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Business Insider
a day ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Here's the exclusive pitch deck Ambience Healthcare used to raise $243 million as the AI scribing gold rush hits new highs
Ambience Healthcare just landed a fresh megaround of funding to accelerate its growth. The startup pulled in a $243 million Series C round at the end of July, co-led by Oak HC/FT and Andreessen Horowitz. San Francisco-based Ambience sells ambient transcription software to summarize conversations between doctors and patients. Increasingly, Ambience is also automating the many administrative steps that follow, like medical coding and payment processing. It's one of the best-funded players in a sector awash with investor cash: In the first half of 2025, US healthcare AI startups pulled in 62% of the $6.4 billion invested across digital health, according to Rock Health. A16z is a previous investor in Ambience, first backing the company's Series A, according to PitchBook. But the firm surprised the industry this summer by making a new investment into Ambience's closest competitor, $5.3 billion Abridge. A16z led Abridge's $300 million Series E just a month before Ambience's raise. The firm's double-dipping, a practice that's usually taboo in venture capital, underscores just how frenzied the Silicon Valley gold rush for healthcare AI scribes has become. And the industry is about to face a big shake-up — electronic health records giant Epic plans to release its own AI scribe this month, Politico reported. Epic didn't respond to requests for comment on the reports. Cofounder and chief scientist Nikhil Buduma said in a statement to Business Insider that Ambience is "looking forward to the announcement," arguing that the launch will help Ambience further stand out from the crowd as the startup helps complex academic health systems save money across a range of capabilities. "Epic entering the game will likely help reduce the amount of noise in our market by accelerating the consolidation of low-cost, low-value players who haven't shown the ability to extend beyond simple ambulatory specialties," he said. Ambience was always intended to be more than an AI scribing startup, cofounder and CEO Michael Ng told Business Insider. When the startup raised its seed round in 2020, it included two products in its pitch deck that it planned to build in tandem: one for ambient scribing, and one that would use AI to derive medical codes from clinical notes — a critical step in ensuring doctors get paid by insurance companies for the care they provide. Ambience has over 40 health system customers, including top players like the Cleveland Clinic and Memorial Hermann Health System, and all of them use its scribing tool. The startup has released adjacent products for medical coding and other administrative tasks that its founders say are easy for providers to add on. It's also automating referrals, pre-visit patient summaries, and medical orders like lab tests and prescriptions. When asked about A16z's investment in Abridge, Ng said A16z doesn't sit on Ambience's board, and praised general partner Julie Yoo, who he said has provided crucial support to Ambience from its earliest stages. "It's hard for us to speak on other parts of the other funds that decided to make their own choices," he said. Ambience's existing investors, The OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Optum Ventures, also participated in its Series C. While Ambience has substantially expanded its product lines in the five years since its founding, Ng said the company has built about 10% of the offerings on its road map. But as the tech accelerates, Buduma said, Ambience is a year or two away from fully automating all administrative tasks for providers. "We're sitting here with a clear line of sight to a world where a clinician walks into the room, you can have a conversation with the patient, and everything else is automated in the background by the AI platform," said Buduma. "All of a sudden, you're liberated from the keyboard, and you just get to talk to the patient in front of you." Here's the 15-slide pitch deck Ambience Healthcare used to raise $243 million.
Business Insider
a day ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Here's the exclusive pitch deck Ambience Healthcare used to raise $243 million as the AI scribing gold rush hits new highs
The race to dominate AI-powered medical transcription is speeding up. Ambience Healthcare just landed a fresh megaround of funding to accelerate its growth. The startup pulled in a $243 million Series C round at the end of July, co-led by Oak HC/FT and Andreessen Horowitz. San Francisco-based Ambience sells ambient transcription software to summarize conversations between doctors and patients. Increasingly, Ambience is also automating the many administrative steps that follow, like medical coding and payment processing. It's one of the best-funded players in a sector awash with investor cash: In the first half of 2025, US healthcare AI startups pulled in 62% of the $6.4 billion invested across digital health, according to Rock Health. A16z is a previous investor in Ambience, first backing the company's Series A, according to PitchBook. But the firm surprised the industry this summer by making a new investment into Ambience's closest competitor, $5.3 billion Abridge. A16z led Abridge's $300 million Series E just a month before Ambience's raise. The firm's double-dipping, a practice that's usually taboo in venture capital, underscores just how frenzied the Silicon Valley gold rush for healthcare AI scribes has become. And the industry is about to face a big shake-up — electronic health records giant Epic plans to release its own AI scribe this month, Politico reported. Epic didn't respond to requests for comment on the reports. Cofounder and chief scientist Nikhil Buduma said in a statement to Business Insider that Ambience is "looking forward to the announcement," arguing that the launch will help Ambience further stand out from the crowd as the startup helps complex academic health systems save money across a range of capabilities. "Epic entering the game will likely help reduce the amount of noise in our market by accelerating the consolidation of low-cost, low-value players who haven't shown the ability to extend