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Company overview
What Hygia is building.
Hygia maintains an ongoing, conversational relationship with patients and members on behalf of the healthcare organizations responsible for their care. Through that relationship it develops Relationship Intelligence — an understanding of what a person knows, intends, is struggling with and has actually done — and connects that understanding to action, including human escalation.
We describe the larger category as Healthcare Relationship Infrastructure: the layer healthcare has not built at scale, sitting alongside clinical, claims, pharmacy and care-management systems rather than replacing them.
Market context
Why now.
Several conditions converged rather than a single trend.
Population complexity
People are living longer with multiple chronic conditions, multiple prescribers and multiple care plans to reconcile.
Value-oriented models
Medicare Advantage and similar models place greater weight on engagement, prevention, adherence and follow-through.
Staffing constraints
Healthcare organizations face persistent staffing limits, so engagement cannot scale by adding people alone.
Fragmentation
Patients navigate disconnected networks of providers, plans, pharmacies and services with little continuity between them.
Technology maturity
Conversational technology has matured to the point where sustained, personalised interaction can be delivered at previously impossible scale.
The opportunity
The opportunity is not to automate more healthcare communication. It is to create continuity where continuity has been missing.
Leadership
Who is building it.
Stas Gutkin
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Alexander Shaknovich
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Ayall Schanzer
President & Chief Counsel
Boris Turchak
Chief Financial Officer
Annie Morris
Chief Strategy Officer
Randall Severy
Chief Technology Officer
Michael Borts
Head of Innovation
Bob McDaniel
Chief Commercial Officer, Payers
Dr. Gennady Gekht
Chief Clinical Officer
Carlene Anteau
Chief Marketing Officer
Milestones & materials
Published only when verified.
Hygia does not publish milestone claims, deployment counts or performance results until they are current, verifiable and cleared. Where a figure matters to your diligence, we will provide it with methodology and context directly.
Confidential financing materials are never posted publicly. Diligence documents are shared through a controlled process following an investor conversation.
Investor contact.
Introduce yourself and we will route the conversation to investor relations.