Our Trusted Partners in the Healthcare Innovation Ecosystem
We help translate clinical value into market-ready impact.
In the healthtech world, too many great solutions stall between product validation and real-world implementation. Not because they lack impact, but because navigating payer systems, incentives, and contracting pathways is slow, opaque, and fragmented. Akros brings structure to that chaos.
Accelerating Success: What We Offer At Akros
Payer Readiness Assessment
A diagnostic deep dive that evaluates your market, product, and payer strategy to pinpoint exactly what’s needed to accelerate commercialization with payers.
Payer GTM Playbook
A customized go-to-market roadmap that connects your evidence, pricing, and messaging into a cohesive strategy built for payer traction.
Business Development in a Box
Hands-on business development expert support that transforms strategy into execution. Drives meetings, partnerships, and real payer momentum.
Akademy Courses
A suite of classes that turn payer strategy into a teachable skillset, helping teams build internal expertise and long-term confidence.
Our Impact by the Numbers
35+ Solutions
Led growth strategies for 35+ domestic and international healthtech solutions, accelerating time-to-market and scaling innovative health technologies.
$24M
Enabled startups to secure $24M+ in funding by developing and implementing strategic reimbursement and commercialization plans.
3 Months
Reduced payer sales cycles to 3 months (~86% faster) compared to the industry benchmark of 18–24 months, streamlining contract negotiations for clients.
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Innovation and Success: Why Our Clients Choose Akros
Our approach is collaborative, transparent, and results-driven. We know that your solution is about changing lives, and we want to help you do that faster.
"The Akros team has the latest pulse on the payer market and connections needed for success.
Demi is a pleasure to work with and she made our collaboration extremely easy by proactively communicating new findings, necessary pivots, and welcoming feedback. I highly recommend working with the Akros team if you are interested in landing payer sales."
Founder & CEO
Behavioral Health Platform Solution
"Demi was deeply knowledgeable, insightful, flexible, and responsive as our needs evolved. She worked with us to give shape and life to the ideas we have generated over the years.
But most of all, Demi cared about our mission and the people we serve. She struck the right balance between mission/vision and the practical realities of business needs."
VP of Business Development
Regional Non-Profit
“Demi was integral in making sure our product strategy aligned with key priorities for payers. She helped us to estimate the potential cost savings of our solution and engage with the right stakeholders."
Morgan Hewett
Co-Founder and CEO, OptionsMD
“Demi helped us navigate an incredibly complex organization to get to the appropriate stakeholders and mentored us to secure our first pilot with an ideal enterprise customer. She goes above and beyond to help others with connections, healthcare expertise, and strategy. And she is an absolute joy to work with!"
Asaf Krause
CEO, Dieta
"We need this assessment not just for strategy, but to lay out the how. How do we go from here to there? What's next for the website, the product, marketing, and the roadmap?
[The Readiness Assessment] gives us the clarity we need."
Dr. Davetta Hammond
CEO, Virent Health
“I want to pause you for just a moment because my camera is not on, so you don't get to see that I’m grinning from ear to ear as you're running through this stuff... I'm really happy with everything I'm seeing here.
I’ve had a consistent issue of missing the forest for the trees when it comes to getting to the 'WHO CARES' part of what we’re doing. Everything you’re pulling out here is everything I’ve wanted to say and not really known how.”
Josh Rabinowitz
CEO, Articulate Labs
Find Your Path to the Top
Our name comes from the Greek word akros, meaning "at the highest point." We're here to help you reach new levels in healthcare success.
At Akros, we take a holistic approach with everything we do. We work closely with you to understand your specific goals and challenges, and we develop solutions to accelerate your ascent.
Drawing on our extensive experience in developing and executing innovative strategies within the largest health insurance companies nationwide, spanning Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid, we are committed to leveraging our intimate understanding of payers to assist you in bringing your solutions to market.