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title: "Ben Hackett"
description: "Ben Hackett is named as founder and CEO of Basalt Health in a public source Presspool read for that company, basalt.health. The role is printed in the words that source uses. This page is the Presspool record of that line: the person, the company record, the niche map when Basalt Health is on one, and the sample of how often AI answers are collected for `who is Ben Hackett`."
canonical: "https://presspool.ai/founders/ben-hackett-basalt"
last-updated: "2026-11-02"
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# Ben Hackett

Founder record · Presspool · https://presspool.ai/founders/ben-hackett-basalt

Ben Hackett is named as founder and CEO of [Basalt Health](https://presspool.ai/companies/basalt-health) in a public source Presspool read for that company, [basalt.health](https://basalt.health/basalt-series-a). The role is printed in the words that source uses. This page is the Presspool record of that line: the person, the company record, the niche map when Basalt Health is on one, and the sample of how often AI answers are collected for `who is Ben Hackett`.

The source URL is the sameAs on this page. Ben Hackett is here because a page already read for a Presspool company stated the name in a founder line, and that company has its own Presspool record. The founders index lists names from A to Z.

Basalt Health (basalt.health) is on Presspool at [Basalt Health](https://presspool.ai/companies/basalt-health). The company record describes it in these words: Basalt builds AI for healthcare admissions so the right patients get a post-acute bed faster.

Latest announced financing: $20 million, Series A, led by New Enterprise Associates, announced September 24, 2026.

Basalt Health announced $20 million Series A on September 24, 2026. Led by New Enterprise Associates. Total raised is about $24.5 million. The round is listed in the [AI startup funding roster for September 21–26, 2026](https://presspool.ai/ai-startup-funding/week-of-2026-09-21). Round sources: [Basalt Health](https://basalt.health/basalt-series-a), [Ventureburn](https://ventureburn.com/basalt-health-raises-20m-ai-post-acute-care).

Of the 61 Series A rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Basalt Health's $20 million is the joint 33rd largest; their median is $21 million.

Sources on the Basalt Health company record: [Basalt Health](https://basalt.health/basalt-series-a), [Ventureburn](https://ventureburn.com/basalt-health-raises-20m-ai-post-acute-care).

Basalt Health is on a Presspool funding roster. Presspool has no niche map membership on file for Basalt Health, so this page links no niche.

Sampling in progress. Presspool has no completed sample of the question `who is Ben Hackett` for Ben Hackett, so this page shows no naming rate. A rate is published only as answers, of attempts, by app, taken from observations already collected, along with the domains those answers cited. No count is estimated, and an empty sample is not reported as zero.

Whether AI answers name Basalt Health is reported on the company record. The sample on this page, when one exists, is the person question for Ben Hackett. Cited domains are listed when that sample contains them. The index lists founders from A to Z, and no one pays to be included. Corrections need a public source and go to the [contact page](https://presspool.ai/contact). The record behind this page was built November 4, 2026.

## Source

- [https://basalt.health/basalt-series-a](https://basalt.health/basalt-series-a)

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