Trase

Trase is a McLean, Virginia-based company that develops a full-stack agentic AI platform for high-stakes, regulated environments including healthcare, defense/government and regulated enterprises. Its stack has three main components: Trase Origin, an operating system used to orchestrate, secure and govern AI agents across cloud, on-premises and edge deployments; Trase Leagues, a marketplace of pre-built, configurable agents; and Trase Arena, an SDK for building and launching custom agents on Trase OS. The company describes the platform as HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant, supporting unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, immutable audit trails, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and a judgment layer that routes certain decisions to humans.

Packaged agent workflows advertised by the company include nurse rostering, contract intelligence, policy enforcement, insurance verification, program risk evaluation, audit trail, claims scrubbing, public comments, prior authorization, denials management, statute research, credentialing, acquisition oversight, patient intake and referral management. Trase also develops edge-deployed specialized language models so customers can run agents where their data resides rather than moving data to a vendor environment. Deployment is presented as a four-step process — connecting existing systems, selecting or building agents, defining governance policies and approvals, and launching — with a stated target of production use in under 30 days.

The company was co-founded by Grant Verstandig (CEO) and Joe Laws (Chief Architect), and is associated with venture studio/investor Red Cell Partners. Leadership includes President Baskar Sridharan, CTO Srirama Koneru (a former AWS Bedrock general manager who joined in November 2025), CPO Michael Kilberry, CMO Katie Griff, CFO Barrett Yates-Mack, CMO (medical) Harry Phillips, MD, General Counsel Andrew Ngo and Chief Growth Officer Naimish Patel, plus national security advisors including former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper, George Barnes and Veronica Daigle.

Founding story

Trase was co-founded by Grant Verstandig, who serves as CEO, and Joe Laws, Chief Architect. The company is affiliated with Red Cell Partners, which lists Trase among its companies and handles its press contact.

Business model

Trase sells an AI agent operating system and a catalog of pre-built, configurable agents to enterprise and government customers, plus an SDK for customers to build their own agents on the platform. Deployments can run in customer cloud, on-premises or edge environments so that customer data remains under customer control. Sources do not disclose pricing or contract structures.

Not disclosed in the available sources; the company markets an agent marketplace, an operating system and an SDK to enterprise, health system and government buyers.

Traction

Company-reported benchmarks across deployed workflows cite production go-live in under 30 days, 99.8% administrative work reduction and more than $25M in annualized value creation. At Duke University Health System's Division of Cardiology, Trase agents automate routing of over 5,000 monthly faxes; initial observations reported fax triage 7.1x faster than manual processing, roughly 1,395 staff hours saved per month and about $285,450 in annual staff capacity unlocked, with peer-reviewed research described as forthcoming. Headcount reached 55 as of June 2026.

Latest developments

In June 2026 Trase closed a $107M seed round led by ARCH Venture Partners with participation from Red Cell Partners, to be used to expand its go-to-market team and continue building Trase Origin; one report also cites plans for strategic tuck-in acquisitions in agentic AI. Through July and August 2026 the company published material on its Duke Health deployment, defense AI governance and data sovereignty, and continued hiring across engineering, product and sales.