For investors

Healthcare tracks what happens to patients. Not what it's like to be one.

Two people who lived that gap built Ember. The companion families use is free. The record it builds is the business.

Ember exists because we lived this.

Jason lost his wife, Tracy. Angeline lost her mother, Lupe. We met in a support group. The system tracked every scan and every lab, and none of what it was actually like to be there at 2 a.m., holding all of it.

The gap

Same illness. Two completely different records.

What the chart holds

  • Scheduled visits
  • Treatment decisions
  • Chart entries and claims
  • Structured, measured moments

What Ember sees

  • 2 a.m. fear and searching
  • The wait for pathology
  • Explaining it to the kids
  • Deciding when enough is enough

Claims and surveys sit downstream of the chart. Ember sits upstream — a blind spot the industry puts north of $100B a year.

What we built

A free companion, and the record it builds.

Free for any family facing cancer, reviewed by neuro-oncologists, there the moment a diagnosis lands.

An Ember chat thread: a family member asks what 'MGMT promoter methylated' means, and Ember explains it in plain language, then offers to help draft questions for the care team.
Ember Companion — a private thread, the night the questions won't stop

"It's like having someone sit with you after the appointment when everything finally hits."

Ember user

Every conversation, de-identified to HIPAA Safe Harbor, becomes Ember Signal — the record pharma, payers, and researchers pay for, at $100K to $1M+ per program. That's why the companion is free, and stays free.

Ember Signal showing aggregate caregiver responses to a pharma researcher's question about the first three months after a glioblastoma diagnosis.
Ember Signal — what pharma, payers, and researchers see
How it compounds

Trust in, signal out, back around.

trust lived signal validated insight drugs · research · lives funds + trust THE EMBER FLYWHEEL credibility amplifies every turn PEOPLE share lived experience COMPANION free · earns trust THE SCIENCE signal → instruments SIGNAL to pharma & research OUTCOMES better care + revenue
Where we are

Six months in glioblastoma alone.

4,028
Conversations
48,977
Messages exchanged
50+
Countries, no paid acquisition
~70%
Returned for more than one conversation

Accepted as an abstract at ASCO (545172) on a patient-facing digital tool for glioblastoma outside scheduled visits.

Where it goes

Prove it in one cancer, then own the layer.

01 · Prove it

Glioblastoma

Highest caregiver burden and after-hours uncertainty. The clearest signal.

02 · Expand

Across oncology

Pancreatic, ovarian, pediatric brain, multiple myeloma. 100,000+ U.S. families a year.

03 · Own the layer

Patient experience

The place lived experience lives, feeding oncology decisions no chart can see.

Who's building it

Built by people who've lived it. Advised by people who lead it.

Jason Binder
Founder & CEO

Pharma commercial and clinical operations at AstraZeneca, Genentech, and Merck. The enterprise buyer for real-world data.

45 months caring for his wife, Tracy.

Angeline Giammona
Co-founder & COO

Operating and product leadership at Bobbie, Carta, and Dialpad. Scaled enterprise revenue from zero in regulated markets.

10 months caring for her mother, Lupe, pregnant and postpartum.

Scott Toth
CFO

Four decades of financial leadership across healthcare and enterprise finance.

Advisors

Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, MBA
Neuro-Oncology & Patient Care
Tufts Medical, UNC Health & University of Cincinnati
Danielle Ralic
Health Tech & Analytics
Ancora.ai, ZS & Deloitte
Matt De Silva
Biotech & Venture Strategy
Builders VC, Pathos AI & Notable Labs
Erica Olenski, BCPA, CPXP
Healthcare & Patient Experience
Innsena, Finn Partners & Pediatric Caregiver
Greg Grevera
Clinical Strategy & Patient Advocacy
Imvax, Servier & Jazz Pharma

Team

Austin Allen, Data Science · Desiree Reinken, Quality of Life Research · Kate Snedeker, Community, Brand & Growth · Kim Woodward, Data & AI Governance

The full bench, with bios, is on the team page. The longer story is at Our story.

Who we build alongside

The organizations families already trust.

Stand Up To Cancer Innovate GBM Big Tree Memorial Fund Anchored For Good Game On Glio StacheStrong Gray for Glioblastoma Dragon Master Initiative Uncle Kory Foundation

If you'd like to talk.

Raising a pre-seed, led and moving.

The deck has the market, the model, the roadmap, and the ask. Tell us a little about you and we'll send it over. Or email directly: jason@emberhealth.ai · angeline@emberhealth.ai.