Minute Insight: Viz.ai Raises $100M To Expand AI-Based Platform To Detect Diseases, Coordinate Care In Hospitals

 
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The latest funding round, led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners, values the company at $1.2bn.

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Viz.ai Inc., which developed a care coordination platform that uses AI-based software to scan images for disease detection and then quickly alerts multidisciplinary teams via the Viz app, announced on 7 April it raised $100m in a series D financing round. The financing round was led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners. The investments place the company among roughly a dozen AI-enabled health care technology start-ups globally that have achieved unicorn status.

The company, which is located in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Israel, said it will use the new funding to...

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