Alara Imaging is a San Francisco healthcare technology company building a private compute platform for radiology. Its flagship product, the Alara Medical Imaging Gateway, is edge-orchestration software that sits inside a hospital and moves imaging data securely and bidirectionally between facilities and the cloud. Founded out of UCSF research, Alara serves as a CMS measure steward, giving health systems a HITRUST-certified, HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant way to calculate and report new radiology quality measures - including a CMS-endorsed measure to standardize CT radiation doses and reduce avoidable cancer risk.
David Stoffel is the Chief Business Officer of RapidAI, the clinical-AI company whose stroke-imaging algorithms helped rewrite the rules of how strokes get treated. A medical doctor who chose boardrooms over bedsides, he has spent more than two decades turning ambitious medical technologies into standards of care - from the da Vinci surgical robot at Intuitive Surgical to mobile cardiac telemetry at iRhythm and point-of-care EEG at Ceribell. At RapidAI he runs the commercial engine: marketing, clinical affairs, education, customer success, corporate development, and finance.
Nate Mazonson is the co-founder and CEO of Alara Imaging (Alara Gateway), a San Francisco health-tech startup building a secure gateway-as-a-service that moves radiology data between hospitals and the cloud in real time. A Dartmouth-trained environmental engineer turned Stanford MBA, he spent five years in venture capital at Cambridge Associates and Kleiner Perkins before co-founding the vertical-farming company Plenty in 2015 and then Alara in 2019. His through-line: take antiquated, high-stakes infrastructure - first food, now medical imaging - and rebuild it as modern, machine-learning-ready software.
PaxeraHealth is a Boston-area medical imaging company that builds AI-driven enterprise imaging software - PACS, vendor-neutral archives, image sharing, and a no-code platform that lets hospitals author their own imaging algorithms. Founded in 2009 by Dr. Mohamed Shoura, the company has installed thousands of PACS systems across 50+ countries and counts the American College of Radiology and AdventHealth among its clients.
Connie Lehman is a radiologist who spent three decades reading mammograms and decided the picture could tell a different story. As founder and CEO of Boston-based Clairity, she built the first FDA-authorized AI platform that reads a routine screening mammogram and estimates a woman's five-year risk of developing breast cancer, spotting tissue patterns invisible to the human eye. A Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School with more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, she left a celebrated academic career to commercialize the idea that imaging should predict cancer, not just find it. TIME named her to its 2026 TIME100 Health list and Forbes to its 50 Over 50: Innovation list.
Mohamed Shoura is the founder and CEO of PaxeraHealth, a Boston-based medical imaging AI company he launched in 2009 after spending 12 years inside Siemens and Toshiba Medical Systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Medical Imaging, has served as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and pursued a business degree at Harvard. Under his leadership PaxeraHealth has reached more than 2,500 PACS installations across 50+ countries, won Best in KLAS for Global PACS three years running, and closed a Series A round in late 2022. He also founded CarePassport, an award-winning patient engagement platform.
Eden is a Latin American health-tech company building the leading cloud PACS/RIS platform for radiology - storage, viewing, AI-assisted reading, and digital delivery of medical imaging used by hospitals and clinics across 17 countries. Founded by Julián Ríos Cantú, who first became known as the teenager behind the EVA breast-cancer-detecting bra, Eden processes millions of medical images a day and has raised roughly $44M total, including a $10M round led by Sierra Ventures and a Series A in October 2025.
Doktor Gurson is the Co-founder and CEO of Rad AI, the leading generative AI platform for radiology, powering over 50% of U.S. health systems. A serial entrepreneur and Y Combinator alum, he started his first internet company at age 15 - a domain registrar that became the world's 32nd ICANN-accredited registrar. At Rad AI, which he co-founded in 2018 with radiologist Jeff Chang, he has built a $525M company that automates radiology report generation, reducing radiologist burnout while improving diagnostic accuracy across more than 200 hospitals and health systems.
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.
Karim Karti is the CEO of RapidAI, a deep clinical AI company whose platform is used in 2,500+ hospitals across 100+ countries for stroke, vascular, and radiology workflows. He brings 22+ years from GE Healthcare — including running its $9B imaging division — and a stint as COO of iRhythm, where he doubled revenues to $210M in 18 months. Trained as an engineer in France and a former P&G brand manager, he now leads one of the most clinically validated AI platforms in medicine, backed by 700+ published studies and 10+ million scans processed.
