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The Company That Refuses to Let a Surgeon Fly Blind Through Your Nervous System
For twenty years, one Las Vegas-founded company has been the second set of eyes in thousands of operating rooms - watching the nerves surgeons can't see and sounding the alarm before a slip becomes a lifelong deficit.
Oath Surgical
Oath Surgical is a Portland, Oregon-based healthtech company building a full-stack, AI-native system for outpatient surgery. It owns and operates its own ambulatory surgical centers while developing OathOS, an ambient clinical intelligence platform that analyzes surgical video, audio and operational data in real time to reduce administrative burden and support value-based, surgeon-led care. Founded by physician and former Intuitive Ventures head Oliver Keown, the company has raised roughly $35M and partners with NVIDIA, McKesson Ventures and FPV Ventures.
Theator
Theator is a surgical intelligence company that turns raw operating-room video into structured, actionable data. Using proprietary computer vision and AI, its platform analyzes minimally invasive procedures in real time - identifying surgical steps, flagging safety milestones, and generating operative reports by the time the surgeon leaves the OR. Founded by Dr. Tamir Wolf and Dotan Asselmann, Theator aims to reduce variability in surgical care and is deployed at academic medical centers including Mayo Clinic and UHealth Miami, having analyzed more than 600,000 procedures.
Shyld AI
Shyld AI builds autonomous, edge-native devices that watch hospital rooms with computer vision and sensors, then fire targeted UV-C light to kill pathogens the moment a room is empty or a high-touch surface is used. Founded by brothers Mohammad and Morteza Noshad, the Silicon Valley company sells an 'Active AI' platform to U.S. health systems that has shown a 93% reduction in environmental contamination in a peer-reviewed Stanford study.
Apella
Apella is a San Francisco-based healthcare AI company using ambient video, computer vision and machine learning to run hospitals' operating rooms better - automatically detecting up to 14 surgical case events, forecasting case durations, and writing structured data back to the EHR so surgical teams can serve more patients without staying late.
Caresyntax
Caresyntax is an AI-powered surgical intelligence platform that turns the operating room into a connected data environment. Its vendor-neutral software captures video, device, and EMR data across more than 4,000 ORs and supports over two million procedures a year, helping hospitals improve outcomes, reduce costs, and make surgery measurably safer.