BOSTON (July 16, 2025) – Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) recently announced that Siva Namasivayam, co-founder and CEO of Cohere Health®, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 New England Award winner. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the preeminent competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. For 40 years, EY US has celebrated ambitious entrepreneurs who are transforming industries, impacting communities, and creating long-term value.
Namasivayam was selected by an independent panel of judges composed of past winners, top CEOs, and business leaders. Nominees are assessed based on long-term value creation, entrepreneurial spirit, purpose-driven commitment, and significant growth and impact.
“I’m incredibly honored to receive this recognition from EY,” said Siva Namasivayam. “When we founded Cohere, I saw an opportunity to fundamentally challenge the status quo and reshape prior authorization to be more efficient, less burdensome, and ultimately more supportive for providers and their patients. I’m grateful for the recognition, but it’s first and foremost a testament to the Cohere team. I’m a stronger leader because of the talented, driven people around me–and together, we remain focused on using clinical intelligence to solve real problems in healthcare.”
Founded in 2019, Cohere Health is the industry leader in AI-powered clinical intelligence, helping health plans and providers align to reduce administrative burden and improve care quality. With 85% of prior authorizations approved in real time, Cohere delivers a faster, more efficient experience for providers–and ultimately, better outcomes for patients.
The company has grown to nearly 800 employees nationally and continues to scale rapidly, most recently with the introduction of major platform innovations: Cohere Connect, designed to help health plans ensure regulatory compliance and interoperability; Cohere Align, which moves beyond gold carding to deliver personalized provider experiences in prior authorization; and Review Assist for faster, more accurate medical necessity reviews.
In 2025, the company also raised a $90 million Series C to further accelerate its mission of driving high-quality care and payer-provider collaboration through responsible, clinically guided AI.
As a New England award winner, Namasivayam is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 National Awards, to be announced in November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation’s most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates a wide array of leaders–from original founders and innovators to transformational CEOs and multigenerational family business leaders–who exemplify ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit.
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About Cohere Health
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving collaboration between physicians and health plans. Cohere works with nearly 700,000 providers and processes over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members. Cohere has been recognized in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers in 2024 and 2025, named a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup in 2023 and 2024, and is a three-time KLAS Points of Light award recipient.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year
Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year has celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 60 countries globally.
The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of independent judges select the regional award winners every June. Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum® in November where National finalists and award winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the US at the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ competition. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.
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