# Shiva Suri

> Shiva Suri is the founder and CEO of New Lantern, a San Francisco startup building an AI-native radiology platform that aims to automate roughly 90% of imaging workflows - dictation, report drafting, measurements, and worklist navigation. A University of Pennsylvania computer engineer and former Confluent software engineer, he started the company in 2021 after watching his radiologist mother burn most of her day on clerical busywork instead of reading scans. In November 2024 New Lantern raised a $19M Series A led by Benchmark's Eric Vishria, part of $22.6M total raised.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at New Lantern
- **Organizations:** New Lantern, Confluent, AppDynamics, University of Pennsylvania
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BSE, Computer Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, MSE, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Founded New Lantern, building what it calls the first complete AI radiology suite (the Curie platform), Raised a $19M Series A led by Benchmark, with $22.6M total funding, Attracted angel investors including Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Jay Kreps, Gokul Rajaram and Saji Wickramasekara

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Machine learning and software engineering internships, including a software engineering internship at AppDynamics
- **pre-2021** — Software Engineer at Confluent, working on cloud-native and data infrastructure
- **2021** — Founded New Lantern and became CEO, after watching his radiologist mother during pandemic lockdown
- **2024-11** — Raised $19M Series A led by Benchmark (Eric Vishria joining the board); $22.6M total raised
- **2025** — Expanded the platform with mammography and PET/CT viewers; presented efficiency results at SIIM 2025

## Achievements

- Founded New Lantern, building what it calls the first complete AI radiology suite (the Curie platform)
- Raised a $19M Series A led by Benchmark, with $22.6M total funding
- Attracted angel investors including Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Jay Kreps, Gokul Rajaram and Saji Wickramasekara
- Built a platform that, in a SIIM 2025 case study, cut dictated words 72%, navigation actions 97%, and returned ~100 minutes per shift

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — New Lantern raised a $19M Series A led by Benchmark; Eric Vishria joined the board.
- **2025-08** — New Lantern expanded its AI radiology platform with mammography and PET/CT viewers.
- **2025-11** — Featured by The Imaging Wire for its all-in-one Curie platform combining worklist, cloud PACS viewer, and AI report generation.

## Links

- Website: https://newlantern.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-suri
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/shivasuri_

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