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Datavant

Datavant is an American health information technology company based in San Francisco, California. It is a subsidiary of Roivant Sciences.

History

On September 20, 2017, Roivant announced the launch of Datavant, "a new company focused on employing artificial intelligence to improve the clinical trial process."[1] Travis May and Sam Roosz are credited as co-founders.[2]

COVID-19

On April 22, 2020, Datavant announced its participation in the COVID-19 Research Database, "a secure repository of HIPAA-compliant, de-identified and limited patient-level data sets made available to public health and policy researchers to extract insights to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic."[3]

On November 9, 2020, Datavant announced it was partnering with the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) to support the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C).[4]

In June 2021, Datavant announced a merger with Ciox Health.[5]

Organization

Datavant is a partner organization in the COVID-19 Research Database[3:1][6] and the National COVID Cohort Collaborative.[7] The company is also a member of the Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV) Consortium.[8]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Travis May Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer[1:1] Campus Venture Network, LiveRamp, Shaper Capital
Sam Roosz Co-Founder[2:1] Crescendo Health, Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Pete McCabe Chief Executive Officer[5:1] Ciox Health
Bob Borek General Manager and President, Provider[9] -
Jim Bridges General Manager and President, Provider -
Arnaub Chatterjee General Manager and President, Life Sciences, Ecosystem & Public Sector -
Jose Garcia Chief Financial Officer -
Ashley Greenberg Chief of Staff -
Vera Mucaj Chief Scientific Officer and Head of De-Identified Product -
Kathryn Stalmack Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel -
Matt Vail Chief Technology Officer -
Shannon West Chief Product Officer -
Susan Yun Chief People Officer -
Daniel Burch Advisory Board PPD Biotech
Emiko Higashi Advisory Board Tohmon Capital Partners
Min Li Advisory Board GlaxoSmithKline, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Lo Advisory Board MIT Sloan School of Management
Atul Pande Advisory Board GlaxoSmithKline
Eric Perakslis Advisory Board Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI)
Frank Rockold Advisory Board Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)
Bryan Spielman Advisory Board Medidata

Investors

Companies invested in Datavant include:[10][11][5:2]

  • Cigna Ventures
  • Flex Capital
  • Founders Fund
  • Johnson & Johnson Innovation
  • Labcorp
  • Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (MGHIF)
  • New Mountain Capital
  • Octave Fund
  • Roivant Sciences
  • Sixth Street Partners
  • SoftBank Vision Fund
  • Transformation Capital

  1. Davis, P., & Roosz, S. (2017, September 20). Roivant Sciences Launches Datavant to Improve Clinical Trials with Artificial Intelligence. Roivant Sciences. https://web.archive.org/web/20210805175607/https://roivant.com/roivant-sciences-launches-datavant-to-improve-clinical-trials-with-artificial-intelligence.html ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Sam Roosz. Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved December 7, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231207011907/https://fas.org/expert/sam-roosz/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. Leading Healthcare Companies Announce COVID-19 Research Database. (2020, April 22). Datavant. http://archive.today/2024.05.28-214057/https://www.datavant.com/press-release/leading-healthcare-companies-announce-covid-19-research-database ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Regenstrief, Indiana CTSI, Datavant Partner on NIH National COVID-19 Data Effort. (2020, November 9). Datavant. http://archive.today/2024.06.02-000049/https://www.datavant.com/press-release/regenstrief-indiana-ctsi-datavant-partner-on-nih-national-covid-19-data-effort ↩︎

  5. Hale, C. (2021, June 9). Datavant, Ciox Health ink $7B deal for wide-ranging access to medical research data. Fierce Pharma. https://web.archive.org/web/20240528192959/https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/datavant-to-absorb-ciox-health-7b-medical-data-deal ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. Home. COVID-19 Research Database. Retrieved May 28, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.05.28-195356/https://covid19researchdatabase.org/ ↩︎

  7. The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Powered by Datavant and Regenstrief Wins 2022 FedHealthIT Innovation Award. (2022, May 24). Datavant. https://web.archive.org/web/20240602000649/https://www.datavant.com/press-release/the-national-covid-cohort-collaborative-n3c-privacy-preserving-record-linkage-powered-by-datavant-and-regenstrief-wins-2022-fedhealthit-innovation-award ↩︎

  8. Current Members. Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV). Retrieved January 19, 2025, from https://www.rrpv.org/current-members/ ↩︎

  9. About. Datavant. Retrieved May 2, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240502181435/https://www.datavant.com/about ↩︎

  10. Venture Round - Datavant. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 28, 2024, from https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/datavant-series-unknown--43f3b9fd ↩︎

  11. Series B - Datavant. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 28, 2024, from https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/datavant-series-b--1bbc2116 ↩︎