Our Journey

The work started before Omaiven.

Jerold McDonald worked inside healthcare administration, leadership and operations, using technology and early automation. Ani Bagepalli built across artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and emerging technologies.

Omaiven began with the everyday work of healthcare.

Jerold McDonald and Ani Bagepalli founded Omaiven around a shared question: what if we applied AI and automation to the work that kept healthcare teams busy?

A Greater Austin Business Awards finalist.

Omaiven was named a finalist in the 2019 Greater Austin Business Awards. The company’s work became part of a wider conversation about business and innovation in Austin.

A digital assistant for the barriers around care.

Forbes covered Omaiven’s AI-powered digital assistant and its aim to reduce missed appointments. The focus was on the practical work of helping people reach care.

Omaiven at Techstars Impact Demo Day.

Omaiven presented its AI-powered assistant at Techstars Impact Demo Day in Austin, bringing patient access and missed appointments into a community of mission-driven companies.

Working within the healthcare technology ecosystem.

Allscripts selected Omaiven for its ADP Empower program. Connecting with existing EHR technology was part of how we approached healthcare operations.

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Capacity when healthcare needed it quickly.

Within weeks during the early COVID response, Omaiven helped a community clinic support approximately 12,000 vaccinations and save more than 2,000 staff hours. Mia, the AI assistant, supported scheduling, questions about COVID-19 testing and transportation needs.

Support for culturally competent care.

Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures and Village Capital selected Omaiven in their accelerator. Omaiven received a $100,000 grant to support its work.

After the early COVID response, Mia grew into a Digital Workforce.

As Omaiven built, deployed and learned after the early COVID response, capabilities expanded beyond Mia into broader workflows, a digital workforce and a larger AI platform for healthcare operations.

Omaiven got backing from Google.

The Google for Startups Black Founders Fund supported Omaiven with funding, cloud credits and mentorship.

Closing the gap in health inequality.

Omaiven shared an Economist Impact case study on Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, connecting our work with the broader effort to improve health equity.

Humanity in Health Care.

Trinity University explored the thinking behind Omaiven: technology as support, empathy in care and time returned to people.