Prenuvo runs a chain of clinics built around a 60-minute whole-body MRI designed to spot cancer, aneurysms and hundreds of other conditions before symptoms show up. Founded by Andrew Lacy and radiologist Raj Attariwala, the company is trying to drag American healthcare from reactive to preventive, one scan at a time.
Rad AI builds generative-AI software that drafts the most tedious parts of a radiology report - the impressions, the follow-ups, the boilerplate - so radiologists can spend more time on the images and less on the keyboard. Founded in 2018 by a radiologist (Jeff Chang) and a serial founder (Doktor Gurson), the company now works with roughly nine of the ten largest radiology groups in the U.S. and touches close to half of the country's medical imaging.
RapidAI builds FDA-cleared clinical AI software that reads CT, CTA, CT perfusion and MRI scans to flag stroke, aneurysms and pulmonary embolisms in minutes - giving hospital teams a faster path to treatment. The platform began life as the Stanford spin-out iSchemaView and now runs in more than 2,000 hospitals across 100+ countries.
Sirona Medical is a San Francisco cloud-native radiology software company building Unify, a single platform that fuses PACS, viewer, worklist, reporting and AI into one browser-based workflow for radiologists.
Subtle Medical is a Stanford-born AI company that makes regular MRI and PET scanners faster and sharper through deep learning denoising and image enhancement software. Its FDA-cleared, vendor-neutral products - including SubtlePET, SubtleMR/SubtleHD, SubtleSYNTH and AiMIFY - help radiology departments shorten scan times, reduce contrast dose, and increase patient throughput without buying new hardware.
VELMENI is a Sunnyvale-based dental AI platform that uses computer vision and deep learning to analyze 2D and 3D dental radiographs in real time. Its FDA-cleared flagship product, VELMENI for DENTISTS, is the first dental AI approved to detect pathologies in panoramic X-rays — catching caries, bone loss, and other findings that experienced clinicians miss roughly one-third of the time. Beyond diagnostics, the platform automates insurance claims, enables voice-assisted periodontal charting, interprets CBCT scans, and delivers VR-based patient education, all from a single integrated workflow. Founded in 2020 by CEO Mini Suri and Chief Dental Officer Dr. Arvin Oberai, the company has been beta-tested by over 1,300 dentists across 500+ practices in 50+ countries.
Dr. Eduardo Pontes Reis, MD is Vice President of Strategy in the Office of the CEO at Hippocratic AI, a Palo Alto-based generative AI healthcare company with $439M in total funding. A neuroradiologist and AI researcher, he bridges clinical medicine and artificial intelligence through leadership roles at Stanford's Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil, where he initiated the Health Story medical timeline platform and led AI development for diseases including tuberculosis, COVID-19, melanoma, and head CT analysis. He co-authored the BRAX Brazilian Chest X-ray Dataset published in Nature Scientific Data, built open-source tools for integrating AI plugins into LLMs (plugnplai, 228+ GitHub stars), and served as Founding Radiologist at Cognita Imaging — a Stanford AIMI spinoff acquired by Radiology Partners for $80M — before joining Hippocratic AI in early 2026.
Enhao Gong is the CEO and co-founder of Subtle Medical, a Stanford-born AI healthcare company that has earned 9 FDA clearances for deep learning-powered medical imaging products. A PhD graduate from Stanford in Electrical Engineering, Gong co-founded Subtle Medical in 2017 alongside Stanford neuroradiologist Dr. Greg Zaharchuk, and has grown the company to serve 1,000+ scanner installations globally, touching 2.5 million patients annually. Before Subtle Medical, he co-founded Polarr, an AI photo-editing startup used by tens of millions. He has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 (China/APAC, 2018), Fortune 40 Under 40, and Radiology Business 40 Under 40 (2024), and led Subtle Medical to TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies list in 2025.
Mini Suri is the Co-Founder and CEO of VELMENI, a Silicon Valley-based FDA-cleared dental AI company that analyzes 2D and 3D dental X-rays to detect pathologies that even experienced dentists miss. Drawing on 20+ years at Citi, a stint building intelligent automation at Uber, and an MBA from MIT Sloan, she pivoted to healthtech after a personal brush with the cost of missed diagnoses. Under her leadership, VELMENI has grown to serve 500+ dental offices across 50+ countries with AI-powered tools for panoramic, bitewing, periapical, and CBCT imaging - aiming to bring affordable, high-quality dental diagnostics to one billion patients worldwide.