Datagence

What Datagence does

Datagence is a U.S.-based data trust company founded in 2024 and headquartered in Phoenix (incorporated in Delaware), operating through Datagence, Inc. The company builds and sells Polus, a data quality and governance platform, with its current-generation product Polus HCP focused on healthcare provider data. Polus HCP ingests multi-format roster files (CSV, XLS, PDF, EHR exports, payer portals, delegated rosters), continuously validates them against authoritative federal sources (NPPES, PECOS, OIG LEIE, SAM.gov, state licensing boards, and the National Directory reference dataset), applies a patent-pending multi-entity consensus identity resolution engine to produce one reconciled record per provider, and outputs FHIR R4 PDex Plan-Net-ready data for CMS Phase 2 compliance.

The platform addresses a documented market problem — JAMA-cited data that 81% of physician directory entries disagree across the top five payers and that half of claim denials trace to inaccurate provider data — by targeting Medicare Advantage health plans (CMS-4208-F2 attestation), hospitals and health systems (revenue cycle and credentialing), and medical billing firms (denial prevention). It also offers an eCommerce & Retail vertical built on the same Polus Data Trust Fabric, with PriceSmart as a referenced customer. Underlying capabilities include a six-dimension data health assessment (Accessibility, Accuracy, Completeness, Timeliness, Uniqueness, Validity), ISO 8000 / ANSI standard alignment, and pre-built connectors for ERP, CRM, and operational systems.

Datagence monetizes through three streams: a Polus SaaS subscription (annual, multi-year), a full-service managed deployment, and a fixed-fee NPD Submission Readiness Assessment priced at $35,000 (standard 25K-500K-life MA plans), $55,000-$75,000 (larger plans), plus an optional $15,000 capped remediation add-on, with 100% of assessment fees creditable toward a year-one subscription for conversions within 120 days. The company pursues a consultative enterprise field-sales motion targeting C-suite executives (CEO, CFO, COO) responsible for HPMS attestation, supported by content marketing across a Trust Center, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X. The company is led by founder/CEO John Muehling and President Elsa Guerrero, has 1-10 employees, and has raised $1.5M in disclosed funding across two rounds.

Name

Datagence

Legal name

Datagence, Inc.

Website

https://datagence.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Datagence provides the Polus data trust platform, with Polus HCP focused on healthcare provider data validation, identity resolution, and FHIR-ready output for Medicare Advantage plans, hospitals, and medical billing firms facing CMS attestation requirements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Data Quality and Provider Data Management

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Master Data Management (MDM) & Patient/Provider Identity Data (HLACAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data Quality, Profiling & Cleansing (HDAEADAD)

Keywords

• Data quality management
• Provider data validation
• Healthcare data governance
• Data trust fabric
• Data migration services

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Polus SaaS Subscription: SaaS subscription model for accessing Polus platform. Customers can manage data independently or with support. Subscription includes access to data trust technology, continuous validation, identity resolution, and FHIR-ready output capabilities. Subscription credits available for NPD Readiness Assessment customers who convert within 120 days.
2. Full-Service Solution: Hands-on support solution for organizations preferring guided service over self-managed SaaS. Includes expert-led teams handling data complexities and technology deployment.
3. NPD Submission Readiness Assessment: Fixed-scope, fixed-fee 30-day engagement producing attestation readiness evidence package. Standard engagement at $35,000 for MA plans of 25,000 to 500,000 lives. Larger plans priced at $55K-$75K. Optional remediation add-on at $15,000 capped. Entire assessment fee credits toward year one Polus HCP subscription for organizations converting within 120 days.
4. DQaaS (Data Quality as a Service): Data Quality as a Service allowing organizations to become data stewards of their own data. Providers specialize in delivering comprehensive data quality services from data cleansing and validation to governance and stewardship.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Datagence offers a data trust platform built on its patent-pending Polus technology that unifies, validates, and standardizes data from disparate sources across healthcare provider, eCommerce, and retail contexts. The core offering centers on Polus HCP, a healthcare-specific data trust fabric that continuously validates provider identity against authoritative federal sources (NPPES, PECOS, OIG LEIE, SAM.gov, state licensing boards, CAQH, payer rosters), resolves identity conflicts using patent-pending multi-entity consensus scoring, and outputs FHIR-ready provider data for CMS Phase 2 compliance. Delivered as a SaaS subscription or full-service engagement.

