Healthliant Ventures

Name

Healthliant Ventures

Legal name

Healthliant Ventures

Website

https://healthliant.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Healthliant Ventures is the innovation arm of Tanner Health System, serving as a strategic partner and real-world clinical proving ground for healthcare startups across AI, digital health, and MedTech.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Carrollton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Strategic Partnership and Licensing: Healthliant Ventures generates value by partnering with healthcare startups to validate, license, and scale their solutions. While not explicitly leading with capital investments, follow-on investments are the norm. The venture arm drives revenue to partner businesses by validating, licensing and scaling their solutions, while also partnering with investors to help startups access funding needed to grow in the market.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Healthliant Ventures is a strategic venture partner to healthcare startups, offering product validation, co-development, and commercialization services through Tanner Health's real-world healthcare system proving ground. The venture connects startups with clinical and operational leaders, healthcare data, EHR integration testing environments, and a network of clinical and venture partners to help them expand into other health systems. It generates value by validating, licensing, and scaling partner solutions while making follow-on investments, prioritizing partnership and customer relationships over traditional capital deployment.

Product overview

Healthliant Ventures is the innovation arm of Tanner Health, operating as a strategic partner to healthcare startups seeking to validate products, co-develop solutions, and market them to other health systems. Rather than offering a single unified product, Healthliant provides a portfolio of partnership services (commercialization, sales assistance, co-development) and serves as a proving ground for partner products. The portfolio includes Hyro's Clara AI voice assistant for patient call support, Corti's Symphony for medical coding, Ethermed's prior authorization automation platform, Worki's Career Amplifier workforce platform, Optellum's Virtual Nodule Clinic for lung cancer detection, and InStockRx's medication stewardship platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Startup Partnership Services Strategic partnership services for healthcare startups including commercialization (hard referrals to C-suite decision-makers at other organizations), sales process support (credibility establishment and decision-making acceleration), and introductions across the venture's clinical and investor partner network. Targeted at healthcare startups seeking to validate products, co-develop solutions, and expand to other health systems.
• Co-Development and Validation Sandbox A real-world proving ground provided to healthcare startups using Tanner Health's clinical environment, including access to clinical and operational leaders, healthcare data, clinical workflow expertise, and an integration sandbox supporting Epic EHR testing. Enables startups to validate, test, and refine digital health and medical device solutions before market deployment.

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability11 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• InStockRxcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 June 2026InStockRx partnered with Tanner Health to move beyond traditional medication inventory management toward a model of total medication stewardship. The platform eliminates medication waste by identifying medications nearing their 'structural gap' and moving them to the point of care before they become unusable, ensuring that every dose is used for treating a patient.
• OptellumflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2026Tanner Health and Healthliant Ventures partnered with Optellum to launch the Virtual Nodule Clinic AI platform, designed to assist clinicians in identifying and risk-assessing patients with potentially cancerous lung nodules. The technology uses advanced imaging analytics and machine learning to assess lung nodule malignancy risk, enabling earlier detection while reducing unnecessary invasive procedures. This deployment marks one of the first regional health systems in Georgia to implement the FDA-cleared AI technology system-wide.
• HyrocoreTechnology or Integration · 29 May 2026Tanner Health launched Clara, a bilingual AI voice chat assistant powered by Hyro's Responsible AI Assistant Platform, to provide 24/7 call support and reduce patient hold times. Clara autonomously handles common tasks including appointment management, scheduling, and prescription inquiries, integrating with Epic EHR and Cisco telephone systems. This deployment represents Healthliant Ventures' investment in emerging technologies through its innovation arm.
• WorkicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 April 2026Worki partnered with Tanner Health to deploy its Career Amplifier platform, representing the first live implementation of Worki's AI Workforce Unifying Infrastructure. The platform connects fragmented talent data across HR, scheduling, credentialing and workforce management systems to deliver personalized career guidance at scale. Healthliant Ventures co-led Worki's pre-seed funding round, supporting the strategic partnership.
• CorticoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026Corti released Symphony for Medical Coding, an agentic AI model that outperforms OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Oracle, and Google in medical coding accuracy benchmarks by more than 25%. Healthliant Ventures co-developed the solution with Corti and called the methodology behind the Code Like Humans framework 'the most promising approach to medical coding we've seen.'
• EthermedflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 February 2026Ethermed partnered with Healthliant Ventures to pilot integration of its prior authorization automation platform into Tanner Health's Epic-based care delivery systems. The platform achieves 90% automation, processing 13,150 authorizations daily with an average processing time of 3.9 seconds, having completed over 4.8 million authorizations in 2025. The partnership aims to eliminate prior authorization delays directly within provider workflows.
• Tanner HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTanner Health is the parent organization of Healthliant Ventures. It is comprised of five hospitals in west Georgia and east Alabama, as well as Tanner Medical Group — one of metro Atlanta's largest multi-specialty physician groups. Tanner Health provides the real-world proving ground for Healthliant Ventures' startup partnerships.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Mass General Brigham Innovation: The innovation office of Mass General Brigham, supporting commercialization of clinical and digital health innovations. Operates a similar validation-and-investment model anchored to a major academic health system.
• Mayo Clinic Platform: Mayo Clinic's platform for scaling digital health and AI startups through clinical validation, data, and EHR access. A direct large-scale analog to Healthliant's proving-ground model, with a much deeper clinical and data footprint.
• UPMC Enterprises: The venture and innovation arm of UPMC, investing in and co-developing healthcare technology with portfolio companies. Comparable as a health-system-affiliated corporate VC with capital deployment, validation, and commercialization capabilities.
• Cleveland Clinic Innovations: The corporate venture and commercialization arm of Cleveland Clinic, one of the largest US health systems. Operates a comparable model of validating, investing in, and commercializing healthcare startups, but with materially larger clinical and capital resources than Healthliant.
• Bon Secours Mercy Health Innovations: Innovation function within one of the largest US nonprofit health systems, pursuing digital health partnerships and investments. A regional/multi-state peer health system innovation arm with a comparable nonprofit ownership profile.

Emerging players

• Plug and Play Health: Global innovation platform running health-focused accelerator and corporate venture programs with healthcare partners. Comparable as an intermediary that connects startups to health system validators, though broader and less vertically integrated than Healthliant.
• AVIA (now hc1): Healthcare innovation network that helps health systems identify, evaluate, and deploy digital health solutions. Overlaps with Healthliant's mission of bridging health systems with emerging healthcare technology vendors.

Direct peers

• Redesign Health: Healthcare venture studio that builds and co-leads companies from inception. Redesign Health co-led Worki's $2.75M pre-seed with Healthliant Ventures, making it the most directly comparable operating peer and frequent co-investor.
• Cedars-Sinai Accelerator: Health system accelerator program providing startups with clinical validation, mentorship, and pilot opportunities. Most directly comparable to Healthliant as a regional health system-led accelerator for healthcare technology startups.

Others

• Prinnovo: Co-founded by Healthliant team members Mark Rainosek and Jay Brennan, Prinnovo assists health systems in establishing innovation partner portfolios. A closely adjacent service provider in the same health-system-innovation ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments4 records

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