Shiv Rao
Karan Singh for BI; Courtesy of Shiv Rao
Tech

Shiv Rao

Founder and CEO of Abridge
Shiv Rao
Karan Singh for BI; Courtesy of Shiv Rao
Read in app

Abridge has quickly become the healthcare AI startup to watch. Rao founded Abridge in 2018 to automate medical notetaking with its large language models. Since then, it's landed dozens of hospital customers, including academic medical centers like Sutter Health and Yale New Haven Health, and a partnership with the electronic health records giant Epic. It's also gotten buy-in from major investors, including CVS Health Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Abridge in February announced it raised $150 million in Series C funding at an $850 million valuation. And in August, the startup got its biggest customer yet, notching a deal to provide its tech to Kaiser Permanente's clinicians.

See Business Insider's full AI Power List

Rebecca Torrence, Correspondent at Business Insider
Rebecca Torrence
Rebecca Torrence was formerly a correspondent at Business Insider covering startups and venture capital.She lead BI's reporting on healthcare startups while covering growth-stage companies and exits more broadly. She tracked private capital trends and breaks news on fundraises, M&A, and IPOs.Rebecca has been writing about healthcare technology for BI since 2022. Previously, she was a staff writer at Fierce Healthcare. She graduated from Duke University, where she studied neuroscience and journalism, and now lives in New York City. Have a tip? You can reach Rebecca at rtorrence@bjinnox.com or message her on the encrypted app Signal @rebeccatorrence.25. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here’s our guide to sharing information securely.Selected stories: