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About VentusThe payer intelligence layer
for specialty care

Ventus AI turns 300+ payers into one clean source of data and denial intelligence for DSOs, MSOs, and specialty groups. Founded in 2023 in San Mateo, California.

Our mission

Ventus is building the payer intelligence layer for specialty care: one system that knows how each payer pays, so revenue cycle teams stop chasing answers and providers get paid what they earned.

Ventus in numbers

300+

Payers normalized into one format

400+

Offices live at DSOs, MSOs, and specialty groups

95%

Insurance verifications completed end-to-end

33%

Lift in AR productivity

1 wk

To bring a new payer live

Payer answers live in EDI feeds, payer portals, phone calls, and faxes.

Today: phone holds, portals, paper

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Eligibility · Active · PPO

Annual maximum
$1,550 remaining
Cleaning frequency
1 visit remaining
Missing-tooth clause
Applies

Sources · EDI 271 · portal · call

Benefits, pre-authorization rules, and claim status sit across all of them, and every payer does it differently. Revenue cycle teams spend their days chasing answers.

Every preventable denial is revenue a practice already earned.

We started Ventus in 2023 to turn all of it into one answer.

Ventus pulls benefits, pre-authorization, and claim status from EDI, payer portals, and AI phone calls, and hands teams a finished, sourced answer: in a dashboard, inside the systems they already use, or through an API. It powers RCM teams and billing companies rather than replacing them.

Working with the teams behind 400+ offices.

The Ventus and Smilist teams together at a Smilist office
The Smilist
“Ventus stands out from the noise in the AI and automation market. The team moves fast and consistently delivers real results.”
Philip TohCo-founder & President, The Smilist
The SmilistTendAbsolute DentalKids CareAnne Arundel DermatologyEmpiRx Health

The team

Built by engineers from Meta, Amazon, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon

MetaAmazonUC BerkeleyCarnegie Mellon University

Founded in 2023 in San Mateo, California, Ventus pairs people who build AI systems with people who know how revenue cycle teams actually work.

The team has put AI into real operations before, from Meta AI to Fortune 500 deployments: legacy systems, real-world exceptions, and the change that comes with them.

Leadership

Peter Qian

Peter Qian

Co-founder & CEO

Peter brings a background in AI, robotics, and enterprise deployment to healthcare. He began his career at Meta AI and later led engineering at Covariant, where he helped Fortune 500 companies bring AI-powered robotics into their operations. That experience shaped his approach to deploying technology: navigating legacy systems, handling real-world exceptions, and guiding organizational change. He co-founded Ventus to apply those lessons to healthcare’s payment challenges, reducing the work of getting providers paid so more resources can go toward delivering care.

Vincent Lu

Vincent Lu

Co-founder & CTO

Vincent brings a deep background in AI research and production systems to healthcare. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute, where his multimodal AI research was published at ACL, NAACL, and ICCV and has been cited more than 1,000 times. He later joined Midjourney as a Research Engineer working on multilingual and multimodal generative AI. He co-founded Ventus to bring that expertise to healthcare, leading the AI-native platform that turns fragmented payer data into reliable answers and actions for providers.

Backed by

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Samsung NEXT, and WndrCo

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Samsung NEXT
WndrCo

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Ventus AI the same company as other businesses named Ventus?

No. Ventus AI is the payer intelligence company for specialty care, based in San Mateo, California. Its only website is www.ventus.ai.

Who backs Ventus?

Ventus is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Samsung NEXT, and WndrCo.

Does Ventus replace my billing team?

No. Ventus does the payer work and hands your team a finished, sourced answer. It powers RCM teams and billing companies rather than replacing them.

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