Tennr: A Cure for Healthcare Paperwork

U.S. healthcare is held captive by mountains of paperwork and red tape. To see a cardiologist, your doctor's office needs to send your medical history - usually by fax - for the cardiologist’s office to manually review, before you can even schedule a visit. Talk about heartburn.

This burdens the American healthcare system with a constant risk of system failure. Staffing issues. Overwhelmed clinicians. Limited software options. Rust-collecting hardware.

Admin overload is pushing providers out of healthcare completely. And it’s a key reason why patients are left without access to necessary, specialty or urgent care for extended periods of time.

Tennr automates repetitive, manual workflows using proprietary AI models, tackling healthcare’s administrative crisis head-on. Starting with fax and paperwork-heavy intake as the wedge, Tennr helps healthcare customers reduce operational costs while increasing revenue and accelerating the pace at which patients can receive care.

IVP is leading Tennr’s $101M Series C, thanks to Tennr’s rare combination of exceptional founder DNA, enterprise-grade tech and a deep, user-informed understanding of provider pain points.

Improving healthcare starts in the back office

Tennr extracts, classifies, and validates referral documentation with over 99.8% accuracy. When a primary care provider refers a patient to a specialist, Tennr extracts the patient information from the fax, verifies insurance eligibility and routes it to the appropriate scheduler—all in minutes instead of over weeks and months. The result: efficiency, ROI and reliability for customers from speciality clinics to hospital systems.

In talking with customers, one clinic executive shared, “On fax wrangling, Tennr is doing what five people used to do. We’re now able to reallocate that budget to hiring folks with more advanced backgrounds to focus on more complex work.”

Practices also credit Tennr with growing their revenue, not simply reducing costs. More efficient intake processes convert more referrals and reduce first-pass denials, ultimately yielding more patients.

And Tennr is poised to scale. Today, the company released Tennr Network, creating a unified system for referrals. The platform connects specialists, referrers and patients in real time, eliminating black holes in follow-up and slashing time-to-care.

A cracked team with the fax on their side

When we first heard about the company and its rapid traction, we knew we had to get close to its founders.

While young, its formidable founding team is learning fast, pushing hard and guiding Tennr’s team to out-ship expectations every month. CEO Trey Holterman is gritty, hungry and relentless. He understands the power of distribution in healthcare and is obsessed with building a world-class go-to-market team. He is well balanced by CPO Diego Baugh, a thoughtful product leader and CTO Tyler Johnson, a rare engineer with exceptional people management skills.

As we got to know the team better through ecosystem dinners, strategy sessions and comedic banter, it became abundantly clear to us that Tennr is not only reducing the administrative load in healthcare, but also laying the groundwork for a much larger vision to reimagine how care can be delivered.

Current customers have been so impressed with Tennr that they’re constantly asking Trey, Diego and Tyler what else the product can automate.

As one customer put it: “Any operation in the healthcare space that interacts with patients could benefit from having Tennr in their workflow.”

We couldn’t agree more. Administrative overload shouldn’t stand between patients and care, and Tennr is proving it doesn’t have to.