Sage Care, a newly publicly-launched platform aimed at addressing inefficiencies in healthcare navigation, announced it has raised $20 million in funding. Yosemite led the round with support from General Catalyst, Metrodora (backed by Chelsea Clinton), OVTR.VC, SV Angel, Liquid 2, Seven Stars, Refract Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, and Apollo Ono.
Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2024, Sage Care deploys clinically intelligent AI agents and advanced optimization algorithms to streamline patient interactions with the healthcare system. Its platform has already shown potential to help health systems increase revenue by 15–20 % through improved care coordination, accurate specialist matching, optimized scheduling, and triage.
The solution tackles administrative bottlenecks by enabling providers to: handle patient calls and messages around the clock, manage appointment scheduling, referrals, and insurance verification, and coordinate follow-up for diagnostics, care plans, and medication adherence. Agents are customizable, rapidly deployable within 48 hours, and compatible with existing hospital and clinic workflows and policies.
Sage Care already serves regional multispecialty clinics and large health system partners, including Jiva Health, with upcoming deployments planned at Bronson Healthcare and White Plains Hospital. The company emphasizes that by streamlining the front office of healthcare, providers increase appointment volume and reduce revenue loss from no-shows and mismatches.
The founders—Dr. Caesar Djavaherian (Chief Medical Officer), Justin Ho (CEO), and Chris Blumenberg (CTO) bring experience and expertise in healthcare, self-driving, and automation industries. Justin Ho remarked that the team’s background in routing, automation, and complex AI systems allowed Sage Care to address a navigation challenge faced by millions of Americans.
The new capital will support Sage Care’s mission to scale across health systems, expand its team, drive product development, and optimize operational efficiency for provider organizations.
KEY QUOTES:
“Millions of Americans are getting lost in our healthcare system. Patients call in looking for help and are unable to reach the right provider. During meetings with leaders at over 75 health systems across the country, we realized our team could solve what is essentially a navigation issue. We’re bringing our technical expertise in routing, automation, and complex AI systems to healthcare with the hopes of helping as many people as possible get the care that they deserve. This funding allows us to bring our vision to life with our partners and we’re incredibly grateful for their support.”
Justin Ho, CEO, Sage Care
“The way healthcare is designed today for a patient to obtain access to the right care at the right time is inefficient for healthcare providers and often results in suboptimal patient experience. The care navigation operating system, Sage, addresses these complexities and can help us streamline the journey to offer more accessible care to our patients. We believe that Sage mirrors many of Bronson’s important cultural values, and we look forward to embarking on this multi-year journey with them.”
Dr. Ash Goel MD, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Bronson Healthcare
“Sage Care has the unique vision to not only replace legacy IT systems with AI, but to totally reinvent the front-office of healthcare around this technology.”
Matt Bettonville, Investor, Yosemite
