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Kythera

346 Main Street, Suite 200, Franklin, TN, 37064, United States

Overview

Kythera Labs develops Wayfinder, a data-transforming technology platform that provides access to real-world healthcare data spanning over eight years, covering more than 320 million lives and 29.3 billion encounters. Wayfinder is built on Databricks and is described as enterprise‑grade scalable, using a dynamically improving common data model to correct, enhance, and add dimensions to healthcare data to facilitate integration. The platform targets Life Sciences market access and commercial segments by delivering high-fidelity analytics and RWD to accelerate therapy innovation and improve patient outcomes. Kythera reports strong recent growth, forecasting a 41% CAGR for the year and citing a 245% year-over-year increase in platform utilization. The company has appointed a new Chief Science Officer to lead Life Sciences and BioPharma initiatives and a Chief Commercial Officer to accelerate business growth. Kythera also plans to expand partnerships with industry players such as Datavant and Databricks to broaden adoption and offerings.

Total raised
$20M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Dec 2023

Industries

  • Analytics
  • Big Data
  • Data Visualization
  • Electronic Health Record (EHR)
  • Health Care
  • Hospital
  • Machine Learning
  • Pharmaceutical
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Dec 2023

    $20M

Team

  • Jeff McDonald

    CEO and Co-founder

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  • Matt Ryan

    Director Engineering and Co-founder

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  • Ryan Leurck

    Co-Founder and Director of Product

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  • Russ Sacks

    Co-Founder and Director of Data Science and Operations Research

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