Commure

Commure provides ambient AI documentation, clinical workflow automation, and patient engagement tools, with deep MEDITECH integration and HCA Healthcare as a marquee customer. $200M raise July 2025. Named TIME World's Top HealthTech 2025. Acquired Memora Health and other assets. HCA Healthcare pilot with 1,400+ physicians across 50+ sites.

Commure's $200M 2025 raise and MEDITECH-native ambient AI deployment with HCA (1,400+ physicians) makes it the leading ambient AI player in the community-hospital segment that Epic-focused competitors overlook.

commure.com Ambient Clinical AI

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Total raised

$700M

last round growth

Headcount

201-500

approximate · public range

Headquarters

Mountain View

United States

Founded

2017

9 years active

Status

Private

Ambient Clinical AI

Subsector

Ambient Clinical AI

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Funding history

Total raised

$700M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Growth

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Jun 19, 2025	Growth	$200M	—	General Catalyst
Oct 13, 2023	Series E	—	—	General Catalyst
Sep 16, 2021	Series D	$500M	$3.5B	Lux Capital, Greenoaks Capital Partners, Human Capital

Founder backgrounds

Deepika Bodapati

Co-Founder

Co-founder and COO of Commure (formerly Athelas). Bodapati studied biomedical engineering at USC, and as a teenager interned at Stanford's molecular imaging labs, co-authored papers in *Science*, and blogged for *The Huffington Post*. She also conducted research at NASA before co-founding Athelas in 2015 with childhood friend Tanay Tandon. Originally building a blood-imaging device for malaria detection, the company pivoted three times — through remote patient monitoring and revenue-cycle tools — before landing on ambient AI scribing and clinical workflow automation under the Commure brand. A distinguishing trait: Bodapati has been open about the company's multiple pivots, framing repeated strategic reinvention as a core advantage in healthcare rather than a setback.

Hemant Taneja

Co-Founder

Co-founder and executive chairman of Commure, and CEO of General Catalyst. Holds five degrees from MIT. Prior to Commure, co-founded Livongo (acquired by Teladoc for $18.5B in one of digital health's largest exits), Transcarent, and Hippocratic AI — all healthcare-focused ventures that inform Commure's approach to modernizing health system infrastructure. Also an early investor in Stripe, Snap, and Samsara. Published author of *Intended Consequences* (2022) and *The Transformation Principles* (2025), which articulate his frameworks for responsible innovation and applied AI in critical systems.

Tanay Tandon

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Co-founded Athelas (YC S16), a computer-vision blood diagnostics startup, after dropping out of Stanford’s computer science program. Athelas later merged with Commure, creating a combined company valued at $6 billion and backed by over $750M from General Catalyst and others. Prior to healthcare, founded a company called Clipped. A distinguishing public posture: Tandon explicitly frames Commure as empowering legacy healthcare infrastructure rather than disrupting it, and has pursued aggressive M&A — including the acquisitions of Augmedix and other clinical AI tools — to build the largest ambient documentation provider by health-system footprint, with HCA Healthcare as a cornerstone customer.

AI bull / bear

Bull case

Commure's MEDITECH-native architecture is its strategic superpower. While Abridge, Nabla, and Suki fight over Epic's walled garden, Commure owns the community-hospital segment that Epic-focused competitors structurally cannot serve. MEDITECH runs roughly 25% of U.S. hospitals, and those mid-sized systems have been starved for ambient AI options. The HCA Healthcare deployment — 1,400 physicians across 50-plus sites — is not a cautious pilot; it is enterprise-scale validation from one of the largest health systems in the country. That proof point will unlock MEDITECH's installed base faster than any sales pitch. The $200 million June 2025 round, led by General Catalyst, provides ample runway and signals insider conviction. The Memora Health acquisition extends Commure's footprint into patient engagement, turning a point-solution scribe into a platform that captures workflow at both ends of the encounter. If MEDITECH shops standardize on Commure the way Epic shops have standardized on Abridge, the company locks in a durable, defensible franchise.

Bear case

Commure's $700 million in total funding raises hard questions about capital efficiency and exit viability. The MEDITECH-native strategy is a moat, but it is also a ceiling: Epic and Cerner together control more than 60% of the acute-care EHR market, and Commure is structurally excluded from those accounts. The addressable market may simply be too small to justify the capital raised. HCA Healthcare is a marquee win, but concentration risk is acute — if the enterprise rollout stalls or HCA renegotiates terms, the narrative breaks with no near-term replacement of comparable scale. Meanwhile, Abridge continues to rack up Epic-integrated academic medical center wins, and EHR vendors themselves are building native ambient capabilities that could commoditize third-party scribes. The Memora Health acquisition adds integration risk and complexity at a moment when focus matters most. Commure may be the best ambient AI company in a segment that ultimately proves too narrow to support a standalone outcome.

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Hemant Taneja

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Tanay Tandon

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

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Deepika Bodapati

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Dhruv Parthasarthy

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Ian Shakil

Chief Strategy Officer

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Hersh Solanki

Chief Business Officer

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Products

Commure Ambient AI
Commure Ambient AI is an ambient AI-powered medical scribe that automatically captures and transcribes provider-patient interactions in real time. It converts audio recordings, images, and existing notes into structured, EHR-ready clinical documentation within minutes. Designed for physicians and clinicians across all care settings, it reduces administrative burden and allows providers to focus more on patient care. Commure Ambient AI is deployed at scale with HCA Healthcare, where it is used by 1,400+ physicians across 50+ hospitals.
Commure Autonomous Coding
Commure Autonomous Coding is an AI-powered medical coding solution that automates the revenue cycle by converting clinical documentation into accurate billing codes. It helps healthcare organizations reduce coding backlogs, improve claim accuracy, and accelerate reimbursement. The product integrates deeply with existing EHR and revenue cycle systems to stream workflows for coders, billers, and health system finance teams.
Commure Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)
Commure's RCM platform is a comprehensive suite of revenue cycle tools spanning patient scheduling, registration, charge capture, claims management, and payment processing. It leverages AI to optimize every stage of the revenue cycle, reducing administrative waste and improving financial performance for health systems, hospitals, and physician practices. The platform integrates with MEDITECH and other major EHRs.
Commure Patient Engagement
Commure Patient Engagement is an AI-driven patient experience and care coordination platform that enables personalized patient journeys, automated outreach, appointment scheduling, and pre-visit intake. It helps health systems improve patient satisfaction, reduce no-show rates, and streamline communication between providers and patients across virtual and in-person care settings.

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Founder backgrounds

Deepika Bodapati

Hemant Taneja

Tanay Tandon

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News 5/20/26

Commure raises $70M, boosting post-money valuation to $7B

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