Hospitals lost their grip on supply chains in 2020, and the system never fully got its footing back. Gloved hands were tied. Masks ran dry. Entire ORs froze because one SKU vanished in a bureaucratic fog. The pandemic didn’t break the healthcare supply chain, it exposed it as already broken. That’s where Clarium walked in. Not with a cape, but with code, and a chip on their shoulder.
Founded by Steve Liou, whose resume reads like Wall Street’s greatest hits, Millennium, Citadel, Point72, J.P. Morgan, Clarium didn’t come from the traditional healthcare vendor mold. It came from watching supply chains crumble while finance-level infrastructure laughed from the sidelines. Steve didn’t just pivot, he detonated convention. Clarium’s mission? Build Astra OS, a platform smart enough to predict chaos and fast enough to outmaneuver it.
And it’s working. Ask Yale New Haven Health, Geisinger, or Boston Children's Hospital. Or the newly onboarded Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and St. Luke's Hospital. They’ve seen what happens when you swap spreadsheets and vendor voicemails for real-time visibility, AI precision, and a platform that sees disruption coming before your Chief of Surgery does. Hospitals running Clarium’s Astra OS are clocking over $10M in average savings, 50% faster disruption resolution, and a 3.7x jump in clinically validated substitutes.
Now, Clarium just banked $27M in Series A, led by Northzone and backed by the believers, General Catalyst, AlleyCorp, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Texas Medical Center, and 1984 Ventures. That’s $43M total. The investors aren’t betting on hypotheticals. They’re backing a platform that already moves the needle across ERP, EHR, WMS, POU, RCM, acronyms that used to mean “good luck integrating anything.”
It’s not just about tech, either. This is war room meets operating room. With apps like Disruption Monitor, Substitute Manager, and Card Optimizer, Clarium is slicing through the fat and automating the busywork that drains hospital margins and staff morale. OculusAI, the generative assistant that speaks fluent supply chain chaos, is changing how healthcare teams ask questions, and how fast they get answers.
Clarium’s future isn’t built on buzzwords. It’s built on outcomes. That’s why they’re now working alongside HIRC to co-author the new standards for resiliency in healthcare. Call it infrastructure with a pulse.
Shout out to Clarium team, Burton Bracken, Marek S., Marcelo Fracchia, Shivani Stadvec, and strategic minds like Amanda Chawla and Theodore Tanner Jr. who see the play long before it’s drawn up.
Hospitals don’t need another dashboard. They need a damn co-pilot. Clarium didn’t just show up with software, they brought strategy, speed, and the swagger to shake a $25B problem out of the past.
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