
From drug-discovery robots to digital pathology, the Spokane founder keeps returning to the same stubborn problem: brilliant science trapped inside slow systems.

A medical student turned MIT researcher found his company in a place almost everyone visits. Videa grew by making the machine useful to clinicians, legible to patients, and repeatable across thousands of practices.
Julián Ríos Cantú is the co-founder and CEO of Eden, the leading cloud-native radiology operating system in Latin America. Motivated by his mother's battle with breast cancer, he began building health technology at age 16, went on to become the youngest-ever winner of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards at 18, earned a Thiel Fellowship, and went through Y Combinator in 2018. Today, Eden processes over 13 million diagnostic studies annually across 18 countries for more than 2,200 medical institutions, backed by Sierra Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Kaszek, and notable angel investors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, and Tony Robbins.