Invene Acquires Guidea to Expand FullStack Healthcare AI Capabilities

At Invene, we believe the future of healthcare won’t be built by engineering alone. It takes upstream clarity, clinical understanding, and design that drives adoption in complex environments — not just functional code. That’s why we’ve acquired Guidea, one of the most experienced product strategy and UX teams in healthcare. Over the past two decades, Guidea has helped launch FDA-cleared devices, enterprise-grade platforms, and patient-facing tools used by more than 600 million people worldwide.
This acquisition marks a shift in what Invene can offer. We’re evolving from a high-performing engineering partner into a full-stack product and R&D firm built specifically for regulated, data-intensive healthcare systems.
From Engineering Execution to Blueprint-to-Build
Our clients — across medtech, biopharma, payers, diagnostics, and digital health — increasingly ask for more than implementation. They need support earlier, when the stakes are still high but the product is still shapeless.
With this acquisition, we can now support the full arc of products:
- Early-stage product framing and R&D strategy
- Clinical-grade UX design for patients and providers
- Responsible AI integration
- Software engineering optimized for regulatory, privacy, and scale
By embedding product strategy and systems thinking directly into our technical delivery model, we eliminate handoffs and reduce downstream rework while improving speed, usability, and clinical fit.
Why This Matters for AI in Healthcare
The challenge in healthcare isn’t building AI models. It’s integrating them responsibly into workflows, systems, and decisions people actually trust.
Together, Invene and Guidea offer:
- Insight-driven product framing (before a single model is trained)
- Architecture built for explainability, compliance, and clinical validation
- Interfaces designed to earn trust in noisy, high-stakes settings
- A shared team that spans product, design, engineering, and data science — not a bolted-on coalition
We’re not just building prototypes that demo well. We’re building solutions that deploy well.
What This Enables
With our combined team, clients can now move faster across the full product lifecycle:
- Fundable MVPs that resonate with clinical and commercial audiences
- Scalable architectures designed for real-world complexity
- Compliant implementations that don’t compromise user experience
- Adoptable products that work in the wild, not just in pitch decks
We’re helping teams move from bold ideas to real-world impact — faster, smarter, and more integrated than ever.
Transform Ideas Into Impact
Discover how we bring healthcare innovations to life.