Rising tides lift all boats, and the venture-backed surge in AI startups just helped boost Hippocratic AI’s valuation to $3.5B on the back of $126M in Series C funding.
Do no harm. Hippocratic’s “safety-focused” AI agents perform almost any low-risk, patient-facing task under the sun.
- That includes appointment scheduling, patient intake history, SDOH surveys, health risk assessments, post-discharge outreach, and even chronic condition management.
- They don’t diagnose patients or prescribe medications… at least not yet.
The Polaris Safety Constellation Architecture makes it all possible. Hippocratic’s healthcare LLM constellation leverages multiple specialized models that “double-check the primary model to ensure accuracy and safety.”
- The company then performs output testing, human evaluations, and cross-validations to make sure its models’ real-world performance lives up to their simulated testing.
- Hippocratic layers the safety talk on thick in its messaging, which is probably a decent idea considering the early pushback it received for replacing human workers and some past lawsuits.
Hippocratic is moving quickly. In just 15 months since commercialization, it’s established partnerships with over 50 major health systems, payors, and pharma clients in six countries.
- Many of those health system partners have also become investors after being “very impressed” on the safety front, including Universal Health Services, Cincinnati Children’s, and WellSpan Health.
- The AI agents have already expanded to more than 1,000 use cases and completed upwards of 115M patient interactions – with no reported safety issues.
The nine-figure round sets the tone for the next chapter. Hippocratic earmarked the funding to usher in an “era of abundance” that healthcare has never seen before.
- At the tactical level, that will involve fueling expansion through mergers and acquisitions, accelerating product development, and leaning in on international growth.
The Takeaway
Whether business makes bubbles or bubbles make business, raising another $143M from industry insiders makes it seem like business is booming at Hippocratic AI.
