Penguin Ai

Penguin Ai

AI platform automating healthcare workflows

Overview

Penguin AI provides a healthcare AI platform that helps payers and providers automate workflows and reduce repetitive tasks. It offers a flexible platform that clients can use in three ways: start with pre-built digital workers, fine-tune existing small language models on their own data, or build new language models tailored to specific tasks. The platform is designed for rapid deployment, enabling AI solutions to be up and running in 90 days, compared with longer traditional timelines. Revenue comes from platform-as-a-service subscriptions with ongoing support and updates. What sets Penguin AI apart is its domain expertise from leaders with backgrounds at Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare Optum, combining deep healthcare knowledge with an adaptable AI platform that scales across client needs. The company’s goal is to improve operational efficiency and patient care in healthcare by delivering fast, customizable AI tools that address payer and provider workflows.

Significant Headcount Growth

About Penguin Ai

Simplify's Rating
Why Penguin Ai is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Healthcare

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$29.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2024

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What believers are saying

  • September 2025 funding raised $29.7 million, led by Greycroft and backed by UPMC.
  • August 2026 AWS launches widened distribution for medical coding, RCM, UM, and HCC.
  • UPMC partnership gives Penguin Ai validated data, credibility, and a live healthcare buyer channel.

What critics are saying

  • Epic, Oracle Health, and Change Healthcare already own payer-provider workflow entry points.
  • AWS Marketplace commoditizes Penguin Ai, weakening pricing and making churn easier by 2026.
  • CMS and prior-authorization rule changes expose audit claims; one bad denial model triggers contracting exits.

What makes Penguin Ai unique

  • Fawad Butt led data teams at Kaiser, UnitedHealthcare, and Optum for 60 million members.
  • Penguin Ai runs inside customer AWS and Snowflake environments, keeping healthcare data in place.
  • Gwen launched with 100-plus prebuilt digital workers and sub-25-minute deployment claims.

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Funding

Total Funding

$29.7M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

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$30M
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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

25%

1 year growth

25%

2 year growth

45%
PR Newswire
Sep 1st, 2026
Penguin Ai launches medical coding and RCM solutions in AWS Marketplace with 93% appeal overturn rate

Penguin Ai has launched its Intelligent Medical Coding and Intelligent Revenue Cycle Management solutions in AWS Marketplace. The healthcare AI company's platform addresses undercoding and preventable denials by validating codes across more than 72,000 ICD-10 codes. The solutions deploy within customers' own AWS environments, ensuring clinical and billing data never leave the provider's systems. Key features include automated claims scrubbing, denial triage with auto-generated appeal letters, and chart summarisation. Each recommendation includes human-readable reasoning. Penguin Ai offers a 90-day ROI guarantee and reports a 93% appeals overturn rate whilst reducing review cycles from 48 hours to as little as five minutes. The platform integrates with AWS infrastructure and can be procured through consolidated AWS billing.

PR Newswire
Aug 19th, 2026
Penguin Ai launches utilisation management and HCC risk adjustment solutions in AWS Marketplace

Penguin Ai has launched its Utilization Management and HCC Risk Adjustment solutions in AWS Marketplace. The healthcare AI company's platform automates manual review of clinical records against payer medical policies and CMS coding rules. The utilization management solution reduces prior authorisation turnaround from days to under 10 minutes, with up to 92% of cases resolved without human intervention. The risk adjustment tool captures HCC codes across V24 and V28 models and over 72,000 ICD-10 codes. Both solutions deploy within customers' own AWS environments, keeping member, claims and clinical data inside the health plan's governance perimeter. The company says this eliminates the need for new business associate agreements whilst maintaining audit-ready compliance with CMS regulations. Health plans can procure the solutions through AWS Marketplace's consolidated billing system.

Health Technology Net
Aug 19th, 2026
Penguin Ai launches Utilization Management and HCC Risk Adjustment solutions in AWS Marketplace.

