Transplant Connect

What Transplant Connect does

Transplant Connect is a US-based medical software company that builds the iTransplant platform for the organ, eye, tissue, and birth tissue donation-transplant workflow. Its software is deployed by hospitals, transplant centers, and organ procurement organizations to manage donor registration, organ matching, transplant coordination, and chain-of-custody for tissue implants, with RFID-based tracking for hospital tissue implant software. Complementary modules include iReferral, an automated donor referral engine, and the iTransplant Mobile App, which provides HIPAA-compliant chat, image sharing, and team geo-tracking for field transplant staff.

The company was founded in 2004 by John Piano and has operated for approximately two decades as a specialist vendor in a narrow clinical vertical. In 2022 it received investment from InVita Healthcare Technologies, and in 2023 it was fully integrated as InVita's Donation-Transplant division, gaining access to broader R&D capacity and cross-sell opportunities into InVita's adjacent human biologics software (blood center, DNA, hospital tissue implant). Following the integration, founder John Piano moved into a strategic role on the InVita executive team and board, and Wade Liu was promoted to Chief Product Officer of InVita and General Manager of the Donation-Transplant division.

Transplant Connect operates as a B2B enterprise software business serving regulated healthcare buyers. Its go-to-market is direct enterprise sales to hospitals and OPOs; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The business model is consistent with vertical SaaS in a mission-critical, regulated workflow: high switching costs, long deployment cycles, and expansion revenue driven by module attach (iReferral, mobile app, RFID) rather than new logo acquisition, given the small universe of US OPOs and transplant centers.

Name

Transplant Connect

Legal name

Transplant Connect

Website

https://transplantconnect.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Transplant Connect builds the iTransplant software platform for organ, eye, tissue, and birth tissue donation-transplant workflows, serving hospitals, transplant centers, and organ procurement organizations as the donation-transplant division of InVita Healthcare Technologies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Donation-Transplant Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Connected Therapeutics & Smart Drug Delivery Monitoring (HLACAFAL)

Keywords

• Donation-transplant software
• Organ procurement software
• Tissue implant tracking
• Donor referral automation
• Healthcare biologics software

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Monica

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Transplant Connect develops and sells the iTransplant Organ, Eye, Tissue and Birth Tissue Donation-Transplant Platform, a comprehensive software solution for managing donor registration, organ matching, and transplant workflows. The offering is complemented by the iReferral automated donor referral module and the iTransplant Mobile App, which provides HIPAA-compliant chat, image sharing, and logistics/team geo-tracking for field transplant teams. The platform is sold to hospitals, transplant centers, and other healthcare organizations to connect and streamline the donation-transplant ecosystem.

Product overview

Transplant Connect operates as the Donation-Transplant division under InVita Healthcare Technologies, offering a unified product ecosystem centered on the iTransplant Platform. The core offering is the iTransplant Organ, Eye, Tissue and Birth Tissue Donation-Transplant Platform, complemented by the iReferral automated donor referral module and the iTransplant Mobile App. Together, these products connect and streamline the donation-transplant ecosystem, enabling partners to manage organ, eye, tissue, and birth tissue donation workflows through a comprehensive digital solution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• iTransplant: Industry-leading and award-winning Organ, Eye, Tissue and Birth Tissue Donation-Transplant Platform.
• iReferral
• iTransplant Mobile App

Products and services

• iTransplant Organ, Eye, Tissue and Birth Tissue Donation-Transplant Platform
• iReferral Automated Donor Referral Technology
• iTransplant Mobile App

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MediGO: Provides real-time organ transportation and logistics technology to OPOs and transplant centers. Comparable to Transplant Connect because both serve the same donation-transplant customer base with mission-critical software, though MediGO focuses on logistics while Transplant Connect focuses on donor/recipient workflow.
• LifeLogics: Blood center and biologics management software vendor that operates alongside Transplant Connect under the InVita Healthcare Technologies umbrella. Comparable as a sibling product serving adjacent human biologics workflows for hospitals and blood centers.

Broad incumbents

• Epic Systems: Dominant US hospital EHR vendor whose systems underpin the IT estates of most transplant centers. Comparable as the broad incumbent platform that Transplant Connect must integrate with and against which it must justify standalone spend.
• Oracle Health (Cerner): Major hospital EHR vendor with deep penetration in large health systems and academic transplant centers. Comparable as a broad incumbent whose transplant-adjacent workflows could expand to encroach on Transplant Connect's niche.
• MEDITECH: Hospital EHR vendor serving community and mid-size hospitals, including transplant programs. Comparable as a broad incumbent EHR that Transplant Connect integrates with at the hospital level.
• Haemonetics: Blood and plasma component management company with software and hardware solutions for hospital transfusion services. Comparable as a broader human biologics vendor serving adjacent workflows that Transplant Connect touches via InVita's blood center unit.

Emerging players

• CareDx: Transplant diagnostics and digital health company serving transplant centers and post-transplant patients. Comparable as a focused transplant ecosystem player whose center-facing software strategy overlaps with Transplant Connect's hospital customer base.
• OrganOx: Medical device company developing organ preservation technology (metra) used during transplant logistics. Comparable as a transplant-ecosystem technology vendor whose success drives transplant volumes that benefit Transplant Connect's platform.
• TransMedics: Organ transplant systems company providing OCS (Organ Care System) technology for lung, heart, and liver preservation and transport. Comparable as a transplant-ecosystem technology vendor whose growth expands the underlying transplant market Transplant Connect serves.

Others

• Veloxis Pharmaceuticals: Specialty pharma company focused on transplant immunosuppression (Envarsus XR). Comparable as an adjacent transplant-ecosystem participant serving the same end-clinicians and transplant centers, though via therapeutics rather than software.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/transplant-connect

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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