Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Nanxi Liu (left) and Tina Wojcik (right)
Blaze secures $8.5 million in pre-seed capital, enabling healthcare teams to build HIPAA-compliant custom software powered by AI.
No platform delivers compliant healthcare apps more quickly than Blaze. We are confident that healthcare’s next generation of software will be built on Blaze.”— Bryan FristLOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, August 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Blaze.tech (“Blaze”), the AI app building platform purpose-built for healthcare, today announced an investment from Friale, a newly established healthcare-focused venture firm founded by the family behind HCA, the largest hospital operator in the nation. This marks Friale’s first investment, and the round adds $5 million in additional capital to Blaze’s pre-seed, reaching a total of $8.5 million.
“Our goal is to radically simplify the process of building healthcare software, so that anyone with a concept to enhance care can bring it to life,” said Nanxi Liu, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Blaze.tech. “Each week, we observe someone create a prototype using AI, present it to a client, and then encounter a barrier because the app isn’t linked to the systems healthcare depends on and lacks the compliance required for real patient data. We developed Blaze for that final stretch—production applications that manage actual patient data, update EHRs, and send prescriptions across the country.”
“Blaze can generate multi-portal applications, fully structured relational databases, and end-to-end workflows within minutes. However, in healthcare, speed is only valuable if you can rely on what you deploy,” said Tina Wojcik, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Blaze.tech. “That’s why we pair AI generation with deterministic, auditable workflows, safeguards on every AI action, and separate development, staging, and production environments to protect live patient data. Healthcare teams get the speed of AI combined with the control of enterprise software built in from the start.”
From solo practitioners to Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations use Blaze to create HIPAA-compliant solutions tailored to their specific operations. With Blaze, patient portals, scheduling, custom EMRs, billing, and prescribing workflows are optimized for each organization’s unique needs. Kiaora runs its entire online GLP-1 and hormone-therapy prescribing business on Blaze; The Care Connexion operates its therapist-referral platform on it. Larger provider groups leverage Blaze to automate clinical workflows within their EHRs.
Blaze’s security rigor is independently verified—Blaze is SOC 2 Type II certified and the only AI app builder with HITRUST e1 certification, signed BAAs, full audit trails, native e-prescribing, and EHR integrations.
“Having been immersed in healthcare all my life, I have witnessed how high the standards are for safely introducing new ideas into the U.S. healthcare system,” said Bryan Frist, Co-Founder of Friale. “That standard is precisely why healthcare software is so slow to develop, and why Blaze matters. No platform delivers compliant healthcare apps more quickly than Blaze. We believe that healthcare’s next generation of software will be built on Blaze, and when it happens, America will benefit from faster, better, and more affordable care.”
Beyond capital, Friale brings decades of Frist family leadership in American healthcare. Bryan Frist’s grandfather co-founded HCA Healthcare, and the family remains its largest shareholder. His father, Bill Frist, is a heart surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. Co-founders Frist and Alexander met at Harvard Business School and previously founded a mobility company together.
“U.S. healthcare spends nearly a trillion dollars annually on administration—much of it pure waste that makes care slower and worse. The solution is better software, but healthcare’s compliance requirements have made it nearly impossible to build. Until Blaze,” said Nick Alexander, Co-Founder of Friale. “Nanxi and Tina have created the best product in the category, and the market is proving it. The fastest-growing healthcare startups and the largest provider groups now run core operations on Blaze.”
Blaze will use the new capital to expand its healthcare-specific product capabilities, deepen integrations with healthcare systems and clearinghouses, and grow its team to support ongoing customer demand.
About Blaze.tech
Blaze.tech is the AI-driven platform purpose-built for healthcare. SOC 2 Type II certified and the only AI app builder with HITRUST e1 certification, Blaze lets organizations design, build, and deploy custom, HIPAA-compliant software—patient portals, billing, scheduling, automated workflows inside EHRs—without the time, cost, or compliance risk of traditional development. Learn more at www.blaze.tech or email press@blaze.tech.
About Friale
Friale is a venture firm focused on healthcare and AI, founded by Bryan Frist and Nick Alexander to back early-stage companies building the next generation of healthcare infrastructure, services, and software. Blaze.tech is its first investment. Learn more at www.Friale.com or email hello@friale.com. https://www.linkedin.com/company/friale/
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