Unicorner - 🦄 Apella: AI for operating rooms

 

• Raised $21 million Series A round with investors like Casdin Capital, Vensana Capital, Twine Ventures, Upside Partnership, Operator Partners, and PFM Health Sciences
• Has deployed to a handful of hospitals across the U.S. and plans to expand to another 5-10 hospitals in the first half of 2022

 

• Data Annotations Specialist
• Head of Talent Acquisition
• Senior Full-Stack Engineer
• Senior Infrastructure Engineer
• Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Whether using Google Maps to quickly find a restaurant, Amazon to efficiently get same-day delivery on an urgently needed item, or Uber to get a last-minute driver near you, we benefit from innovations enabled by tech in many ways. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said about surgeries. As Apella CEO David Schummers says, “hospitals run on legacy technologies, often using landline phones and overhead pagers to communicate.” But in situations where quick decision-making can mean the difference between life and death, technology that informs and organizes data can make a strong impact. That’s exactly what Apella is doing. By using AI to learn from data fed in from previous surgeries, Apella makes smart suggestions and swiftly addresses inefficiencies in operating rooms. While the company is still in its early stages, it’s very promising, and we’ll be tracking its expansion as it plans to work with additional hospitals later this year.