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Basata confirms it has raised $24.5 million in total, including a new $21 million Series A round led by Lan
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The space is getting crowded.
Key facts
- Tennr, a New York-based startup founded in 2021, has raised over $160 million to date, including from Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Lightspeed, and Google Ventures, and is now valued at $605 million
- Pictured above, left to right: Chetan Patel, who is co-founder and president of Basata; Kaled Alhanafi, the company’s CEO; and Vivin Paliath, the company’s third co-founder and CTO
- Kaled Alhanafi, a former Lyft and Cruise executive, and Chetan Patel, who spent a decade building cardiac devices at Medtronic, co-founded Basata after each experienced the problem directly
- For Patel, the issue became personal when his wife fainted on a flight with their young children
Summary
A lot of the conversation around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. Kaled Alhanafi, a former Lyft and Cruise executive, and Chetan Patel, who spent a decade building cardiac devices at Medtronic, co-founded Basata after each experienced the problem directly. For Patel, the issue became personal when his wife fainted on a flight with their young children. Alhanafi describes a parallel experience with his own father, who was referred to three cardiology groups after a serious carotid artery diagnosis. These aren’t unusual outcomes, as nearly anyone who has tried to see a specialist in recent years can attest.