United Network for Organ Sharing

Name

United Network for Organ Sharing

Legal name

United Network for Organ Sharing

Website

https://unos.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organ Transplant Management Software

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991)

akta.pro primary industry

EHR Extensions, APIs, App Marketplaces & SMART-on-FHIR Apps (HLACAAAN)

Keywords

• Organ transplant management
• Organ matching software
• Transplant data analytics
• Healthcare logistics services
• Donor registry systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Virginia Beach

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, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Federal OPTN Contract: UNOS serves as a federal contractor for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under HRSA, performing key operational functions including maintenance of the UNet organ matching system, information security, the Organ Center, and OPTN data management. The extension agreement with HRSA (effective December 30, 2025) establishes a contract structured as up to four optional three-month periods ending no later than December 29, 2026.
2. UNOS Tools (Optional Paid Tools): UNOS offers optional paid tools and services including UNOS Predict, CARE Tool, Benchmark Report Creator, Transplant Quality Dashboard, and Organ Tracking Service to transplant hospitals and OPOs. The fee for UNOS Tools is optional and distinct from the federal OPTN patient registration fee. Services help transplant programs enhance patient care, improve quality, and support performance improvement initiatives.
3. Research Consulting Services: UNOS Research Consulting helps medical device and pharmaceutical companies find actionable data insights and key insights into product long-term outcomes, offering tailored solutions for the life sciences industry using OPTN transplant data.
4. International Consulting: UNOS provides expert consulting services internationally to help other countries build or improve their organ donation and transplant systems.
5. Grants and Philanthropy: UNOS receives grants from foundations (e.g., Kirby Foundation $1 million grant, Fresenius Foundation $106,000 grant) and conducts grant-funded research (e.g., Sanofi grant for xenotransplantation research). The organization also accepts donations through its Give program.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

UNOS operates the U.S. organ donation and transplantation system as the federal contractor for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). It provides the proprietary UNet software platform for organ matching and data management, a suite of analytics tools (UNOS Predict, CARE Tool, Benchmark Report Creator, Transplant Quality Dashboard, Organ Tracking Service), professional research and consulting services for life sciences companies, and international consulting to help other countries build transplant systems.

Product overview

UNOS offers a unified platform-plus-modules architecture centered on UNet, its core proprietary software system that manages the entire organ matching and transplantation process. The UNOS Tools suite provides transplant hospitals with analytics including UNOS Predict (predictive analytics), CARE Tool (offer pattern analysis), Transplant Benchmark Report Creator (benchmarking), and Transplant Quality Dashboard (staffing analysis). The UNOS Organ Tracking Service provides real-time GPS tracking for organs in transit. In June 2026, UNOS launched UNOS One and UNOS Marketplace as a unified platform connecting professionals with data, analytics, and partner services. OPO Tools serve Organ Procurement Organizations. Professional services include Research Consulting, International Consulting, and the Transplant Management Forum. Supporting modules include DonorNet, TransNet, Kidney Paired Donation, Waitlist, TIEDI, Secure Enterprise, Data Services Portal, and Offer Filters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UNOS One: A platform connecting organ donation and transplant professionals with data, analytics, and trusted partners in one location.
• UNOS Predict
• UNOS Organ Tracking Service
• UNOS CARE Tool
• UNOS Transplant Benchmark Report Creator
• UNet
• UNOS Marketplace
• Transplant Management Forum (TMF)

Products and services

• UNet Proprietary software platform serving as the national organ matching and data management system for the OPTN. Includes modules for waitlist management, donor registration, transplant tracking, kidney paired donation, and electronic data interchange.
• UNOS Predict Predictive analytics tool helping transplant hospitals forecast performance against SRTR metrics including post-transplant survival, patient deaths on waitlist, and organ offer acceptance.
• UNOS Organ Tracking Service Real-time GPS tracking service for organs in transit, providing OPOs and transplant teams with visibility into package location throughout the journey, with seamless integration and UNOS staff assistance for tracker returns.
• UNOS CARE Tool Analytical tool helping transplant teams understand organ offer patterns, identify missed opportunities, and accept more organs for transplant. Provides offer acceptance analysis, system mapping, and comparative performance data.
• UNOS Transplant Benchmark Report Creator Interactive benchmarking tool allowing transplant programs to compare performance against previous years, national benchmarks, and other centers with customizable comparisons and real-time data visualization.
• UNOS One Unified platform connecting organ donation and transplant professionals with data, analytics, and trusted partners in one location, integrating the UNOS Tools suite.
• UNOS Marketplace Digital marketplace within UNOS One for licensed digital content and services from UNOS and third-party providers serving transplant professionals.
• UNOS Research Consulting Professional research and consulting services helping medical device and pharmaceutical companies find actionable data insights and key insights into product long-term outcomes using OPTN transplant data.
• UNOS International Consulting Consulting services helping international organizations establish or improve their organ donation and transplantation systems, leveraging four decades of operational expertise.
• UNOS Organ Center 24/7 coordination center for organ allocation and logistics, operating around the clock to match and transport organs across the United States.
• Transplant Management Forum (TMF) Collaborative forum bringing together transplant professionals for education, best practice sharing, and quality improvement initiatives, including an annual conference with awards such as the Heckenkemper Award.

