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Why we invested: Angle Health raises $134 million to scale ai-native health benefits platform. Angle Health, the first vertically integrated AI platform for healthcare benefits, recently closed a $134 million oversubscribed Series B round led by Portage, with participation from investors including Blumberg Capital, Mighty Capital, PruVen Capital, and Y Combinator among others. The round, a mix of debt and equity, brings total funding to nearly $200 million as the company scales operations to meet growing demand for alternative health plan products. The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing a period of major transformation. ACA premiums are projected to rise more than 15% - the largest increase since 2018 - while regulators closely review billing practices at UnitedHealth, and Centene navigates challenges in its Medicaid and ACA lines. These dynamics highlight both the scale and urgency of innovation in the $4 trillion U.S. health insurance market. Angle is at the forefront of this transformation, delivering AI-driven solutions that streamline costs, improve patient outcomes, and create real value across the system. Angle Health's mission is to transform employer-sponsored healthcare through a full-stack, AI-native benefits platform that simplifies administration, integrates seamlessly with existing systems, and empowers members with personalized, accessible care. Since Blumberg Capital led Angle's Seed round in 2020, we've watched co-founders Ty Wang and Anirban Gangopadhyay, and the entire team consistently outperform: offering cost-effective plans while delivering superior coverage across 45 states, with plans to expand to all 50 states in the coming years. This growth is especially notable as many large insurers withdraw from the small group market due to underwriting and administrative challenges. Since its early days, Ty and Anirban, who leveraged their experience at Palantir, the NSA and the DoD, have applied a data-first, AI-driven approach to nearly every business process. Angle's claims processing, for example, operates hundreds of times more efficiently than traditional carriers, enabling faster, more accurate service and targeted care for at-risk members. Our continued investment, now through our Venture Growth fund, which backs breakout Series A to pre-IPO stage companies transforming industries through data-driven innovation, reflects our conviction in Angle's ability to redefine health insurance. The company is not only scaling rapidly but is also delivering transparency, efficiency, and member-centric care to an industry in critical need of disruption. Congrats to Ty, Anirban, Andy Leeka and the entire Angle team on this milestone and the exciting chapter ahead!

Exclusive: Angle Health raises $134 million Series B to grow its AI-driven healthcare benefits offerings. In 2026, employer healthcare costs are expected to see their largest increase in 15 years. Ty Wang, Angle Health CEO and cofounder, said that while there's been "an explosion of new ways of receiving medical services" like telehealth, digital pharmacies, and chronic disease management programs - these benefits mostly accrue to employees of large tech companies or major white-collar firms. "These services are still largely inaccessible to the vast majority of Americans," he said. In 2019, Wang cofounded Angle Health, an AI-driven healthcare benefits startup, with fellow Palantir alum Anirban Gangopadhyay. Now, Angle has raised a $134 million Series B, consisting of both equity and debt, and led by Portage, Fortune has exclusively learned. The company says it serves more than 2,600 small business employers in 44 states. "We've been able to very effectively use AI in areas where a human should not be manually administering things that they otherwise would be," said Gangopadhyay. "We quote thousands of groups a week. In any other company, you're getting quoted these PDFs that are 12, 15, 20 pages long. And they're parsing through these PDFs manually...We've fully automated and optimized that process where our underwriters and our sales people are only doing the pieces that we need a human to be doing." Small businesses face particular difficulties when providing healthcare, often operating with poor broker support, limited transparency, and no bargaining power. "The SMB market is a large part of the population that is often forgotten," said Wang. "There's absolutely no transparency. There's very little predictability, and the incumbents are able to gatekeep the data that's available to them." Wang and Gangopadhyay told Fortune that Angle is devoted to transparency, cost stability, and detailed reporting in an effort to improve healthcare experiences and cost surprises. There's an awareness that this is a systemic problem, albeit one that can be vastly improved (and over time, slowly rebuilt) by technology. "We don't believe that an insurance company is going to really solve healthcare," said Gangopadhyay. "We think that the future of healthcare is a completely redesigned ecosystem that is using AI-first, tech-first products and workflows to really unlock the best care for members."

Angle Health has raised a $134 million Series B, led by Portage, Fortune has exclusively learned.