Healthcare’s Compliance Crisis Just Met Its Match with $16.7 Million in Funding

A few years before co-founding Brellium, one of the founders, Zach Rosen, went through what too many patients experience in silence: a misdiagnosis that spiraled into two years of ineffective treatments, mounting bills, and endless back-and-forth with providers and insurers. It wasn’t a rare condition or a medical mystery. The root cause? A simple documentation oversight that, if caught early, could have changed everything.

In healthcare, these stakes are too high for critical information to fall through the cracks. This experience revealed a deeper systemic issue in the U.S.: when providers don’t have the tools to ensure clinical accuracy and compliance, patients pay the price. Yet in clinics across the country, overworked teams are forced to choose between keeping up with documentation or keeping up with patients. Most rely on manual spot-checks to audit care, a time-consuming, error-prone process that covers just a fraction of visits. And with payor rules that change frequently and lack clear guidance, it’s no surprise that even the most well-intentioned providers get caught in costly compliance traps.

A recent Medicaid audit in Indiana underscored the issue; every month sampled included improper payments, largely due to documentation errors. The system isn’t failing just patients; it’s failing providers too.

AI With A Clipboard

Founded in 2021 by Henry Kasa, Rosen, Max Katzman and Alex Le Tu, Brellium was built to change that. The company uses AI to automatically audit 100% of patient charts, surfacing the issues that matter before they become problems. For the first time, clinics can scale quality assurance without sacrificing care.

The U.S. healthcare system is burdened with administrative complexities that result in excessive costs. Each year, approximately $23.5 billion is spent on medical records validation, while an additional $496 billion is allocated to billing and insurance-related (BIR) costs. This BIR expenditure is $248 billion more than necessary, highlighting the substantial financial strain caused by administrative inefficiencies.

Brellium significantly reduces administrative overhead and increases accuracy, allowing healthcare providers to allocate more time, resources, and data to improving patient care. The result is a 98% decrease in costs and a substantial increase in accuracy.

Brellium’s AI-powered platform, using natural language processing and clinical rule engines, automatically reviews 100% of patient charts, flagging potential problems such as missing notes, outdated documentation, incorrect session lengths, and clinical risks. This contrasts with the traditional manual spot-checking method, which typically reviews only 5–10% of charts.

Investors Check In

The company’s bold promise to improve the standard of care in the U.S. healthcare system has caught the attention of investors. It just announced a $16.7 million funding round led by First Round Capital, Left Lane Capital, Menlo Ventures, Digital Health Venture Partners, Kearny Jackson, and Necessary Ventures alongside a group of world-class angel investors, including Andrew Adams (CEO of Headway), Steve Gutentag and Demitri Karagas, Cory Levy and Fiat Ventures.

Brellium’s traction and their focus on transforming the U.S. healthcare system have deeply impressed investors. As Hayley Bay Barna said in one of her LinkedIn posts, “They’re already working with dozens of healthcare organizations across mental health, autism care, hospice, and more. And they’ve validated charts across millions of patient visits across all 50 states.”

The company plans to expand its engineering and customer success teams and bring its platform to more behavioral health and specialty care providers across the country.

Brellium streamlines compliance across millions of patient visits, earning the trust of leading healthcare organizations such as Grow Therapy, Rula, Headspace, Hopebridge, Lightfully Behavioral Health, Talkiatry, and others. The company has audited millions of charts, providing organizations with deep insight into payor expectations and documentation standards.