Hip­po­crat­ic AI rais­es $141M to staff hos­pi­tals with clin­i­cal AI agents 

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Mean­while, Kristi­na Dulaney, RN, PMH‑C, the founder of Cher­ished Mom, an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to solv­ing mater­nal men­tal health chal­lenges, helped to cre­ate an AI agent that’s focused on help­ing new moth­ers nav­i­gate such prob­lems with post­par­tum men­tal health assess­ments and depres­sion screen­ing. The start­up was ini­tial­ly focused on cre­at­ing gen­er­a­tive AI chat­bots to sup­port clin­i­cians and oth­er health­care pro­fes­sion­als, but has since switched its focus to patients them­selves. Its most advanced mod­els take advan­tage of the lat­est devel­op­ments in AI agents, which are a form of AI that can per­form more com­plex tasks while work­ing unsu­per­vised. Despite rapid advance­ments in AI, cre­ators in open-source ecosys­tems face sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges in mon­e­tiz­ing deriv­a­tive works and secur­ing prop­er attribution.

Sto­ry, the glob­al intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty blockchain, has announced its inte­gra­tion with Sta­bil­i­ty AI’s state-of-the-art mod­els to rev­o­lu­tion­ize open-source AI devel­op­ment. This col­lab­o­ra­tion enables cre­ators, devel­op­ers, and artists to cap­ture the val­ue they con­tribute to the AI ecosys­tem by lever­ag­ing blockchain tech­nol­o­gy to ensure prop­er attri­bu­tion, track­ing, and mon­e­ti­za­tion of cre­ative works gen­er­at­ed through AI. Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, is invest­ing in AI and biotech to lead the way in innovation.

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In a state­ment, Rasp­ber­ry AI said the fund­ing would be used to accel­er­ate its prod­uct devel­op­ment and add top engi­neer­ing, sales and mar­ket­ing tal­ent to its team. But with U.S. com­pa­nies rais­ing and/​or spend­ing record sums on new AI infra­struc­ture that many experts have not­ed depre­ci­ate rapid­ly (due to hardware/​chip and soft­ware advance­ments), the ques­tion remains which vision of the future will win out in the end to become the dom­i­nant AI provider for the world. Or maybe it will always be a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of mod­els each with a small­er mar­ket share? That’s fol­lowed by more exten­sive eval­u­a­tions and safe­ty assess­ments by an exten­sive net­work of more than 6,000 nurs­es and 300 doc­tors, who will con­firm that it pass­es all required safe­ty tests.

Once the AI agent is up and run­ning, the clin­i­cians who cre­at­ed it will be able to claim a share of the rev­enue it gen­er­ates from the startup’s cus­tomers. Cur­rent­ly the tech­nol­o­gy is being used by Under Armour, MCM World­wide, Grup­po Ted­dy and Li & Fung to cre­ate and iter­ate appar­el, footwear and acces­sories styles. The company’s exist­ing investors Grey­croft, Cor­re­la­tion Ven­tures and MVP Ven­tures also joined in the round, along with notable angel investors, includ­ing Gokul Rajaram and Ken Pilot. Clear­ly, even as he espous­es a com­mit­ment to open source AI, Zuck is not con­vinced that DeepSeek’s approach of opti­miz­ing for effi­cien­cy while lever­ag­ing far few­er GPUs than major labs is the right one for Meta, or for the future of AI.

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Sto­ry is the world’s intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty blockchain, trans­form­ing IP into net­works that tran­scend medi­ums and plat­forms, unleash­ing glob­al cre­ativ­i­ty and liq­uid­i­ty. By inte­grat­ing Sta­bil­i­ty AI’s advanced mod­els, Sto­ry is tak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant step toward build­ing a fair and sus­tain­able inter­net for cre­ators and devel­op­ers in the age of gen­er­a­tive AI. Hip­po­crat­ic AI said it’s nec­es­sary to have clin­i­cians onboard because they have, over the course of their careers, devel­oped deep exper­tise in their respec­tive fields, as well as the prac­ti­cal insights to help cure spe­cif­ic med­ical con­di­tions and the clin­i­cal work­flows involved.

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Sto­ry aims to bridge this gap by com­bin­ing Sta­bil­i­ty AI’s cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy with blockchain’s abil­i­ty to secure dig­i­tal prop­er­ty rights. For exam­ple, cre­ators could reg­is­ter unique styles or voic­es as intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty on Sto­ry with trans­par­ent usage terms. This would enable oth­ers to train and fine-tune AI mod­els using this IP, ensur­ing that all con­trib­u­tors in the cre­ative chain ben­e­fit when out­puts are monetized.