Product overview

Datagence is a data trust company offering a unified platform built around its patent-pending Polus data trust technology. The core portfolio consists of Polus HCP (the current-generation healthcare provider data solution), Polus Gen1 (first-generation predecessor), and the underlying Polus Data Trust Fabric engine. Polus HCP addresses healthcare-specific needs around provider identity resolution, continuous validation against authoritative sources (NPPES, PECOS, CAQH, OIG LEIE, SAM.gov), and FHIR-ready output for CMS Phase 2 compliance. An optional NPD Submission Readiness Assessment engagement ($35,000 fixed fee) provides attestation readiness evaluation for Medicare Advantage organizations facing the September 1, 2026 HPMS deadline. Solutions span two vertical markets: Healthcare Provider Data and eCommerce & Retail. Deployment options include SaaS subscription and full-service delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Polus HCP (Healthcare Provider) A healthcare-specific data trust fabric that validates provider identity continuously across fragmented healthcare data sources, resolves conflicts using patent-pending multi-entity consensus scoring, and outputs FHIR-ready provider data conforming to PDex Plan-Net Implementation Guide v1.2.0 on HL7 FHIR R4. Built for Medicare Advantage organizations, hospitals, and billing firms to fix provider data upstream of claims, credentialing, and directory systems. Includes six capabilities: Ingest, Validate, Resolve, Enrich, Log, and Publish.
• Polus Gen1 (1st Generation) The first-generation version of Datagence's data trust technology, representing the foundational platform before the current HCP-focused iteration. It established the core data unification and validation approach that evolved into Polus HCP.
• Polus Data Trust Fabric

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Industry Integration, Technology, and Consulting FirmscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliances with industry-leading integration, technology, and consulting firms to help customers achieve data trust and validation. The partnerships facilitate seamless data flows and implementation support for customers deploying Polus technology.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Verato: Healthcare-focused identity data management and master person/provider index (MPI/MDM) vendor. Directly comparable to Datagence's Polus HCP because both build identity resolution engines purpose-built for healthcare provider and patient data, ingesting fragmented source records and reconciling them into a trusted golden record.
• Reltio: Cloud-native master data management (MDM) and data unification platform with strong healthcare and life sciences presence. Competes head-to-head with Polus on entity resolution, data quality, and 360-degree data products, and is commonly evaluated by the same payer/provider buyers Datagence targets.
• Tamr: AI-native data mastering and unification platform used for enterprise MDM at scale. Highly comparable to Polus's six-capability data trust fabric because Tamr applies machine learning to deduplicate, match, and curate master data across fragmented operational systems — a direct substitute for the same buyer problem Datagence solves.
• Ataccama: Data quality, data catalog, and MDM platform with AI-driven profiling, matching, and stewardship. Overlaps directly with Datagence's data quality engine and identity resolution capabilities and is sold into similarly regulated, data-intensive enterprises.
• NextGate: Healthcare enterprise master person index (EMPI) vendor specializing in patient and provider identity across hospitals, HIEs, and payers. The closest pure-play healthcare identity competitor to Datagence's provider-side identity resolution capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Informatica: Large, established enterprise data integration, data quality, and governance platform with broad healthcare adoption. Competes with Datagence at the data quality/MDM layer but as part of a much wider portfolio and via traditional integration-heavy deployments rather than a domain-specific provider data fabric.
• Precisely: Enterprise data integrity platform covering data quality, MDM, integration, and geospatial/address verification. A broader incumbent alternative to Datagence's data quality and identity resolution, often shortlisted by healthcare payers and providers for master data initiatives.
• Collibra: Enterprise data intelligence and governance platform focused on cataloging, stewardship, and policy rather than identity resolution itself. Adjacent incumbent that large Datagence buyers (especially MA plans) often already have deployed, creating both partnership and competitive dynamics.

Emerging players

• Alation: Data catalog and governance platform with growing data quality and stewardship features. Comparable as an emerging entrant expanding from cataloging into the broader data trust and stewardship workflow where Datagence competes, particularly with regulated healthcare buyers.
• Health Gorilla: Healthcare interoperability and FHIR-native clinical data exchange platform. Comparable on the FHIR-ready, regulatory-driven payer/provider data layer Datagence targets with Polus HCP's CMS Phase 2 alignment, though focused more on clinical data than provider directory data.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/DatagenceInc
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@DatagenceInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/datagence-dqaas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

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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