beyond simple ambulatory specialties," he said. Ambience was always intended to be more than an AI scribing startup, cofounder and CEO Michael Ng told Business Insider. When the startup raised its seed round in 2020, it included two products in its pitch deck that it planned to build in tandem: one for ambient scribing, and one that would use AI to derive medical codes from clinical notes — a critical step in ensuring doctors get paid by insurance companies for the care they provide. Ambience has over 40 health system customers, including top players like the Cleveland Clinic and Memorial Hermann Health System, and all of them use its scribing tool. The startup has released adjacent products for medical coding and other administrative tasks that its founders say are easy for providers to add on. It's also automating referrals, pre-visit patient summaries, and medical orders like lab tests and prescriptions. When asked about A16z's investment in Abridge, Ng said A16z doesn't sit on Ambience's board, and praised general partner Julie Yoo, who he said has provided crucial support to Ambience from its earliest stages. "It's hard for us to speak on other parts of the other funds that decided to make their own choices," he said. Ambience's existing investors, The OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Optum Ventures, also participated in its Series C. While Ambience has substantially expanded its product lines in the five years since its founding, Ng said the company has built about 10% of the offerings on its road map. But as the tech accelerates, Buduma said, Ambience is a year or two away from fully automating all administrative tasks for providers. "We're sitting here with a clear line of sight to a world where a clinician walks into the room, you can have a conversation with the patient, and everything else is automated in the background by the AI platform," said Buduma. "All of a sudden, you're liberated from the keyboard, and you just get to talk to the patient in front of you." Here's the 15-slide pitch deck Ambience Healthcare used to raise $243 million. Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare
Associated Press
29-01-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Ambience Healthcare Joins athenahealth's Marketplace Program to Support Clinicians with AI-assisted Documentation, Point of Care CDI & Coding, and Care Coordination
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire Ambience Healthcare, the leading enterprise AI platform for documentation, CDI & coding, and care coordination, today announced an agreement with athenahealth, Inc through the company's Marketplace program. As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, Ambience's AI technology, which recently received a 97.7% Spotlight Report score from KLAS Research in the Ambient AI category*, is now available to athenahealth's growing network of healthcare providers. 'Ambience is already live with athenahealth customers across a wide variety of specialties and platform capabilities. We are seeing tangible results across time savings and decreased feelings of burnout for clinicians. By improving CDI and coding accuracy, Ambience also pays for itself without needing to ask clinicians to see more patients,' said Mike Ng, CEO and Co-Founder of Ambience Healthcare. 'Joining the athenahealth Marketplace represents an exciting milestone in our journey to bring cutting-edge AI technology to even more clinicians throughout the United States.' Ambience Healthcare's integration within the athenahealth Marketplace offers healthcare organizations a highly customizable and deeply integrated AI-assisted scribing and coding solution. This includes support for ICD-10 and CPT coding, and streamlined generation of patient-facing after-visit summaries. Ambience has built specialty-specific AI models for 100+ specialties and subspecialties, and implementation of the platform involves customization at both the organization and user level. Additionally, Ambience's Marketplace solution is optimized for both mobile and browser-based use, ensuring clinicians across modalities can leverage its powerful technology. athenahealth is a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for medical groups and health systems nationwide. Its electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement tools allow anytime, anywhere access to drive better financial outcomes for practices and enable providers to deliver better quality care. athenahealth's vision is to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. As a Marketplace partner, Ambience Healthcare joins a community of innovative, like-minded healthcare professionals working to bring best-in-class solutions to the athenahealth provider base. To learn more about Ambience Healthcare's new integrated AI application, please visit Ambience Healthcare's product listing page on the Marketplace. *This report was written with limited data. About Ambience Healthcare The mission of Ambience Healthcare is to supercharge clinicians with breakthrough generative AI technology. Leading health systems and provider organizations across North America partner with Ambience Healthcare to reduce clinician burnout, improve system efficiency, and enable high quality care. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma, Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has raised $100M in total funding from Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Optum Ventures, Human Capital, Martin Ventures, AIX Ventures, AirTree Ventures, John Doerr, Jeff Dean, Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel, Anne Wojcicki, Eren Bali, Jay Desai, Nish Bhat, Matt Mochary, and others. To learn more, visit About athenahealth Marketplace The athenahealth Marketplace, the largest EHR app store, is where athenahealth customers find innovative healthcare IT solutions that extend athenahealth products and allow customers to create more personalized experiences to support their organization's specific needs. Customers use Marketplace partner solutions to boost practice efficiency, increase patient satisfaction, and engage patients in their own care. The Marketplace has over 400 solutions across more than 60 medical specialties and capabilities that are seamlessly integrated with athenaOne, athenahealth's network-enabled platform. Learn more at
