A Columbus company digitizing required quality assurance checks, which hospitals mostly have been tracking on paper, has raised a $1.5 million seed round led by Rev1 Ventures.
Enzee Health got its start with radiology and radiation oncology departments that must track tests of their equipment and shielding, and is using proceeds of the round to expand the software's use for any hospital department, according to a release. It's hiring in software development, sales and marketing. The company currently has 12 employees today.
"Enzee is building what we believe is the start of an industry-changing approach to hospital compliance and QA,” Mark Shary, managing partner of Tamarind Hill, a Dublin firm that also participated in the round, said in the statement.
CEO Bryon Murray founded the company a decade ago as ZapIT Holdings Inc. – it rebranded this summer. He's also a clinical assistant professor at Ohio State University and owns a consulting firm in his field of medical physics, the calculations needed for radiation, scanners and the like.
Also participating in the funding round were Harbor Street Ventures, M7 NEO, Redgrave Investments, Service Provider Capital and unidentified others. Enzee indicated it was raising the round in a February regulatory filing.
The company's software, still named ZapIT, automates quality control testing and tracks the data required by law. Ending paper tracking frees clinical staff to spend more time on direct patient care. It also can connect with existing compliance and tracking apps to build a more holistic view of the institution's quality control.
“By bringing together all of their data, from all of their systems, hospitals can better understand their quality assurance compliance management processes to ensure standards are being met and improving the quality of their care," Murray said in the release.
Enzee has developed "great understanding" of healthcare industry needs, Ryan Helon, Rev1 executive vice president for investment funds, said in the release.
“We seek out companies that are built to scale and innovate – Enzee Health has the team and vision to do both,” Helon said.
Enzee also provided a team of coders to the winner of the first Columbus CodeLaunch hackathon and pitch competition in August.
Five tech companies provided free software development to the competitors, and Enzee was the only one that's not a contract software development firm. It built a new feature for operating edtech Mastery Portfolio LLC, which won both the judges' and audience picks.
