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Greenoaks Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Scale Venture Partners While he was practicing as a neurosurgeon in the U.K., Mansi saw firsthand how surgery could go well, yet the patient would die because too much time had passed before getting to the operating room.
In 2016, while working on an M.B.A. at Stanford Business School, he met Golan, an Israeli machine-learning postdoc who’d recently been discharged from the hospital after a suspected stroke. The two bonded over the lack of data to drive better medical decisions and pitched their idea to improve stroke care in a class run by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who offered seed funding through his firm Innovation Endeavors. The San Francisco-based company’s software cross-references CT images of a patient’s brain with its database of scans to find early signs of large vessel occlusion strokes. “The algorithm will read the scan in 60 seconds of coming to the ER, and instead of taking four or five hours and 12 or 13 phone calls, 60 seconds later an alert will go off on my phone and I will be able to see all the images on my phone,” says Mansi, 36. The result: Nearly 900 hospitals have signed up, including the Cleveland Clinic and Geisinger, and it became the rare AI technology approved by Medicare. Viz.ai is now expanding from strokes to coronary embolisms and aortic dissections.
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