Blaze.tech raises $8.5 million

Today we're announcing an $8.5 million pre-seed round, with new capital from Friale, a healthcare-focused venture firm founded by the family behind HCA Healthcare, the nation's largest hospital operator. Blaze is Friale's first investment.

The problem we built Blaze to solve

Every week, we watch the same thing happen. Someone builds a prototype with AI, demos it to a customer, and gets real excitement in the room. Then the project stalls because the app isn't connected to the systems healthcare actually runs on, and it doesn't have the compliance that real patient data demands.

"Our mission is to make building healthcare software radically easier, so anyone with an idea to improve healthcare can have the power to build it," said Nanxi Liu, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Blaze.tech. "We built Blaze for that last mile — production apps that handle real patient data, write back into EHRs, and send prescriptions nationwide."

Speed only matters if you can trust what you ship

Blaze generates multi-portal applications, fully structured relational databases, and end-to-end workflows in minutes. What makes that usable in healthcare is everything underneath it.

"In healthcare, speed only matters if you can trust what you ship," said Tina Wojcik, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Blaze.tech. "That's why we pair AI generation with deterministic, auditable workflows, guardrails on every AI action, and separate development, staging, and production environments to protect live patient data. Healthcare teams get the velocity of AI with the control of enterprise software baked in from day one."

Blaze is SOC 2 Type II certified and the only AI app builder with HITRUST e1 certification. That comes with signed BAAs, full audit trails, native e-prescribing, and EHR integrations.

Who builds on Blaze

From individual doctors to Fortune 500s, healthcare organizations use Blaze to build HIPAA-compliant solutions tailored to how they operate. With Blaze, patient portals, scheduling, custom EMRs, billing, and prescribing workflows are optimized for each organization’s unique operations.

Kiaora runs its entire online GLP-1 and hormone-therapy prescribing business on Blaze; The Care Connexion runs its therapist-referral platform on it. Larger provider groups use Blaze to automate clinical workflows inside their EHRs.

Why Friale

Friale brings decades of Frist family leadership in American healthcare alongside its capital. Bryan Frist's grandfather co-founded HCA Healthcare, and the family remains its largest shareholder. His father, Bill Frist, is a heart surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader.

"Surrounded by healthcare my entire life, I have seen how high the bar is for bringing new ideas safely into the American healthcare system," said Bryan Frist, Co-Founder of Friale. "That bar is exactly why healthcare software is so slow to build, and why Blaze matters. There's no platform that ships compliant healthcare apps as fast as Blaze. We believe healthcare's next generation of software gets built on Blaze, and when it does, America will have faster, better, more affordable care."

"U.S. healthcare spends close to a trillion dollars a year on administration — much of it pure waste that makes care slower and worse. The answer is better software, but healthcare's compliance bar has made it nearly impossible to build. Until Blaze," said Nick Alexander, Co-Founder of Friale. "Nanxi and Tina have built the best product in the category, and the market is proving it. The fastest-growing healthcare startups and the largest provider groups now run core operations on Blaze."

What's next

We're putting the new capital toward three things: expanding Blaze's healthcare-specific product capabilities, deepening integrations with health systems and clearinghouses, and growing the team to keep up with customer demand.

If you've got a prototype that's stuck at the compliance wall or a workflow your EHR was never going to handle — start building on Blaze or reach us at hello@blaze.tech.