HCAA · Jun 2026
HCAA promoted Angel Onuoha’s interview and highlighted Avelis’s use of AI agents for claims auditing and payment integrity.
We audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Avelis Health is a YC Summer 2025, San Francisco-based healthcare AI startup that audits medical claims for self-insured employers, TPAs, and health plans. Its core pitch is to use machine learning, clinician review, and voice AI to detect billing/coding/contract errors, prevent overpayments, and recover funds.
Primary product
Payment integrity platform for medical-claims auditing and overpayment recovery
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Health and Human Services
Sub-industry
Healthcare IT / payment integrity
Business model
B2B software
success-fee / savings-share
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Head of Product
Chief of Staff
Work & culture
Small, fast-moving, mission-driven team centered on healthcare cost containment. Public messaging emphasizes trust, auditability, clinician-in-the-loop validation, and operator expertise in self-funded healthcare.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public hiring posts advertised a founding engineer at $150K-$200K plus 1-3% equity and a $5K referral bonus, and a chief of staff at $120K-$150K plus equity and healthcare.
Benefits
Equity
Healthcare
Referral bonus
Product & market
Pricing
Zero implementation fees; charges only for actual recovered savings
Differentiators
- —Audits 100% of claims rather than sampling only high-dollar claims
- —Clinician-in-the-loop review to reduce false positives
- —Voice AI call center for provider outreach and dispute resolution
- —Real-time prevention plus post-payment recovery
- —Accepts raw claims data in common formats such as CSV, 837, and 835
- —Converts summary plan documents and policy rules into auditable claim logic
Technology
Python
TensorFlow
PostgreSQL
AWS
LLMs
machine learning
voice AI
Snowflake
Apache
ELK
Doppler
Dash
Operative
Ada
Longview
Customers
Self-insured employers
Third-party administrators (TPAs)
Health plans
Payment integrity vendors
Competitors
Alaffia Health
Anomaly
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$250K-$350K annual revenue (third-party estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
3.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Voices of Self Funding · Jun 2026
Interview with Angel Onuoha about converting summary plan documents into auditable rules, using voice AI with providers, and the importance of auditability and PHI security.
RefinedNG · Mar 2026
Feature on Avelis’s claim-auditing workflow: 100% claim review, clinician validation, and voice AI for provider follow-up and recovery.
Avelis Health · Jan 2026
Official podcast episode describing how the company uses AI to audit claims, validate findings, and recover overpayments, including discussion of 92% recovery-confidence claims for some audit workflows.
UrbanGeekz · Jun 2025
Reports Avelis Health’s $500k pre-seed backing from Y Combinator, founded by Angel Onuoha and Ahmad Shehu, and describes the initial product direction and customer pain point.
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