SÃO PAULO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Semantix, Inc. (NASDAQ: STIX), a leading Latin American end-to-end data platform provider (“Semantix”), today announces the acquisition of Zetta Health Analytics S.A. (“Zetta”), a Brazilian health tech company focused on data analytics, with the strategic objective to further expand Semantix’s presence and capabilities in serving healthcare clients through proprietary SaaS data solutions.
Founded in March 2019, Zetta has a robust variety of SaaS data solutions to enhance data-driven decision-making, leveraging client insights to improve care and costs and deepen value-based healthcare (VBHC) approach enriched by market analysis. In particular, Zetta provides to clients embedded dashboards utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) tools that help manage claims and improve assertiveness through the display of key indicators to optimize selection of providers and health outcomes. Currently, Zetta caters to a portfolio of more than 640 companies, including pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, health insurance brokers, hospitals and large companies in various sectors. In recognition of the powerful capabilities of Zetta’s data solutions, Zetta was named the number one tech company in the Brazilian healthcare market, according to the Ranking 100 Open Startups 2021.
Semantix expects that the businesses combination with Zetta will complement the Semantix Data Platform (“SDP”) offering and strengthen the healthcare business vertical, which caters to a sizeable and fast-growing market. According to market research produced by Grand View Research, the healthcare data analytics segment’s total addressable market globally is estimated at approximately US$35 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 167 billion by 2030.
Zetta also brings a team of highly talented professionals, which, Semantix believes, combined with Semantix’s capital resources and robust sales capabilities, should accelerate new product development and enhance product cross-selling opportunities.
“We are very excited about the new business capabilities that Zetta adds to our platform, both in terms of new markets and customers as well as new product development opportunities. We believe it is an important step towards the execution of our strategy to increase the share of proprietary products to our mix, with a recurring revenue stream and high growth potential,” said Leonardo Santos, CEO of Semantix.
About Semantix
Semantix is a leading Latin American end-to-end data platform provider. Semantix has more than 300 clients with operations in approximately 15 countries using Semantix’s software and services to enhance their businesses. The company was founded in 2010 by CEO Leonardo Santos. For more information, visit ir.semantix.ai.
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