Avandra
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Avandra provides a platform for secure medical image exchange and management across healthcare organizations, enabling clinicians and care facilities to access and share imaging studies through a unified workflow.
Also known as Avandra Imaging
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Avandra (Avandra Imaging) operates a federated network for clinical imaging and associated clinical data. The platform connects directly to PACS and vendor neutral archives (VNAs) across academic medical centers, integrated delivery networks, community hospitals, specialty clinics and outpatient imaging centers, indexing and cataloging imaging data while the data itself remains stored at the originating health institutions. On that infrastructure the company offers two broad capabilities: enterprise image exchange for health systems, allowing images and prior studies to move among hospitals, imaging centers, providers and patients; and access to de-identified, curated, longitudinal imaging datasets linked to clinical context for research, AI model development and regulatory-grade evidence generation.
The network spans CT scans, MRIs, PET scans and echocardiograms. Avandra states that imaging data retains traceable provenance from the originating clinical environment through de-identification, curation and delivery, and that datasets are curated with clinical and imaging expertise and designed to be validated, representative and to minimize bias. The company positions imaging as the starting point for real-world data, in contrast to approaches that begin with claims and electronic health record data.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Ryan Tarzy describes founding Avandra after losing a loved one to cancer and concluding that clinical innovation was not advancing quickly enough for patients. He identified the limited availability of research-quality imaging datasets as a barrier to progress, noting that individual academic medical centers cannot assemble sufficiently diverse datasets within their own walls.
Business model
Avandra connects to health systems' imaging archives and provides image exchange software to provider organizations, while making de-identified, curated imaging datasets available to researchers, AI developers and life sciences organizations. Participating health systems can receive a small return when other researchers access their images, though the company describes institutions as joining primarily for mission reasons.
Commercial activity is directed at biopharma and medical researchers purchasing access to research-ready imaging datasets, alongside image exchange offerings sold to health systems; participating institutions share in compensation when their images are accessed.
Traction
The company reports more than 70 million imaging studies, over 100 healthcare facilities and more than seven years of longitudinal data on its network. In February 2025, the CEO said Avandra planned to reach 200 million patient studies and 100 billion images by the end of 2025 based on systems already contracted and in the network.
Latest developments
In February 2025 Avandra announced a $17.5-17.75 million Series A co-led by Aegis Ventures and SpringRock Ventures, with participation from health systems Memorial Hermann and Northwell Health among others. Murray Brozinsky of Aegis Ventures and Kirsten Morbeck of SpringRock Ventures joined the board, and the company said proceeds would fund hiring, platform development, network expansion and commercial scaling with biopharma and researchers.
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Market position
Avandra describes its network as one of the largest connected networks of clinical imaging data for research and AI development, and in funding coverage it was characterized as the world's largest federated network for medical imaging and clinical data. It targets a gap in imaging data accessibility outside radiology, where fields such as neurology, cardiology and oncology have had limited access to large curated imaging sets.
Rather than aggregating claims and EHR data, Avandra begins with imaging sourced at the archive level, keeping data resident at health systems in a federated model and linking images to longitudinal clinical context with documented provenance through de-identification and curation. It is embedded in existing image exchange infrastructure already used for continuity of care.
Technology
The platform connects directly to PACS and VNA systems at provider sites. Imaging data stays securely at the health institutions and is indexed and cataloged within Avandra's federated network, with de-identification, curation and traceable data lineage applied before delivery. The company cites the technical challenge of handling billions of large imaging files and the cost of cloud storage for imaging as core problems it addresses.
Go-to-market
Avandra builds a network of contracted health systems and provider organizations by embedding into their clinical imaging environments and image exchange workflows, then commercializes curated data access to biopharma, researchers and AI companies. It has dedicated leadership for life sciences and for image sharing sales, and used its Series A to hire and scale commercial initiatives.
Health systems and imaging providers (academic medical centers, IDNs, community hospitals, specialty clinics, outpatient imaging centers); AI developers; and pharma, biotech and academic researchers.
Geography
Connects to care settings nationwide in the United States; funding coverage lists the company's location as Cleveland, Ohio.
History
The company operated in stealth for approximately three years while establishing patient data safeguards and validating that its technology could handle billions of large imaging files, then launched publicly at the HLTH conference in October (reported in February 2025 coverage). In February 2025 it announced a $17.75 million Series A round.
Risks & controversies
The business depends on handling protected patient imaging data, and the company states it spent three years in stealth partly to ensure patient data could be kept safe; its model relies on de-identification and on continued participation by health systems whose direct financial return from data access is described as small.
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Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsAvandra announced a $17.5 million Series A to expand its federated imaging network, hire, and accelerate its indexing and de-identification technology. Memorial Hermann and Northwell Health participated, along with Greater Ventures, Compass Ventures and independent investor Scott Gaines.
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As part of the Series A, Murray Brozinsky of Aegis Ventures and Kirsten Morbeck of SpringRock Ventures joined Avandra's board of directors.
After roughly three years in stealth, Avandra publicly launched at the HLTH conference in October, according to February 2025 reporting.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Avandra do?
- Avandra runs a federated medical imaging network connecting health systems' PACS and VNAs for image exchange and research data.
- Who founded Avandra?
- Avandra was founded by Ryan Tarzy.
- Who are Avandra's investors?
- Avandra's investors include Aegis Ventures, Vodia Ventures.