MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Trase has raised a $107M seed round led by ARCH Venture Partners with participation from Red Cell Partners and others.
Led by CEO Grant Verstandig and President Baskar Sridharan, Trase is a full-stack AI solution providing an agentic operating system and agents for high-stakes environments. With a suite of hundreds of agents ready to deploy across multiple verticals in weeks, rather than months, Trase ensures compliance and governance across every workflow to drive real-world performance and unlock value creation for enterprise organizations.
“Regulated industries are full of brilliant people who can exponentially serve their country and their customers through the power of AI. Trase delivers that boost to augment capabilities,” said Robert Nelsen, co-founder and Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. “Grant has built the right team, the right technology, and has proven it works in industries that are the most demanding for performance.”
Since its launch last fall, Trase has been working with Duke University Health System to deploy specialized agents within its Division of Cardiology. Proven use cases include automating the more than 5,000 faxes the clinic receives each month, which were previously hand-sorted by trained medical assistants or nurses. While peer-reviewed research on the deployment of Trase agents at Duke is upcoming, initial observations from live agents reveal that AI routing:
- Completes fax triage 7.1x faster than manual processing
- Saves staffers 1,395 hours per month
- Unlocks $285,450 in annual staff capacity, with those hours reinvested in patient care, not headcount reduction
“We used to show up on Monday mornings to hundreds of faxes waiting to be routed. When we first turned on the Trase fax routing agent, it processed the lion’s share of them by the end of the day. It liberated our team to focus on the work they actually trained for and enjoy doing,” said Manesh Patel, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Duke Health. “This work with Trase has shown us that the promise of AI in a clinical setting is real.”
Trase’s fax routing agent is part of a broader ecosystem of agents deployed or ready for deployment at Duke, all aimed at tackling time-consuming administrative workflows as well as other tasks like chronic condition management. All Trase agents are built to run reliably inside high-stakes environments, ensuring data sovereignty, reinforcement learning from human feedback, auditability, and a judgment layer that determines which decisions are best left to a human.
Trase will use the funds to expand its go-to-market team and continue developing Trase Origin, the company’s operating system. The team has grown to 55 members across the U.S., with hubs in Seattle and the Washington, D.C., metro area.
“We’re honored to welcome Bob Nelsen and ARCH to the team,” said Verstandig, CEO and Co-Founder of Trase. “In the age of AI, powered by the sovereignty, predictability, and trustworthiness that Trase’s OS delivers, agents are handling the onerous, immutable tasks that bog down highly trained individuals. Shifting that valuable mental capacity to higher-acuity work will help make the most important systems in the United States cheaper, faster, and better for every American.”
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About Trase
Trase is the agentic operating system for high-stakes environments where security, governance, sovereignty, and predictability are non-negotiable. HIPAA and SOC2 compliant, the platform enables organizations to deploy trustworthy, predictable AI agents across any model or environment—whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at the edge—with unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and fully immutable audit trails. Visit us at trase.ai and follow us on LinkedIn.
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