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Travv

“Can a modern cloud-native platform with AI-augmented workflows unseat the incumbent veterinary diagnostic labs?”

Founded2025
HQStillwater, Oklahoma, United States
FoundersDerick Whitley, Tony Pease, Zachary Runyan
Total raised$1.6M
Latest roundSeed, 2026
IndustryVertical SaaS / Veterinary Diagnostics
The story

Travv is a very early-stage (2025-founded, 5-employee) veterinary diagnostics startup building a cloud PACS/RIS platform with AI-powered radiology and cardiology reads. It is not a fintech and has no embedded finance offering. Founding team combines deep veterinary diagnostics domain expertise (Whitley from Antech/Vidium, Pease from ACVR/MSU) with technical AI leadership (Runyan from Lacuna Diagnostics; Craig from Stanford/JPL). The strategic bet is that traditional veterinary diagnostic labs (Antech, Idexx, Heska) are ripe for disruption by a modern cloud-native, AI-augmented workflow platform that integrates directly into hospital PIMS.

Last 12 months
2026-05
2026-05
Product timeline
2025
Travv founded in Stillwater, OK by Derick Whitley (ex-Antech, ex-Vidium Animal Health), Tony Pease (ex-ACVR president), and Zachary Runyan (ex-Lacuna/Heska) to build a cloud-based veterinary diagnostics platform.· pivot
2026
Launched Travv Dx (cloud PACS/RIS) with two live services: Travv Rads (radiology reads) and Travv Cardio (cardiology consults).· banking
2026
Closed $1.6M seed round.· pivot
2026
Hired John Craig, PhD (Stanford, ex-NASA JPL Mars Rover team, author of leading robotics textbook) as Director of Machine Learning.· pivot
The stack
0 layers disclosed in Travv’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none