Well being AI startup Cercle debuts with backing from Sheryl Sandberg

A brand new well being tech startup referred to as Cercle launched Wednesday and introduced main world companions and buyers, together with Meta‘s former COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Cercle makes use of synthetic intelligence to try to advance ladies’s well being, significantly inside fertility care. The corporate’s platform organizes unstructured medical knowledge, reminiscent of medical information and check outcomes, right into a standardized format for fertility docs and researchers, within the hopes it would assist clinicians develop extra personalised remedy plans and speed up new discoveries in prescription drugs.

For example, if a affected person needs to freeze her eggs, her physician can use Cercle’s platform to take a look at knowledge from related sufferers who’ve additionally had their eggs frozen. The knowledge is de-identified and nameless, in accordance with Cercle, however the doctor can see what sort of therapies helped or did not, then use that data to develop a extra personalised plan of motion.

“That is the founding mission behind Cercle, to personalize and contextualize biomedical and genomics data so ladies could make higher, extra knowledgeable well being selections,” Cercle CEO and co-founder Juan Carlos Riveiro mentioned in a launch Wednesday.

Cercle’s lead buyers embody Sandberg and her husband Tom Bernthal by means of their new enterprise fund, Sandberg Bernthal Enterprise Companions, Cercle introduced. Sandberg left her function as COO of Meta in June of 2022, and her fund will probably be “investing, supporting and scaling alongside nice entrepreneurs,” in accordance with its LinkedIn web page.

Cercle can also be partnering with the genetics firm Eurofins Genoma, in addition to US Fertility, the nation’s largest fertility community that helps greater than 100 clinics.

Cercle mentioned it would initially concentrate on fertility care however plans to increase to different areas inside ladies’s well being.