Sansoro Health Secures $5.2M Series A Funding to Standardize EMR Data Interoperability

VCBeat has learned that Sansoro Health recently secured a $5.2 million Series A financing round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The new funds will be used to strengthen the company’s sales and marketing teams. CEO Jeremy Pierotti expects the headcount to grow from the current 16 employees to approximately 35 within the next 12 months, with additional capital allocated to product research and development.

Pierotti also expressed great honor in partnering with Bain Capital Ventures, as BCV fully understands Sansoro’s value proposition and knows exactly how to help innovative companies scale rapidly. But what kind of company is Sansoro Health? And what does their advocated concept of interoperability entail?

Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sansoro Health is a health IT startup founded in 2014. Its team comprises healthcare industry professionals dedicated to improving medical IT systems and enhancing electronic medical record (EMR) interoperability across health systems nationwide.

In July last year, Sansoro Health secured $1.2 million in seed funding from Health Ventures, TreeHouse Health, and angel investors. In the same year, Sansoro Health emerged as the winner of the 10th Venture+Forum Showcase Competition. Developed by Sansoro Health,EmissaryThe software can break down barriers between various electronic medical record (EMR) platforms through its robust networking capabilities, enabling data exchange and sharing across platforms while standardizing data formats.

Leveraging web services, Sansoro'sEmissaryThe application through a universal application programming interface (API) and a unified data model, enabling plug-and-play functionality to rapidly achieve seamless integration with vendors’ existing EMR platforms, thereby transforming closed EMR systems into open platforms.

VCBeat has learned that once installed, the solution can connect to various third-party software and hardware. Developers need only write the application API once, enabling repeated connections to any supported EMR platform at any time. This “build once, use indefinitely” approach saves healthcare systems thousands of dollars. Since its launch in 2015, Emissary has been deployed by nearly 20 medical institutions and handles thousands of API exchange requests per month.

As is well known, APIs are widely used across the entire digital economy, ensuring that institutions can securely exchange critical data. Amazon and UPS collaborate to track shipments via APIs, and APIs have been a crucial factor in sustaining Google’s rapid growth. Today, powerful APIs are entering the healthcare sector. Sansoro Health aims to accelerate the transformation of the healthcare IT ecosystem by enabling real-time interoperability, empowering healthcare organizations to evolve, adapt, and innovate, thereby delivering higher-quality care to patients.

It is also essential to recognize that addressing data interoperability is not merely a technical issue, but also a business one. Some individuals perceive the rapidly evolving APIs as a threat, adopting a defensive stance and erecting administrative barriers. In light of this, Jeremy Pierotti argues that detailed business strategies must also be formulated.

Mentioning their key competitor, Redox Engine, Jeremy Pierotti stated, “We have great respect for Redox, but we still believe our technology is more scalable.”