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Hol­ger Mueller of Con­stel­la­tion Research Inc. said Hip­po­crat­ic AI is bring­ing two of the lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy trends to the health­care indus­try, name­ly no-code or low-code soft­ware devel­op­ment and AI agents. The launch is a bold step for­ward in health­care inno­va­tion, giv­ing clin­i­cians the oppor­tu­ni­ty to par­tic­i­pate in the design of AI agents that can address var­i­ous aspects of patient care. It says clin­i­cians can cre­ate an AI agent pro­to­type that spe­cial­izes in their area of focus in less than 30 min­utes, and around three to four hours to devel­op one that can be test­ed. Shah said the last nine months since the company’s pre­vi­ous $50 mil­lion fund­ing round have seen it make tremen­dous progress. Dur­ing that time, it has received its first U.S. patents, ful­ly eval­u­at­ed and ver­i­fied the safe­ty of its first AI health­care agents, and signed con­tracts with 23 health sys­tems, pay­ers and phar­ma clients.

For instance, one of its AI agents is spe­cial­ized in chron­ic care man­age­ment, med­ica­tion checks and post-dis­charge fol­low-up regard­ing spe­cif­ic con­di­tions such as kid­ney fail­ure and con­ges­tive heart fail­ure. The health­care-focused arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence start­up Hip­po­crat­ic AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $141 mil­lion Series B fund­ing round that brings its total amount raised to more than $278 mil­lion. “This round of financ­ing will accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of the Hip­po­crat­ic gen­er­a­tive AI-dri­ven super staffing and con­tin­ue our quest to make health­care abun­dance a real­i­ty,” he promised. Rasp­ber­ry AI, the gen­er­a­tive AI plat­form for fash­ion cre­atives, has secured 24 mil­lion US dol­lars in Series A fund­ing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Today, we’re going in-depth on blockchain inno­va­tion with Robert Roose, an entre­pre­neur who’s on a mis­sion to fix today’s bro­ken mon­e­tary sys­tem. Hip­po­crat­ic AI’s ear­ly cus­tomers include Arkos Health Inc., Belong Health Inc., Cincin­nati Children’s, Fras­er Health Author­i­ty (Cana­da), Guide­Health, Hon­or Health, Deca Den­tal Man­age­ment, LLC, Ohio­Health, WellSpan Health and oth­er well-known health­care sys­tems and hospitals.

By incor­po­rat­ing this wis­dom into its AI agents, it’s mak­ing them safer and improv­ing patient out­comes, it said. Cru­cial­ly, any agent cre­at­ed using its plat­form will under­go exten­sive safe­ty train­ing by both the cre­ator and Hip­po­crat­ic AI’s own staff. Every clin­i­cian will have access to a dash­board to track their AI agent’s per­for­mance and use and receive feed­back for fur­ther development.

All these indi­cate the com­mit­ment a16z has in shap­ing the future of tech­nol­o­gy and health­care through strate­gic invest­ments. Both plat­forms use Sta­bil­i­ty AI’s mod­els to bring cre­ators’ visions to life and Story’s blockchain tech­nol­o­gy to enable prove­nance and attri­bu­tion through­out the cre­ative process. These real-world appli­ca­tions high­light how cre­ators can safe­guard their intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty while thriv­ing in a shared cre­ative econ­o­my. Rasp­ber­ry AI offers brands and man­u­fac­tur­ing cre­ative teams tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions, which can help accel­er­ate each stage of the fash­ion prod­uct devel­op­ment cycle to increase speed to mar­ket and prof­itabil­i­ty while reduc­ing costs. Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, is one of the lead­ing AI investors and tar­gets only inno­v­a­tive star­tups. They par­tic­i­pat­ed in the round that fund­ed Any­sphere on Jan­u­ary 14, 2025, with a total sum of $105 mil­lion for an AI cod­ing tool known as Cur­sor, whose val­u­a­tion has reached $2.5 billion.

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In order to ensure its AI agents can do their jobs safe­ly, Hip­po­crat­ic AI says it only works with licensed clin­i­cians to devel­op them, tak­ing steps to ver­i­fy their qual­i­fi­ca­tions and expe­ri­ence first. Once clin­i­cians have built their agents, they’ll be sub­mit­ted to the start­up for an ini­tial round of test­ing. Through the Hip­po­crat­ic AI Agent App Store, health­care orga­ni­za­tions and hos­pi­tals will be able to access a range of spe­cial­ized AI agents for dif­fer­ent aspects of med­ical care.

