# Erez Druk

> Erez Druk is the co-founder and CEO of Freed, an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation for physicians. A Technion-educated engineer who cut his teeth at Facebook, Druk built Freed after watching his wife - a family medicine physician - spend her evenings buried in patient notes. Since launching in 2023, Freed has grown to over 25,000 paying clinicians across 96 specialties, saved more than 2.7 million hours of documentation time, and raised a $30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital. Before Freed, Druk co-founded UrbanLeap, a government procurement platform that served 35 municipalities before closing in 2022.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Freed
- **Organizations:** Freed, UrbanLeap, Meta (Facebook)
- **From:** Israel
- **Nationality:** Israeli-American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Computer Science / Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Scholarship (saxophone), Berklee College of Music
- **Known for:** Grew Freed to 25,000+ paying clinicians across 96 specialties within two years of launch, Raised $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital (March 2025), total funding $34M, Platform generates 70,000+ patient notes per day

## Career timeline

- **Age 10** — Began learning saxophone; later earned a scholarship from Berklee School of Music
- **~2012** — Graduated from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, top of class
- **~2013-2017** — Software Engineer at Facebook (Meta), San Francisco - met future collaborators including Andrey Bannikov on his first day
- **2017** — Co-founded UrbanLeap, a web-based government procurement platform aimed at modernizing $4T in U.S. public spending
- **2017-2022** — Led UrbanLeap to serve 35 municipalities, deploying $16M+ in procurement. Company shut down November 2022.
- **2023** — Co-founded Freed with Andrey Bannikov; launched AI medical scribe product
- **2024** — Freed raised seed funding; grew to thousands of paying clinician subscribers
- **March 2025** — Freed raised $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital; 17,000+ paying clinicians

## Achievements

- Grew Freed to 25,000+ paying clinicians across 96 specialties within two years of launch
- Raised $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital (March 2025), total funding $34M
- Platform generates 70,000+ patient notes per day
- Saved clinicians over 2.7 million cumulative hours since 2023
- Named to CB Insights' 50 Most Promising Digital Health Startups 2025
- Led UrbanLeap to serve 35 U.S. municipalities and facilitate $16M+ in procurement
- Earned scholarship from Berklee School of Music for saxophone
- Graduated top of class from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Freed named to CB Insights' 50 Most Promising Digital Health Startups 2025
- **2025-03** — Freed raised $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Gokul Rajaram, and Ted Zagat
- **2025-03** — Freed launched specialty-specific note templates (Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine) and Chrome EHR extension
- **2025-02** — Freed reached 17,000+ paying clinicians, later growing to 25,000+, generating 70,000 notes per day

## Links

- Website: https://www.erezdruk.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drukerez
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ErezDruk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/druk.erez/

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Last updated: 2026-05-26