Valerie Health

Valerie Health is a San Francisco-based healthcare software company that automates front-office administrative work for independent medical practices and provider groups. The company embeds AI agents into a clinic's existing tools and workflows — including EMR, practice management and fax systems — to handle referral processing, fax and document handling, patient scheduling, and growth analytics, rather than shipping a separate application that staff must learn. Human reviewers employed by Valerie Health remain in the loop to check the software's autonomous actions.

The company positions its offering as an "AI front office": it takes over the operational layer that sits between patient and provider and executes the work on the practice's behalf. Product areas listed on its site are referral automation, fax and document automation, automated scheduling, and growth analytics, organized under document and communications platform layers. Management has said it intends to expand into voice AI agents for patient follow-ups and to build toward a broader platform covering the full front-to-back administrative workflow.

Valerie Health frames its mission around reversing the decline of independent practice, citing that the share of U.S. doctors in independent practices fell from 79% in 1988 to 47% in 2022, and arguing that administrative burden and cost pressure push groups toward hospital employment or private equity consolidation.

Founding story

Pete (Peter) Shalek and Nitin Joshi co-founded the company; Fortune reports the company was started in 2023, while Business Insider and investor Primary Ventures state a 2024 founding. Shalek, the CEO, previously co-founded digital mental health startup Joyable, which was sold to AbleTo. Joshi co-founded Uber Health and spent two years as an engineering manager at Stripe. The company name was formed from the initials of the founders' children.

Business model

B2B software and services sold to independent physician groups; Valerie Health integrates into customers' existing EMR, practice management and fax systems and performs administrative execution on their behalf, with its own staff reviewing the AI agents' autonomous actions. Sources do not disclose pricing or contract structure.

Sources do not state pricing terms. The company began selling its technology in 2025 and reports revenue growth from customer contracts with independent provider groups.

Traction

Customers include several of the largest independent provider groups in the U.S. across multiple specialties. Reported outcomes include over 5% increases in new patient visits (with average patient volume increases of 5–7% cited by the CEO), sixfold customer ROI, and median referral time-to-entry as low as 19 minutes. Revenue tripled quarter over quarter in the most recent quarter, and the CEO expects 6–7x revenue growth in the following year.

Latest developments

On December 16, 2025 the company announced a $30 million Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (total funding $39 million). Proceeds are intended for voice support tooling, additional operations and engineering hiring, and improved analytics, alongside continued customer acquisition.