Blaze raises $5M pre-seed to keep health apps HIPAA-compliant

What's the deal? Blaze TechnologyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a software startup helping health apps stay HIPAA-compliant, has raised $5 million in a pre-seed round, co-chief executive officer Nanxi LiuDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → told Axios Pro exclusively.

What does it do? Blaze builds software that helps health applications meet HIPAA compliance requirements, a legal necessity for products handling US patient data.

By the numbers: The $5 million round is sizeable for a pre-seed deal, landing in roughly the top third of comparable rounds by amount raised.

The signal: Blaze joins a growing list of well-funded health AI infrastructure startups, as investors bet on the tooling that lets healthcare software operate within regulatory bounds.

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