Penguin Ai launches Utilization Management and HCC Risk Adjustment solutions in AWS Marketplace. Autonomous, explainable AI executes two of the most administratively intensive payer workflows - inside the health plan's own AWS environment. PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Penguin Ai, a healthcare-native artificial intelligence company, today announced that its Utilization Management and HCC Risk Adjustment solutions are now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Utilization management and risk adjustment depend on manual review of complex clinical records against payer medical policies and CMS coding rules - work that contributes to delays in care, inconsistent decisions, and mounting administrative cost. Penguin Ai's AI Workers review documentation for completeness and medical necessity, apply each plan's own policies through a governed Context Layer, and return audit-ready recommendations with Glassbox reasoning - a human-readable rationale for every decision, with configurable human review on every workflow. For utilization management, the solution compresses prior authorization turnaround from days to under 10 minutes, with up to 92 percent of cases resolved without human intervention. For risk adjustment, plans capture accurate HCC codes across the HCC V24 and V28 models and 72,000+ ICD-10 codes, with compliance safeguards built in. Discover more Medical Facilities & Services Pharmaceutical Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Customers can now access Penguin Ai's Utilization Management and HCC Risk Adjustment solutions directly within AWS Marketplace. Because the solutions deploy inside the customer's own AWS account and governance perimeter, member, claims, and clinical data remain in the plan's environment, with no new business associate agreement required. Health plans can procure through AWS Marketplace with consolidated AWS billing and standardized terms, then move from contract to production in weeks rather than quarters. Built-in governance, versioned medical policy, and traceable decisions mean every recommendation can withstand audit and regulatory scrutiny, including CMS-0057-F interoperability and prior authorization requirements. "Health plans have accepted 'normal processing time' as if it were inevitable. It is not - it is a choice. By putting utilization management and risk adjustment intelligence directly inside the plan's own AWS environment, we eliminate that burden at the source. Members get decisions in minutes instead of days, plans get accuracy and auditability they can defend, and no one has to move their data to get there." - Fawad Butt, CEO, Penguin Ai Penguin Ai's Utilization Management and HCC Risk Adjustment solutions are now generally available in AWS Marketplace. For more information, visit penguinai.co or find Penguin Ai in AWS Marketplace. ABOUT PENGUIN AI Penguin Ai is a healthcare-native artificial intelligence platform that automates complex administrative and clinical workflows for payers, providers, and risk-bearing organizations. Purpose-built with domain-specific reasoning, agentic automation, and transparent auditability, Penguin Ai accelerates prior authorization, HCC coding and risk adjustment, claims adjudication, payment integrity, appeals, and other mission-critical processes. Penguin Ai integrates with leading cloud ecosystems, including AWS, and is deployed across health plans, provider organizations, and revenue cycle operations to reduce administrative burden and improve financial performance. Discover more Drugs & Medications Neuroscience Engineering & Technology

PR Newswire
Apr 7th, 2026
Penguin Ai launches prior authorisation and medical coding apps on Snowflake Marketplace

Penguin Ai has launched Prior Authorization and Medical Coding solutions as Snowflake Native Apps on Snowflake Marketplace. The healthcare AI company's solutions automate administrative workflows by applying AI directly to clinical documentation, claims data and medical policies within Snowflake. The solutions use AI-based agents to review documentation for completeness and medical necessity, generating audit-ready recommendations that improve turnaround times and accuracy. Built to run natively on Snowflake, the apps eliminate data movement and integration complexity. Prior authorisation and medical coding traditionally require manual review of complex clinical records, contributing to delays and administrative burden. Penguin Ai's solutions enable health plans and providers to automate documentation review, policy alignment and coding quality checks directly within their Snowflake accounts, helping reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.

PR Newswire
Apr 1st, 2026
Penguin Ai launches Gwen, a build-your-own AI platform for healthcare operations

Penguin Ai has launched Gwen, a build-your-own AI platform enabling healthcare organisations to design and deploy digital workers for administrative workflows in under 25 minutes. The platform includes over 100 pre-built clinical digital workers covering tasks like HCC retrospective coding, prior authorisation intake and eligibility verification. Gwen features a Studio tool that converts plain-language prompts into functional applications without requiring heavy IT involvement. The platform integrates with existing EHRs, payer platforms and data warehouses, and includes governance features with audit trails for every AI decision. Founded by the former Chief Data Officer of Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, Penguin Ai aims to reduce the $1 trillion annual cost of healthcare administration inefficiencies. Gwen is available today with a free tier requiring no sales engagement.

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