Why We Invested In Alaffia Health — Reducing Fraud, Waste and Abuse in Healthcare Payments

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Excited to announce our investment alongside Arthemis in the $5M seed of Alaffia Health which uses machine learning to identify and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse (FW&A) in healthcare claims. Tau Ventures is an AI-first fund in Silicon Valley investing primarily in seed and we occasionally take later bets when we see immense promise. We are investing in US / Canada but in exceptional cases will consider a deal outside. Alaffia was founded in 2020 in NYC and impressed us with (1) a strong need, (2) building an execution-focused team, and (3) creating a differentiated product. 1) The Need The…...

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Amit Garg I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.