Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Nanxi Liu (left) and Tina Wojcik (right)
With $8.5 million in pre-seed funding, Blaze empowers healthcare teams to build HIPAA-compliant custom software using AI.
No other platform delivers compliant healthcare applications as quickly as Blaze. We believe the future of healthcare software will be built on Blaze.”— Bryan FristLOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, August 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Blaze.tech (“Blaze”), the AI-powered app building platform designed specifically for healthcare, today revealed an investment from Friale, a newly established healthcare-focused venture firm created by the family behind HCA, the country’s largest hospital operator. This marks Friale’s inaugural investment, and the financing adds $5 million in fresh capital to Blaze’s pre-seed round, raising the total to $8.5 million.
“Our goal is to make healthcare software creation dramatically easier, so anyone with a vision for improving healthcare can gain the ability to bring it to life,” stated Nanxi Liu, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Blaze.tech. “Every week, we observe someone developing a prototype with AI, presenting it to a client, and then encountering a barrier because the application isn’t linked to the systems healthcare relies on and lacks the compliance necessary for real patient data. We created Blaze for that final step—production-level apps that manage actual patient data, update EHRs, and transmit prescriptions nationwide.”
“Blaze can produce multi-portal applications, fully structured relational databases, and complete end-to-end workflows within minutes. However, in healthcare, speed is only valuable if you can have confidence in what you release,” said Tina Wojcik, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Blaze.tech. “That’s why we integrate AI generation with deterministic, auditable workflows, safeguards on every AI action, and distinct development, staging, and production environments to shield live patient data. Healthcare teams achieve the speed of AI with the oversight of enterprise software built in from the start.”
Healthcare organizations, from solo practitioners to Fortune 500 companies, utilize Blaze to create HIPAA-compliant solutions customized to their workflows. Through Blaze, patient portals, scheduling, custom EMRs, billing, and prescribing processes are fine-tuned for each organization’s specific operations. Kiaora relies on Blaze to run its entire online GLP-1 and hormone-therapy prescribing business; The Care Connexion manages its therapist-referral platform on it. Larger provider groups employ Blaze to automate clinical processes within their EHRs.
Blaze’s security standards are independently validated—it holds SOC 2 Type II certification and is the sole AI app builder with HITRUST e1 certification, signed BAAs, comprehensive audit trails, native e-prescribing capabilities, and EHR integrations.
“Having been immersed in healthcare my whole life, I’ve witnessed how steep the requirements are for safely introducing new concepts into the U.S. healthcare system,” commented Bryan Frist, Co-Founder of Friale. “That high standard is precisely why healthcare software takes so long to develop, and why Blaze is essential. There isn’t another platform that launches compliant healthcare applications as swiftly as Blaze. We are confident that healthcare’s next wave of software will be built on Blaze, and when that occurs, America will see faster, higher-quality, and more affordable care.”
Alongside capital, Friale contributes decades of Frist family leadership in American healthcare. Bryan Frist’s grandfather was a co-founder of HCA Healthcare, and the family remains its largest shareholder. His father, Bill Frist, is a heart surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. Co-founders Frist and Alexander met at Harvard Business School and previously co-founded a mobility company.
“The U.S. healthcare system spends nearly a trillion dollars annually on administration—much of it pure inefficiency that makes care slower and worse. The solution is improved software, but healthcare’s compliance hurdles have made it almost impossible to create. Until Blaze,” said Nick Alexander, Co-Founder of Friale. “Nanxi and Tina have developed the top product in this category, and the market is reflecting that. The fastest-growing healthcare startups and the largest provider groups now operate core functions on Blaze.”
Blaze intends to use the fresh funding to broaden its healthcare-specific product features, deepen connections with healthcare systems and clearinghouses, and expand its workforce to keep up with ongoing customer demand.
About Blaze.tech
Blaze.tech is the AI-powered platform built exclusively for healthcare. SOC 2 Type II certified and the only AI app builder with HITRUST e1 certification, Blaze enables organizations to design, build, and deploy custom, HIPAA-compliant software—including patient portals, billing, scheduling, and automated workflows inside EHRs—without the time, cost, or compliance risks of traditional development. Learn more at www.blaze.tech or email press@blaze.tech.
About Friale
Friale is a venture capital firm centered on healthcare and AI, founded by Bryan Frist and Nick Alexander to support early-stage companies building the next generation of healthcare infrastructure, services, and software. Blaze.tech is its first investment. Learn more at www.Friale.com or email hello@friale.com. https://www.linkedin.com/company/friale/
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