Avant Garde
Cambrdige, US · Founded 2014 · Delaware corporation · 49 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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Avant-garde Health provides software that gives healthcare providers detailed visibility into clinical, financial, and operational data across physicians, departments, and hospital systems to identify improvement opportunities and reduce costs. The platform enables providers to benchmark performance, compare findings across departments, and develop actionable strategies to improve care value and clinical outcomes.
Also known as Avant-garde Health · Avant-Garde Health
Founders & leadership
Avant Garde was founded in 2014 by Derek Haas.
Board
Investors · 4
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Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$16.5M disclosed across 2 rounds · 2017–2022
▶$12.5MraisedMar 2022 · 15 investors · Other Health CareRule 506(b)
- Matthew Rhodes-KropfDirector
- David FrankelDirector
- Philip LewisDirector
- Derek HaasExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $12.7M
- Amount sold
- $12.5M
- First sale
- Feb 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$3.9MraisedMay 2017 · 11 investors · Other Health CareRule 506(b)
- Derek HaasExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $3.9M
- Amount sold
- $3.9M
- Minimum investment
- $12.5K
- First sale
- May 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Avant-garde Health is a healthcare data analytics company whose software gives hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and individual physicians granular visibility into the clinical, financial and operational drivers of care. The platform surfaces details such as supply costs, operating room times and post-discharge spending, broken out by physician, department, hospital, ASC and peer provider, so that customers can locate specific improvement opportunities.
The product line is organized around surgical performance: surgical cost management, surgical coding optimization, surgical quality and outcomes optimization, PACU and OR throughput, and support for the CMS TEAM model. Its named software offering is CareMeasurement. Beyond software, the company offers advisory work in which its team helps clients build "playbooks" that translate analytic findings into specific action steps and then track results over time.
Customer-facing audiences include hospital leadership (organizational savings, profitability, data-driven decisions), service line administrators (operational efficiency, benchmarking, physician engagement) and physicians and surgeons (peer benchmarking, OR efficiency, length of stay, readmission rates).
Business model
Software-and-services model: the company provides an analytics platform (CareMeasurement) to provider organizations and complements it with consulting-style engagements in which its team helps clients design and execute improvement plans and track outcomes over time.
Traction
The company names New England Baptist, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Gundersen Health System as clients, and publishes case studies covering Mass General Brigham - Newton Wellesley, Penn State - Hershey Medical and Rothman Orthopedics. Reported client results include a $2,300 reduction in average cost per case, a 33% reduction in discharges to skilled nursing and inpatient rehab settings, a 15% decrease in 90-day readmission rates and a 13% reduction in average length of stay; one hospital client is cited as saving $5,900 per case, with 10% lower surgical supply costs, a 44% reduction in length of stay, a 49% reduction in post-acute care costs and an 86% reduction in 90-day readmissions.
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Market position
Operates in the healthcare provider analytics and value-based care segment, focused specifically on surgical cost, quality and throughput measurement rather than broad enterprise health IT.
Positions on the depth of cost and operational detail it exposes (supply cost, OR time, post-acute spending) at physician and department level, automated TDABC costing, cross-provider benchmarking, and an implementation team that helps convert insights into action plans. The company also cites an academic publishing record, including 44 journal articles and 11 Harvard Business Review articles co-authored since 2014.
Technology
The platform ingests EMR, financial and patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) data and combines it with claims data, benchmarking datasets and proprietary algorithms to clean, catalog and risk-adjust the data and to automate time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC). Users then evaluate performance, quantify true costs and identify opportunities to reduce supply and personnel costs and improve outcomes.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales to provider organizations, supported by published case studies, research and publications, blog content on value-based healthcare, and a research group focused on value-based health care.
Hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, and physicians and surgeons — particularly orthopedic and surgical service lines — with buyers spanning hospital leadership, service line administrators and clinicians.
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Key figures
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Founder mafia
3 people who came through Avant Garde went on to found or lead other companies.
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primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Avant Garde do?
- Avant-garde Health sells healthcare data analytics software that helps hospitals, ASCs and surgeons cut surgical costs and improve outcomes.
- Who founded Avant Garde?
- Avant Garde was founded by Derek Haas in 2014.
- Who are Avant Garde's investors?
- Avant Garde's investors include Founder Collective, Fulcrum Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Tectonic Ventures.
- How much funding has Avant Garde raised?
- Avant Garde has disclosed $16.5M raised across 2 rounds.
- Where is Avant Garde headquartered?
- Avant Garde is headquartered in Cambrdige, US.