# Surgo Health

> Surgo Health is a Washington, DC-based Public Benefit Corporation building healthcare's universal 'Why Engine' - an AI-powered platform that decodes the beliefs, biases, and barriers driving human health decisions. By combining behavioral science, data science, and machine learning, its products (BehavioralPulse, Mosaic, Derin, and EchoHER) help life sciences companies, payers, providers, and public-sector organizations understand the people behind the patients and design more effective, human-centered care.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- **Founders:** Sema Sgaier (Co-founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~52 employees (LinkedIn); ~30-52 range reported across sources
- **Products:** BehavioralPulse, Mosaic, Derin, EchoHER
- **Notable:** Launched EchoHER, described as the first AI platform to decode the 'why' behind women's health, at the 2025 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting., Behavioral profiles covering 130+ million US women., Improved clinical trial enrollment prediction by ~30% for high-performing sites.

## Products & services

- **BehavioralPulse** — A proprietary data pipeline that quantifies attitudes, barriers, and external forces affecting health behaviors for millions of individuals.
- **Mosaic** — A platform integrating behavioral, clinical, and social data with provider ecosystems to uncover real-world health behavior drivers at local and individual levels.
- **Derin** — A behavioral-science-powered conversational AI tool that engages individuals at scale to capture the barriers, motivations, and perceptions behind health behaviors with the depth of interviews and the reach of surveys.
- **EchoHER** — An AI-powered platform, launched October 2025, that decodes the 'why' behind women's health decisions across maternal, reproductive, and mental health, drawing on behavioral profiles for 130+ million US women.

## Achievements

- Launched EchoHER, described as the first AI platform to decode the 'why' behind women's health, at the 2025 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.
- Behavioral profiles covering 130+ million US women.
- Improved clinical trial enrollment prediction by ~30% for high-performing sites.
- Increased contraceptive uptake by 298% in a randomized controlled trial via personalized, AI-driven insights.
- Behavioral data informed $2.25B in CDC funding decisions during COVID-19.
- Raised $5M seed round to scale its behavioral intelligence products.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Launched EchoHER, an AI-powered platform for women's health, at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting as a Commitment to Action.
- **2023-03** — Closed a $5M seed round to build out its behavioral intelligence platform.
- **2022** — Founded as a Public Benefit Corporation spun out of behavioral-science work led by Dr. Sema Sgaier.

## Links

- Website: https://www.surgohealth.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surgo-health/

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Last updated: 2026-07-02