Open by Default
Core transformation logic should be transparent, inspectable, and community-reviewed, not trapped in black boxes.
Company
Building the Standard for Healthcare Analytics
Tuva exists to make healthcare analytics infrastructure transparent, affordable, and scalable for every organization.
What Tuva Believes
Built for Practitioners
Everything Tuva builds is shaped by real-world healthcare data and analytics teams working in production every day.
The Story Behind Tuva
Why Tuva Started
Aaron and Coco had both rebuilt the same healthcare data platform at multiple organizations. Each time, teams repeated the same foundational work from scratch, and everyone lost time rebuilding plumbing instead of doing high-value analytics.
At the same time, off-the-shelf platforms were often costing millions of dollars, while still limiting flexibility and transparency.
They also realized almost no one was truly building for healthcare data and analytics practitioners. So they started Tuva: an open foundation that lets teams stop reinventing the wheel and focus on the analytics that actually improve care.
Why the Name Tuva
Aaron and Coco are massive Richard Feynman fans. Feynman embodied the kind of intellectual honesty, curiosity, and rigor that the Tuva team tries to bring to healthcare analytics every day.
Tuva is an allegory for Feynman. Tuva was formerly a country in the Soviet Union. For more than a decade before his death, Feynman and his friend Ralph Leighton tried to travel to the country of Tuva. What started as a joke became a mission - and it was challenging. Getting a visa to Soviet Russia during the cold war was next to impossible. Ultimately Feynman died a few weeks before their visas came, but Ralph traveled to Tuva and chronicled the trip and their adventure trying to get there in his book Tuva or Bust.
Ralph helped pen a number of other books about Feynman which the Tuva team highly recommends. For readers new to Feynman, a strong starting point is Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.
The Tuva Project is Tuva's attempt to fix healthcare data - Tuva or Bust.
Leadership
Tuva is led by practitioners who have built healthcare data platforms in real production environments.
Aaron Neiderhiser
CEO and Co-Founder
Prior to Tuva, Aaron served as Senior Vice President of Technology at Health Catalyst, where he led Touchstone, a healthcare data warehouse supporting benchmarking, machine learning, and real-world evidence across more than 150 million patients.
Earlier in his career, he worked on data analysis and strategy for Colorado Medicaid, focusing on actuarial and population health use cases.
He completed graduate training in economics at the University of Colorado Denver, specializing in statistical methods of causality.
Coco (Jorge) Zuloaga
CTO and Co-Founder
Before co-founding Tuva, Coco served as Head of Data Science at Strive Health, where he oversaw machine learning systems used across value-based care workflows.
He also served as Head of Data Science at Big Squid and held lead data scientist roles at Health Catalyst and Alliance Health.
Coco earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a PhD in computational physics from Rice University, where he later taught and conducted research.