Sophont
About Sophont
Sophont is a company founded in 2025 that specializes in building open and universal medical AI models that understand pathology, neuroimaging, clinical text, and more. Their mission is to empower clinicians and researchers worldwide by releasing large-scale, transparent multimodal models in partnership with academia, hospitals, and industry. Sophont aims to be the "DeepSeek of medical AI," focusing on open, multimodal AI to transform healthcare.
Team and Innovation
The team is led by Tanishq Mathew Abraham (CEO), a former Research Director at Stability AI and founder of the world's largest online medical AI research community MedARC, and Paul Scotti (CTO), a former Head of NeuroAI at Stability AI and postdoc at Princeton University with extensive experience in computational neuroscience. The company actively publishes groundbreaking research in medical AI, including projects related to fMRI, image reconstruction from brain signals, and vision-language foundation models to enhance healthcare diagnostics and education.
Funding and Collaborations
Sophont has raised a $9.22 million seed round to advance universal multimodal medical foundation models and expand the MedARC community. They have partnerships and investors from notable entities including Kindred Ventures, Mei Ventures, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, and other leaders in AI and healthcare.
