KUALA LUMPUR, 11 February 2026 – Gobi Partners, through its SuperSeed II Fund, led a pre-seed investment in Valiance Health Inc. ("Valiance"), a Malaysia-based artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare company building the country's first large-scale standardised healthcare data platform. The platform improves cost transparency, operational efficiency and patient outcomes. The round included participation from Jati Growth and Artem Ventures. The investment marks Gobi's first healthcare AI investment in Southeast Asia and expands its thesis on data-led, impact-driven innovation.
Valiance emerged from insights uncovered during Co-founder Dr Lutfi Fadil's doctoral research at Harvard University in 2019. While studying the adoption of value-based healthcare (VBHC), he identified data fragmentation as the primary barrier to scale. Hospitals struggled to measure outcomes, insurers lacked reliable cost visibility, and policymakers operated without comprehensive system-wide insight. Without a unified data standard, value-based care could not scale.
At the same time, Co-founder Dr Ridhwan Hassan, then Data Analytics Manager at KPJ Healthcare Berhad, encountered the operational consequences of this fragmentation. High staff turnover, inconsistent coding practices and legacy systems made it difficult to benchmark billing and clinical data. This created friction across the healthcare chain — payors lacked reliable evidence to adjudicate claims, providers faced delayed reimbursements and patients had limited visibility into what they were paying for. The inefficiencies were systemic, not isolated.
The two founders later connected and recognised a shared conclusion: Malaysia's healthcare system cannot advance toward transparency or efficiency without a standardised data model. This conviction led to the creation of Valiance Health.
Rather than building another hospital-facing application, Valiance focuses on the healthcare data infrastructure layer. Its platform aggregates raw clinical, operational and financial data from hospital systems, then applies AI-driven pipelines to clean, map and standardise the data into an internationally recognised model. The result is a unified data repository that supports analytics, regulatory reporting, automation, clinical benchmarking and operational insights.
One application built on this foundation is Healthproximate, Valiance's analytics interface. It enables hospitals to analyse cost structures, identify trends and uncover operational bottlenecks. While Healthproximate represents the first application layer, the company's core value lies in the underlying data infrastructure, which supports a broader range of downstream solutions for hospitals, insurers and policymakers.
Demand for this infrastructure continues to grow. Rising medical inflation and inconsistent data formats have slowed reimbursement processes and increased administrative burden. Insurers face challenges in claims adjudication, providers encounter delays in payments, and regulators rely on manual reporting. Valiance's platform introduces a common data standard that reduces friction, enables transparent benchmarking and supports evidence-based decision-making.
"Malaysia's healthcare system is at an inflection point. Valiance is addressing the core data problem that has long slowed the shift to value-based care. The team is building the foundational infrastructure the healthcare ecosystem needs, not just analytics dashboards."
— Jamaludin Bujang, Managing Partner at Gobi Partners
"Value-based healthcare has been discussed in Malaysia for years, but it cannot exist without trustworthy, standardised data. Hospitals are not short of data. They are overwhelmed by fragmented systems, inconsistent coding and manual processes that prevent meaningful analysis at scale.
Valiance is building the missing foundation: a unified data layer that allows costs, outcomes and operations to be understood in a common language across providers and payors. With this foundation in place, hospitals can reduce costs, payors can adjudicate claims faster, and the system gains transparent benchmarking and AI-driven insights that support both clinical and financial decision-making.
With Gobi Partners' support, we aim to help Malaysia move from isolated reporting toward evidence-led, transparent and value-driven healthcare."
— Dr Lutfi Fadil, Chief Executive Officer of Valiance Health
Since its founding, Valiance has onboarded several private hospitals and a major third-party administrator, with additional providers in the onboarding pipeline. The funds raised will support team expansion, strengthen AI-driven standardisation pipelines, deepen system integrations and scale collaborations with insurers and administrators.
"Avisena and Valiance have worked together since the company's early days. Valiance helped us identify cost leakages and inefficiencies that were previously difficult to detect through manual processes. Using Healthproximate, we reduced average appendicectomy costs and achieved approximately RM85,000 in annual savings, while also identifying opportunities to optimise device procurement without compromising clinical outcomes."
— Puan Elina Nadia Omar, Group Chief Executive Officer of Avisena Healthcare
By establishing a standardised healthcare data foundation, Valiance aims to accelerate Malaysia's transition to transparent, efficient and value-driven care across the healthcare ecosystem.
About Valiance Health Inc./Healthproximate
Valiance Health Inc. is a Malaysia-based healthcare technology company building a standardised data infrastructure to support value-based healthcare. The company develops AI-driven pipelines that aggregate, clean and harmonise clinical, operational and financial data across hospital systems into a unified data model. Valiance enables hospitals, insurers and policymakers to improve cost transparency, operational efficiency and evidence-based decision-making across the healthcare ecosystem.
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