New York, NY – Sept. 1, 2026 – Violet has been named a 2026 Fierce 50 honoree by Fierce Pharma, Fierce Biotech and Fierce Healthcare. The Fierce 50 recognizes 50 individuals and organizations driving advancements in medicine, fostering innovation and shaping the future of biopharma and healthcare. 

“Now in its fourth year, the Fierce 50 continues to show that progress in this industry doesn’t come from just one place,” said Ayla Ellison, editor-in-chief of Fierce Life Sciences and Healthcare. “It’s showing up in the lab, in executive leadership, in community clinics and in advocacy work that never makes headlines. Whether it’s a biotech pushing a new therapy toward patients or a grassroots organization fighting for someone to get the care they need, these honorees remind us that impact takes a lot of different shapes. We’re honored to celebrate all of them.” 

Violet is incredibly grateful and proud of this honor. Violet actively serves over 100,000 providers on the Violet Platform to measure, improve, and showcase each provider’s abiltiites delivering person-centered care. 

“It’s been such a privilege seeing the industry continue moving in the right direction of prioritizing innovations that advance health equity via person-centered care. Whether it's a health plan looking to understand network performance or an individual provider seeking to improve their quality of care, Violet’s technology is here to support you on making contributions to advance health equity across our country.” – Gaurang Choksi, Founder & CEO at Violet 

Chosen by the editors of Fierce Pharma, Fierce Biotech and Fierce Healthcare, this year's Fierce 50 honorees reflect the breadth of talent and vision shaping the biopharma and healthcare industries today. From startups to established organizations, each has made a distinct contribution, whether by advancing scientific discovery, improving the health of communities, expanding access to care or reimagining how healthcare is delivered at a local level or on a global scale.

To learn more about all of the honorees, click here: https://www.fiercepharma.com/collection/fierce-50-2026.

To learn more about why Violet recieved this award, click here: https://www.fiercepharma.com/fierce-50/violet

About Violet Health

Violet is the first-ever platform improving quality of care by verifying providers for their capabilities of delivering person-centered care to diverse communities. Violet partners with health plans (e.g. United Healthcare, NHP, Horizon BCBS NJ, etc.) and care delivery organizations of all sizes (e.g. Northwell, One Medical, etc.) to: measure, improve, and showcase quality care. Violet leverages AI-powered analytics to gauge provider skills delivering tailored care across key patient populations and identifies areas for improvement. Violet then leverages clinical quality education to directly improve quality of care. Violet’s early results show that person-centered care is enabling partners to both make large advancements growing their business and lowering total cost of care.

About Fierce Pharma
Fierce Pharma is the go-to destination for the news and trends shaping the industry. Our focus daily is on news about approved drugs and every aspect of pharma’s operations as well as the people who move pharma forward. Our coverage also feeds longer-form content, podcasts and events. In staying on top of the news, our journalists have developed a loyal audience. Critically, we explain the news—often complicated technology or business maneuvers—and put it in context that brings it home for our readers and listeners in their work lives.

About Fierce Biotech
Fierce Biotech is the dominant B2B news brand for the industry. Every day, we track the companies, people and ideas reshaping biotech: from the discovery through clinical trials, approvals and commercialization, and the venture funding, partnerships, IPOs and M&A that power it all. That reporting fuels our long-form features, podcasts and events, where deal flow, data and on-the-ground insight come together into the fullest picture of where the industry is headed.

About Fierce Healthcare
At Fierce Healthcare, we deliver the news and analysis that healthcare can't afford to miss. Our newsroom serves the people building, running, and reshaping this industry: hospital executives and physicians, payers, policymakers, researchers and the entrepreneurs betting on what comes next. Wherever healthcare is being disrupted, financed, regulated, or reinvented, we're covering it, with breaking news, exclusive interviews and deep reporting that connects the dots between a boardroom decision and a patient's bedside experience.