Entrepreneur, CEO, And Co-Founder of Hippocratic AI

Munjal Shah

Entrepreneur, CEO, And Co-Founder of Hippocratic AI

By The Numbers

25+

Years in AI

Munjal was involved in AI “before it was cool,” researching neural networks as a UCSD undergraduate.

19

Patents

Focusing on health-related computing systems that optimize healthcare services through predictive algorithms and dynamic user interactions.

4

Companies co-founded and led

Munjal has co-founded and led 4 companies, 3 involving AI, in the e-commerce, health insurance and healthcare industries.

ABOUT Munjal

Munjal Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI,

A generative artificial intelligence startup focused on building foundation models for health care and using it to improve patient outcomes, lower health care costs, and address the growing shortage of health care workers worldwide.

Founded by generative AI researchers, hospital administrators, physicians, and Medicare experts, Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused large language model to provide nondiagnostic health care services. Its large language model outperformed Open AI’s GPT-4 on 105 of 114 health care exams and certifications. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $120M in funding and is backed by leading investors, including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Premji Invest, and SV Angel.

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MUNJAL SHAH’S AUDACIOUS BET ON THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE AI

As co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, Munjal Shah is developing artificial intelligence that he believes could fundamentally reshape how medical care is delivered. His company’s generative AI large language models, purpose-built for healthcare, aim to take on countless routine tasks. Those tasks are currently performed by healthcare providers, everything from preoperative instructions to chronic disease management check-ins.

“What if instead of doing a co-pilot model, we do autopilot?” Shah posits, contrasting his vision with AI tools designed merely to assist human clinicians. “What if we build fully automated AIs that call people on the phone and talk to them? Imagine an AI that can do nondiagnostic, low-risk tasks like preoperative calls and medication reminders?”

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