Censinet
Boston, US · Founded 2017 · 42 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
Censinet provides a risk management platform for the healthcare industry that connects vendors, products, AI technologies, and internal operations to the clinical and business functions they support. It automates third-party and enterprise risk assessments, uses AI to prioritize exposure, and aligns risk intelligence with continuity and recovery planning to protect care delivery.
Also known as Censinet RiskOps · Censinet, Inc.
Investors · 7
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- $9MraisedJan 2023 · 3 sources
MemorialCare Innovation Fund (lead), Ballad Ventures, Cedars Sinai, Excelerate Health Ventures, HLM Venture Partners, LRVHealth, Rex Health Ventures, Schooner Capital
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Censinet, Inc. is a Boston-based software company whose Censinet RiskOps platform is purpose-built for healthcare risk management. The platform is organized around four capability areas: third-party/vendor and supplier risk (standardized assessments, automated workflows, continuous monitoring), enterprise risk (centralized visibility across cyber, operational, clinical, and business risk domains), systemic risk and resilience (identifying concentrated exposure, operational dependencies, and critical points of failure to support continuity planning), and AI governance (structured evaluation and oversight of artificial intelligence across clinical, operational, ethical, and regulatory domains).
Rather than organizing solely around vendors, assessments, and control frameworks, Censinet connects identified risks to the clinical and operational functions that the underlying technologies support, prioritizing exposure by patient-care and operational impact and surfacing operational dependencies before assessments are completed. The company describes the platform as a cloud-based risk exchange in which healthcare organizations, payers, and vendors share assessment intelligence, reducing duplicated assessment effort and revealing risk patterns across the network. Censinet also publishes healthcare cyber-risk research and commentary, including a Healthcare Cybersecurity & AI Benchmarking Study 2026, and produces the Risk Never Sleeps podcast.
Founding story
Censinet was founded by Ed Gaudet, who serves as CEO, together with healthcare and technology leaders who concluded that traditional risk management models could not handle the scale and complexity of contemporary healthcare environments.
Business model
Censinet sells access to its RiskOps SaaS platform to healthcare organizations, with a network/exchange component in which participating provider organizations, payers, and vendors contribute and reuse shared assessment data.
Traction
Customer testimonials from risk and security executives at Intermountain Health, Emory Healthcare, Faith Regional Health, Baptist Health, and Tower Health; a collaborative risk network spanning healthcare organizations, payers, and more than 55,000 vendors and products.
Latest developments
In November 2025 the company announced that CEO and founder Ed Gaudet would speak on two executive panels at the AIMed25 conference and host live Risk Never Sleeps podcast recordings with Outcomes Rocket. The company reported achieving SOC 2 Type 2 compliance in February 2026, and promotes a Healthcare Cybersecurity & AI Benchmarking Study 2026 alongside an AI governance product line addressing AI exposure in vendor ecosystems.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Positions itself as a healthcare-specific alternative to generic third-party risk management tools, describing RiskOps as the industry's first and only cloud-based risk exchange of healthcare organizations collaborating on cyber risk, and citing a collaborative network of healthcare organizations, payers, and more than 55,000 vendors and products.
Healthcare-exclusive design aligned to clinical workflows, regulatory requirements, and patient-safety implications; mapping of vendor and technology risk to the clinical and operational functions they support; visibility into systemic and dependency-driven exposure before assessments are complete; crowdsourced assessment intelligence shared across a network of participating organizations; and automation intended to expand coverage without added headcount, with one customer reporting a reduction from three to two full-time employees while performing more assessments.
Technology
Cloud-based risk exchange and workflow automation platform (Censinet RiskOps) that standardizes and automates third-party and enterprise risk assessments, applies AI to accelerate analysis and prioritization while preserving human oversight, maintains centralized vendor and product inventories, and aligns with NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. The company reported achieving SOC 2 Type 2 compliance in February 2026 following an independent audit by A-LIGN covering access management, system monitoring, change management, incident response, and vendor security practices.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests on the company website, customer case studies, industry conference participation and executive panels (for example AIMed25), thought-leadership content such as blogs, reports, webinars and a podcast, a benchmarking study program, and a designation as an American Hospital Association Preferred Cybersecurity Provider.
Healthcare provider organizations and health systems (risk, GRC, security, and IT leadership including CISOs and CIOs), payers, and the vendors and product suppliers assessed through the network. Named customer references include Intermountain Health, Emory Healthcare, Faith Regional Health, Baptist Health, and Tower Health.
Geography
Headquartered at 101 Arch Street, Suite 800, Boston, Massachusetts, with customers described as healthcare organizations across the United States.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsCensinet reported achieving SOC 2 Type 2 compliance following an independent audit by A-LIGN covering access management, system monitoring, change management, incident response, and vendor security practices.
Censinet announced that CEO and founder Ed Gaudet would participate in two executive panels at AIMed25 (November 11-12, 2025) and host live Risk Never Sleeps podcast recordings in partnership with Outcomes Rocket.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Censinet do?
- Censinet operates a healthcare-specific risk management platform for third-party, enterprise, systemic, and AI risk.
- Who are Censinet's investors?
- Censinet's investors include Ballad Ventures, Excelerate Health Ventures, HLM Venture Partners, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Schooner Capital, Excel Venture Management, LRVHealth.
- Where is Censinet headquartered?
- Censinet is headquartered in Boston, US.