Cromodata

About Cromodata

Cromodata is an Argentine healthtech startup that has developed a collaborative platform to structure and anonymize clinical information from hospitals and diagnostic centers across Latin America. The company was founded by Keila Barral Masri (CEO), Matías Karlsson (CTO), and Juan Pablo Merea (COO). The inspiration for Cromodata came from CEO Keila Barral Masri's personal seven-year journey to receive a diagnosis for a medical condition, which she realized was due to her health data being fragmented across different providers. This experience, shared by other team members who are also patients, fuels the company's mission to connect health data for timely diagnoses.

The platform addresses the underrepresentation of Latin American data in global healthcare AI development, where it currently accounts for less than 1%. Cromodata connects data generators, such as clinics and hospitals, with data consumers like pharmaceutical companies, tech innovators, and researchers. The business model involves monetizing the anonymized data, which provides a new revenue stream for healthcare institutions and gives data consumers access to high-quality, diverse datasets for training AI models and accelerating research. Cromodata charges a fee for sourcing, anonymizing, securing, and linking the data between parties. The company's technology ensures data is encrypted and anonymized at the source, complying with international privacy standards like HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001. This allows for the tokenization of patient identities, enabling the linking of records from different institutions without revealing personal information.

As of October 2025, Cromodata works with 47 hospitals across five countries—Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico—and has processed over 20 million anonymized patient records. The company recently closed a pre-seed funding round of $1.2 million, led by PharmStars Ventures, a fund backed by major pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer and Roche. This investment will support its expansion and efforts to build a comprehensive health data ecosystem for the region.