Artificial intelligence native platform Assured has secured $19 million in Series A funding to automate provider authentication and onboarding to AI agents.
Insight Partners led the funding round, with participation from existing investors First Round Capital and Kindred Ventures.
“Across healthcare, provider certification and enrollment remains some of the most difficult and costly parts of expansion,” Insight Partners Managing Director Teddie Wardi said in a statement. “Tools built for this category act as systems of record that leave the actual work to humans. Assured is the first platform to do the work itself. The shift from software that tracks processes to software that executes processes is why we led this round.”
Rahul Shivkumar, co-founder and president of Assured, told Fierce Healthcare that the company plans to use the funding to expand its research and development and go-to-market teams.
“We have strong interest in new products from existing customers and the market, so we really want to build them out quickly,” Shivkumar said.
Shivkumar said Assured has raised $25 million to date, following a $6 million seed funding round in September 2025.
Founded in 2024, Assured provides an AI-powered platform for provider network management built for healthcare organizations to onboard providers.
According to executives, the company currently works with more than 100 medical institutions. Its platform works directly within the authentication and payer registration process, with agents validating data against over 2,000 primary sources. The solution speeds up provider authentication by 30%, executives said.
Assured is also an NCQA Certification Verification Organization, the industry gold standard for credential quality. The company provides health systems such as Houston Methodist to digital health companies such as Tono Health, Blossom Health, and Birches Health.
Shivkumar said customer feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive” and that customers are looking for a platform that offers multiple solutions. The company plans to help healthcare organizations automate “more complex workflows” such as entitlement in early 2027, he said.
“Not only do we help providers get on the platform faster, we also help streamline many of the insurance processes, which means we can bill providers so they can see patients faster,” Shivkumar said.
