Optum backs $70M funding round for AI company

Optum backs $70M funding round for AI company unknown

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, backed a $70 million series B funding round for Ambience Healthcare, a company that creates AI operating systems for healthcare organizations. 

Others contributing to the funding round include Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI Startup Fund, according to a Feb. 6 news release from Ambience. 

Ambience Healthcare customers include UCSF; Dallas-based Memorial Hermann Health System; Walnut Creek, Calif.-based John Muir Health; the Oncology Institute; GI Alliance; Midi Health; and Eventus WholeHealth.