Headquarters
Palo Alto, CAFounded
2023CEO / Founder
Munjal ShahEmployees
51-200Funding
Series B — $278MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.8/10Website
hippocraticai.com/Profile updated
Hippocratic AI is a Palo Alto-based company founded in 2023 by Munjal Shah and a team of healthcare and AI researchers. The company builds generative AI agents designed for healthcare organizations, with an explicit constraint that its agents do not diagnose or prescribe medications. Its target customers include health systems, insurance payors, and pharmaceutical companies.
The company's AI agents are deployed across use cases such as patient outreach, care navigation, chronic disease management support, and post-discharge follow-up. Hippocratic AI reports partnerships with more than 60 organizations and claims over 180 million clinical interactions conducted through its platform. The agents are designed to handle high-volume, repetitive patient communication tasks at lower cost than human staffing.
Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million seed round in 2023, followed by a $141 million Series A in early 2024, and subsequently closed a Series B round bringing total disclosed funding to approximately $278 million. The company has grown its workforce to an estimated 51–200 employees. Munjal Shah, a serial entrepreneur previously known for co-founding Like.com (acquired by Google), serves as CEO.
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Who Hippocratic AI competes with, and how they differ.
Notable automates front-office and administrative patient workflows (intake, scheduling, prior authorization) with AI, while Hippocratic AI's agents run clinical-adjacent conversations — post-discharge follow-up, chronic-care check-ins — under an explicit no-diagnose/no-prescribe safety architecture.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedMemora Health built two-way AI-driven SMS care journeys for post-discharge and chronic-condition management, the closest product overlap to Hippocratic AI's phone-based outreach; it was acquired by Commure in 2024 and now operates as Commure Engage inside Commure's broader clinical platform rather than as a standalone competitor.
Infinitus's voice AI agent "Eva" focuses on payer- and pharma-side administrative calls — benefits verification, prior authorization, specialty-pharmacy follow-up — rather than direct patient conversations, and was founded in 2019, several years before Hippocratic AI entered the market.
Assort Health's voice agents concentrate on inbound/outbound scheduling and referral routing for specialty practices (dermatology, orthopedics) integrated directly into EHR/PMS systems — a narrower front-desk slice of the patient journey than Hippocratic AI's broader library of clinical-adjacent agents.
Key milestones in Hippocratic AI's history, with sources.
Launches AI Front Door and Nurse Co-Pilot voice AI products
Two new voice AI products built on the Polaris safety architecture, validated across 180+ million patient interactions with 99.90% correct clinical advice and zero severe-harm events: AI Front Door replaces fragmented hospital call centers, and Nurse Co-Pilot, co-developed with Cincinnati Children's, OhioHealth and Cleveland Clinic, targets returning 1-4 hours of nursing time per shift.
prnewswire.comSeries C — $126M at $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth
Led by Avenir Growth with CapitalG, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins participating; brought total funding to $404M. Proceeds earmarked for M&A, product development and international expansion.
hippocraticai.comKPMG International announces global collaboration
KPMG and Hippocratic AI partnered to help health systems and governments deploy clinically safe generative AI agents amid a projected global shortage of 10 million health workers by 2030.
finance.yahoo.comUniversal Health Services deploys post-discharge follow-up agents
UHS launched Hippocratic AI's generative AI agents at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center (Las Vegas) and Texoma Medical Center (Denison, TX) to make post-discharge follow-up calls; agents averaged a 9.0/10 patient satisfaction rating.
uhs.comSeries B — $141M at $1.64B valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins
Reached unicorn status nine months after its Series A; Kleiner Perkins led with General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia participating.
techcrunch.comLaunches Healthcare AI Agent App Store
Licensed US clinicians can design and deploy custom non-diagnostic AI healthcare agents without coding in under 30 minutes; creators earn a share of usage fees. Announced alongside the Series B close.
emarketer.comSeries A — $53M at $500M valuation
Co-led by Premji Invest and General Catalyst with participation from SV Angel, Memorial Hermann, a16z, Cincinnati Children's, WellSpan Health and UHS, bringing total funding to $120M. Announced alongside the company's first commercial product: a staffing marketplace for non-diagnostic generative AI healthcare agents.
globenewswire.comSeed — $50M co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz
Launched from stealth with a $50M seed round, one of the largest seed checks a16z had written for a healthcare company at the time, with participation from health systems including Memorial Hermann and Universal Health Services.
globenewswire.comHippocratic AI founded by Munjal Shah and a clinical/AI research co-founding team
Founded by CEO Munjal Shah (previously founder/CEO of Health IQ, and of Like.com, acquired by Google in 2010) together with Dr. Meenesh Bhimani — then COO and an emergency physician at El Camino Health — as co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, plus a founding cohort drawn from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, UPenn, Google and Nvidia. The company emerged from stealth in May 2023.
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