The start­up was co-found­ed by Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer and ser­i­al entre­pre­neur Mun­jal Shah and a group of physi­cians, hos­pi­tal admin­is­tra­tors, health­care pro­fes­sion­als and AI researchers from orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing El Camino Health LLC, Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty, Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, Microsoft Corp., Google and Nvidia Corp. PIP Labs, an ini­tial core con­trib­u­tor to the Sto­ry Net­work, is backed by investors includ­ing a16z cryp­to, Endeav­or, and Poly­chain. Co-found­ed by a ser­i­al entre­pre­neur with a $440M exit and DeepMind’s youngest PM, PIP Labs boasts a vet­er­an found­ing exec­u­tive team with exper­tise in con­sumer tech, gen­er­a­tive AI, and Web3 infra­struc­ture. The start­up has also cre­at­ed oth­er AI agents for tasks like pre- and post-surgery wound care, extreme heat wave prepa­ra­tion, home health checks, dia­betes screen­ing and edu­ca­tion, and many more besides. The start­up said its AI Agent cre­ators include Dr. Vanes­sa Doris­mond MD, MA, MAS, a dis­tin­guished obste­tri­cian and gyne­col­o­gist at El Camino Women’s Med­ical Group and Teal Health, who helped to cre­ate an AI agent that’s focused on cer­vi­cal can­cer check-ins and enhanc­ing patient edu­ca­tion. Accord­ing to the start­up, the objec­tive of these AI agents is to try and solve the mas­sive short­age of trained nurs­es, social work­ers and nutri­tion­ists in the health­care indus­try, both in the U.S. and globally.

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The same day, a16z also led a Series A invest­ment in Sling­shot AI, which has raised a total of $40 mil­lion to cre­ate a foun­da­tion mod­el for psy­chol­o­gy. Those invest­ments high­light the com­mit­ment of the group to using AI to address impor­tant issues and are also focus­ing on how AI can improve dif­fer­ent indus­tries, includ­ing health­care and con­sumer ser­vices. In gen­er­al, a16z is com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing AI inno­va­tions that could have a pro­found impact on soci­ety. We are thrilled to see our mod­els used in Story’s blockchain tech­nol­o­gy to ensure prop­er attri­bu­tion and reward con­trib­u­tors,” said Scott Trow­bridge, Vice Pres­i­dent of Sta­bil­i­ty AI. Oth­ers include Kacie Spencer, DNP, RN, the chief nurs­ing offi­cer at Adtalem Glob­al Edu­ca­tion Inc., who has more than 20 years of expe­ri­ence in emer­gency nurs­ing and clin­i­cal edu­ca­tion. Her AI agent is focused on patient edu­ca­tion for the prop­er instal­la­tion of child car seats.

It par­tic­i­pat­ed in an Any­sphere round that had the com­pa­ny rais­ing $105 mil­lion on Jan­u­ary 14, 2025, when it pushed the val­u­a­tion up to $2.5 bil­lion. Beyond this, it has also released a $500 mil­lion Biotech Ecosys­tem Ven­ture Fund with Eli Lil­ly to place a focus on health tech­nolo­gies, but with the aspect of inno­v­a­tive appli­ca­tions. On the same day, they led a Series A invest­ment in Sling­shot AI, a com­pa­ny that’s devel­op­ing advanced gen­er­a­tive AI tech­nol­o­gy for men­tal health. Addi­tion­al­ly, a16z invest­ed in Rasp­ber­ry AI to bring gen­er­a­tive AI to the front of fash­ion design and pro­duc­tion. In Decem­ber 2024, they envi­sioned a future in which AI was used aggres­sive­ly in near­ly all sectors.

• The start­up said its AI Agent cre­ators include Dr. Vanes­sa Doris­mond MD, MA, MAS, a dis­tin­guished obste­tri­cian and gyne­col­o­gist at El Camino Women’s Med­ical Group and Teal Health, who helped to cre­ate an AI agent that’s focused on cer­vi­cal can­cer check-ins and enhanc­ing patient education.
• Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, is one of the lead­ing AI investors and tar­gets only inno­v­a­tive startups.
• Hip­po­crat­ic AI said it’s nec­es­sary to have clin­i­cians onboard because they have, over the course of their careers, devel­oped deep exper­tise in their respec­tive fields, as well as the prac­ti­cal insights to help cure spe­cif­ic med­ical con­di­tions and the clin­i­cal work­flows involved.
• It says clin­i­cians can cre­ate an AI agent pro­to­type that spe­cial­izes in their area of focus in less than 30 min­utes, and around three to four hours to devel­op one that can be tested.