Gobi Partners invests in Malaysia-based AI healthcare firm Valiance Health

Gobi Partners, through its SuperSeed II Fund, has led an undisclosed pre-seed investment in Valiance Health Inc., a Malaysia-based artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare company building the country’s first large-scale standardized healthcare data platform. The round included participation from Jati Growth and Artem Ventures, Gobi said in a statement on Wednesday. The investment marks Gobi’s first healthcare AI investment in Southeast Asia and expands its thesis on data-led, impact-driven innovation. The funds raised will support team expansion, strengthen AI-driven standardization pipelines, deepen system integrations, and scale collaborations with insurers and administrators. “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,” said Jamaludin Bujang, managing partner at Gobi Partners. Rather than building another hospital-facing application, Valiance focuses on the healthcare data infrastructure layer. Its platform aggregates clinical, operational, and financial data from hospital systems, then applies AI-driven pipelines to clean, map, and standardize it into an internationally recognized model. The result is a unified data repository supporting 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 is the first application layer, the company’s core value lies in its underlying data infrastructure, which supports a broader range of solutions for hospitals, insurers, and policymakers. “Value-based healthcare has been discussed in Malaysia for years, but it cannot exist without trustworthy, standardized data, “Hospitals are not short of data. They are overwhelmed by fragmented systems, inconsistent coding, and manual processes that prevent meaningful analysis at scale,” said Dr Lutfi Fadil, Chief Executive Officer of Valiance Health. According to him, 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 Gobi Partners’ support, we aim to help Malaysia move from isolated reporting towards evidence-led, transparent, and value-driven healthcare,” he added. 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, he identified data fragmentation as the primary barrier to scale. It is noted that hospitals struggled to measure outcomes, insurers lacked reliable cost visibility, and policymakers operated without system-wide insight. Without a unified data standard, value-based care could not scale. At the same time, the firm’s 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 costs. The founders later connected and reached a shared conclusion: Malaysia’s healthcare system cannot advance towards transparency or efficiency without a standardized data model. This conviction led to the creation of Valiance Health. According to the statement, demand for this infrastructure continues to grow. Rising medical inflation and inconsistent data formats have slowed reimbursements and increased administrative burdens. Insurers face challenges in claims adjudication, providers encounter payment delays, 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. Since its founding, Valiance claims to have onboarded several private hospitals and a major third-party administrator, with additional providers in the pipeline. “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 $22,000 in annual savings, while also identifying opportunities to optimize device procurement without compromising clinical outcomes,” said Elina Nadia Omar, group Chief Executive Officer of Avisena Healthcare. By establishing a standardized healthcare data foundation, Valiance said it aims to accelerate Malaysia’s transition to transparent, efficient, and value-driven care across the healthcare ecosystem. Gobi Partners invests into Malaysian semiconductor IC design company SkyeChip