● Charta Health just raised an $8.1 million seed round from Bain Capital Ventures.
● Charta's founders left Rockset, which OpenAI acquired last year, to start the healthcare AI company.
● The startup, which uses AI to review patient charts, got $500,000 in contracts within 60 days.
Justin Liu and Scott Morris didn't have any healthcare experience when they left Rockset, the AI infrastructure startup that OpenAI acquired in June. This month, they're announcing an $8.1 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures for their new healthcare AI startup, the company told Business Insider exclusively.
Liu and Morris left Rockset in 2023 to dig deeper into healthcare, the industry in which they felt the tech could make the biggest impact. The two spent a year getting their medical coding credentials and interviewing over 100 healthcare professionals to figure out what healthcare technologies were worth building.
That exploration turned into Charta Health, which is using AI to automate patient chart reviews to help providers capture more revenue and reduce their administrative burdens.
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