Quantifiable outcome

• Record 49,064 organ transplants performed in the U.S. in 2025, the fifth consecutive annual record, enabled by UNOS OPTN operations
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship / core.

• LifeNet HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026LifeNet Health partnered with UNOS and NASA on a successful drone kidney transport study completed June 5, 2026. LifeNet Health facilitated donor family authorization for research donation of kidneys that would not be transplanted. LifeNet Health's role included placing organs on preservation pumps before and after drone flights for biopsy and assessment. The study demonstrated that drone transportation did not negatively affect organ integrity.
• NASA Langley Research Centerflagship / coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 April 2026NASA Langley Research Center and UNOS signed a Space Act Agreement to jointly study using drone technology for faster, more reliable organ transport. NASA contributes aeronautics expertise including advanced modeling, flight planning, and BVLOS drone capabilities. Initial tests use NASA's CERTAIN facility to evaluate drone performance with biological materials. Phase one develops instrumentation to measure temperature, vibration, and altitude affecting organs during UAV flights. On June 5, 2026, teams successfully completed a groundbreaking study transporting human kidneys by drone beyond visual line of sight, with preliminary findings showing no evidence of organ damage.
• Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)flagship / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNOS serves as the primary federal contractor for the OPTN, operating the national organ matching system (UNet), managing OPTN data, and supporting policy development. The OPTN is a public-private partnership that links all professionals involved in the U.S. organ donation and transplantation system. Under the extension agreement effective December 30, 2025, UNOS continues some OPTN work while other functions transfer to HRSA or other contractors.
• Transplant Management Forum (TMF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTMF is a UNOS-affiliated community of transplant professionals focused on management excellence and quality improvement. TMF hosts an annual conference with educational sessions and awards (Heckenkemper Award) and collaborates on initiatives such as the Transplant Quality Staffing Collaborative.
• Donate Life AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDonate Life America manages the National Donate Life Registry, the official organ donor registration system for the United States. UNOS directs potential donors to register through Donate Life America's RegisterMe.org platform, and the organizations collaborate on public education about organ donation.
• Organ Donation and Transplantation AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNOS partnered with the Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance's Transplant Quality Staffing Collaborative to design a survey capturing how transplant quality teams are staffed and operated. The survey results feed into the UNOS Transplant Quality Dashboard.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Epic Systems: Largest U.S. EHR vendor, used by most major transplant hospitals and integrated with UNOS data flows. Comparable as a broad incumbent healthcare IT platform that sits adjacent to (and sometimes competes with) UNOS Tools for analytics, reporting, and clinical workflow functionality at transplant centers.
• Health Catalyst: Healthcare data and analytics platform serving large hospital systems, including analytics for clinical and operational improvement. Comparable to UNOS Tools as a competing analytics offering that transplant hospitals could use alongside or instead of UNOS Predict and Benchmark Report.

Emerging players

• MediGO: Healthcare logistics technology company providing real-time tracking and chain-of-custody solutions for organ and tissue transport. Directly comparable to UNOS Organ Tracking Service as a competitor in OPO-facing organ logistics technology.
• TransMedics Group: Commercial-stage medical technology company whose Organ Care System preserves and transports donor organs. Comparable to UNOS at the transplant logistics intersection, with overlapping customer base among OPOs and transplant centers seeking improved organ utilization.

Regional players

• Eurotransplant Foundation: International organ allocation organization coordinating organ matching across eight European countries. Comparable to UNOS as a multi-country organ matching and allocation body with similar algorithms, donor registries, and transplantation data assets, serving as a benchmark peer for international consulting.
• NHS Blood and Transplant: U.K. national authority that manages blood, organ, and tissue donation across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Comparable to UNOS as a single national operator of organ matching and transplantation infrastructure, but in a different geography; a direct counterpart that UNOS benchmarks against and supports through international consulting.

Direct peers

• Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR): National database that provides analytic support for the OPTN, publishing program-specific reports on transplant outcomes. Directly comparable as a transplant-data analytics organization serving the same federal and transplant-center customers, and whose metrics drive demand for UNOS Predict.
• Donate Life America: Nonprofit that manages the National Donate Life Registry, the official U.S. organ, eye, and tissue donor registration platform. Comparable to UNOS as the consumer-facing counterpart in the same organ donation ecosystem, with which UNOS collaborates on public education and donor registration.
• Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO): Nonprofit trade association representing the 50+ U.S. OPOs that recover and arrange transport of donated organs. Comparable to UNOS as a member-driven national transplant organization, and a key constituency for UNOS's OPO Tools and Organ Tracking Service.
• CIBMTR (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research): Research collaboration that maintains a clinical outcomes database for hematopoietic cell transplantation. Comparable to UNOS as a transplant-focused registry and outcomes research organization serving clinicians, researchers, and life sciences companies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/UnosFoundation
• Facebookfacebook.com/UnitedNetworkForOrganSharing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/unos
• Instagraminstagram.com/unosnews

Compliance2 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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