Amino is a healthcare navigation platform that helps companies and their employees move through the US healthcare system and find high-value care. The platform lets members search for providers, compare cost and quality data, book appointments, and access employer-sponsored benefits, with provider matching across conditions, procedures, and specialties. Founded in 2014 in San Francisco by David Vivero, Maudie Shah, Sumul Shah, and Roger Billerey-Mosier, the company operated as Amino, Inc. and marketed itself under the Amino Health name.
Amino's model steers members toward its SmartMatch providers — a data-driven recommendation that pairs higher-quality care with lower negotiated prices, framed to employers as measurable ROI on insurance spend. The company raised across multiple rounds from investors including Accel, Sequoia, and Charles River Ventures, and signed contracts with the State of New Jersey and Fidelity Investments as both customer and channel partner. In June 2025, Capital Rx acquired Amino Health and folded it in as its patient-facing care navigation product, Judi Care; the amino.com domain now redirects to judi.care.
I came on as an investor in November 2016 and stayed close to the company as a board member, investor, and fractional CFO. We watched the team turn provider data into real savings — proof that you can instrument healthcare the way you'd instrument any system and read the signal.