a cloud-based big data management system. The company built a leadership team oriented toward healthcare and life sciences data infrastructure, evidenced by a Chief Medical Officer (Alan Rabinowitz), a President & CEO (Keith Elliston), a CTO (Scott Blodgett), a Chief Revenue Officer (Lloyd Wilhelms), and a board chair (Mike Satterfield). Over four disclosed funding rounds between 2014 and 2018, PHEMI raised approximately $24.9M from a syndicate of Canadian healthcare-focused investors including BDC Healthcare Venture, CTI Life Sciences Fund, Yaletown Partners, Quark Venture, and Discovery Capital, with GF Securities and Amplitude Venture Capital participating in later rounds — indicating a prior go-to-market targeting enterprise healthcare and life-sciences customers managing regulated, high-volume data.

The company's underlying technology is described in available sources as a cloud-based big data management system, with no further architectural, pricing, or product details publicly disclosed. As of the most recent data, PHEMI's website (phemi.com) displays a 'Launching Soon' placeholder featuring only an email subscription form and a 2024 copyright notice; there are no products, pricing tiers, customer logos, distribution channels, partnerships, or certifications disclosed. The combination of a multi-year gap since the last funding round (2018), the placeholder web presence, and the absence of disclosed commercial activity indicates the company is either in a transitional re-launch state, has narrowed its operating footprint, or has effectively paused commercial operations pending a new product introduction.

Name

PHEMI

Legal name

Phemi

Website

https://phemi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

PHEMI is a Vancouver-based company that historically operated a cloud-based big data management system targeting healthcare and life-sciences customers. As of 2024, its website displays a 'Launching Soon' placeholder with no product, pricing, or customer information disclosed.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Data Management

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Information (51)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Clinical Data Management, Biostatistics & Statistical Programming CROs (HLAGAAAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Management, Biostatistics & Statistical Programming FSP (HLAGAOAB), Bioinformatics, Multi-Omics Data Analysis & Interpretation Services (HLAGANAI)

Keywords

• Healthcare data management
• Clinical data platform
• Big data management
• Life sciences analytics
• Health data infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

PHEMI is a cloud-based big data management system intended to help organizations — particularly in healthcare and life sciences — store, manage, and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data. The company's website is currently in a pre-launch state ("Launching Soon") with email subscription sign-up for updates, indicating the platform is not yet generally available to customers.

Product overview

PHEMI appears to be a company with a website currently under development, displaying a "Coming Soon" landing page at https://phemi.com/. No specific product names, offerings, or service details were available in the source content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Health Catalyst: Health Catalyst is a healthcare-focused data and analytics platform that aggregates clinical, operational, and financial data for health systems. It is the closest direct analogue to PHEMI's original healthcare big data management positioning, operating at substantially larger scale.
• Innovaccer: Innovaccer provides a healthcare data platform that unifies clinical, claims, and social determinants data and offers analytics and workflow applications on top. Like PHEMI, it targets enterprise healthcare buyers with a unified data layer underneath analytics products.
• Datavant: Datavant focuses on privacy-preserving linking and exchange of healthcare data across organizations. It overlaps with PHEMI's privacy-aware healthcare data management positioning, particularly for clinical and real-world data workflows.
• Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health builds oncology-focused clinical data infrastructure and real-world evidence products. It is comparable to PHEMI's clinical and genomic data management capabilities, though narrower in therapeutic focus and now part of Roche.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: IQVIA is a large-scale CRO and real-world evidence provider with extensive clinical data management, biostatistics, and analytics capabilities. It represents the incumbent CRO/data services scale that PHEMI would have competed against in clinical data management.
• Parexel: Parexel is a global CRO offering clinical data management, biostatistics, and statistical programming services. It is comparable as a broad incumbent in the clinical data management services space adjacent to PHEMI's target buyer workflow.
• Snowflake: Snowflake provides a cloud data platform used by many healthcare organizations to consolidate clinical, operational, and claims data. It is an indirect competitor to PHEMI at the data infrastructure layer, increasingly with healthcare-specific features.
• Databricks: Databricks offers a unified data and AI platform with growing healthcare and life sciences adoption, including genomics and clinical data lakehouse offerings. It competes with PHEMI at the platform layer for healthcare data workloads.

Emerging players

• Verana Health: Verana Health curates and analyzes real-world clinical data from specialty physician practices to support research and care. It overlaps with PHEMI's clinical/genomic data orientation but focuses on specialty real-world evidence rather than a general data platform.
• Truveta: Truveta aggregates de-identified patient data from a consortium of US health systems to enable research and analytics. It is comparable to PHEMI's healthcare data aggregation and privacy-preserving positioning but operates as a health-system consortium rather than a vendor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PHEMIsystems
• Facebookfacebook.com/PHEMIsystems
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/phemi

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors8 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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