# Sovato

> Sovato is a Santa Barbara health-tech company building the first comprehensive, system-agnostic platform for remote robotic surgery and procedures - what the industry calls telesurgery. Co-founded by surgical-robotics pioneer Yulun Wang and healthcare strategist Cynthia Perazzo, Sovato lets a skilled surgeon operate a robotic system from hundreds or thousands of miles away, aiming to extend top surgical care to patients regardless of where they live. The company has raised $41M across its rounds and helped enable the longest-distance telesurgery ever completed.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Santa Barbara, California, United States
- **Founders:** Cynthia Perazzo (Co-Founder & CEO), Yulun Wang (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~46 employees
- **Products:** Sovato Remote Surgery Platform, Hub-and-Spoke Programs, Clinical, Operational & Technical Guidelines
- **Notable:** Helped enable the first US-based transcontinental robotic telesurgery clinical trial (Florida to Angola, ~7,000 miles), the longest-distance telesurgery completed to date., Closed Series B bringing total funding to $41M with backing from Beringea, Polaris Partners, Intuitive, Teladoc Health and others., Demonstrated safety and feasibility across hundreds to thousands of miles in preclinical cases, domestically and internationally.

## Products & services

- **Sovato Remote Surgery Platform** — A system-agnostic software and infrastructure platform that remote-enables surgical, interventional, and diagnostic robotic systems, allowing a surgeon to operate from a distant control site over a low-latency connection.
- **Hub-and-Spoke Programs** — An operating model that lets healthcare organizations centralize surgical expertise at a hub and deliver it to spoke sites, extending the reach of scarce specialist surgeons.
- **Clinical, Operational & Technical Guidelines** — Frameworks for safety, accountability, and workflow developed with healthcare leaders and robotics organizations to make remote programs sustainable.

## Achievements

- Helped enable the first US-based transcontinental robotic telesurgery clinical trial (Florida to Angola, ~7,000 miles), the longest-distance telesurgery completed to date.
- Closed Series B bringing total funding to $41M with backing from Beringea, Polaris Partners, Intuitive, Teladoc Health and others.
- Demonstrated safety and feasibility across hundreds to thousands of miles in preclinical cases, domestically and internationally.
- Built a system-agnostic platform able to remote-enable multiple leading robotic systems.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Closed Series B led by Beringea, bringing total funding to $41M to scale its remote robotic surgery platform.
- **2025-06** — Helped enable a transcontinental telesurgery: a surgeon in Florida performed a robotic prostatectomy on a patient in Angola, the longest-distance telesurgery ever completed.

## Links

- Website: https://sovato.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sovato

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