Possible Ventures invests in Oscer

The world-class team at Oscer is building a medical knowledge graph that could change the landscape of general medicine.

When founders Tom and Waleed first set out to build Oscer, they were hoping to solve the problem of medical misdiagnosis - a systemic challenge that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths and costs healthcare providers over $1 trillion each year.

Instead, they quickly identified an opportunity to transform the entire patient-doctor engagement process.

Oscer's first iteration is an online platform that enables medical students to practice their clinical diagnostic skills with virtual patients powered by artificial intelligence. Every student that uses Oscer is helping to build a medical knowledge graph that will later be used in clinical settings around the world.

“You need a huge database of questions and answers and all the different symptoms and conditions that people can have, and an interesting way to build that database is to create a product for students,” Dr. Kelly said.

That medical knowledge graph is being used to build a diagnostic support app. that will guide doctors with suggested questions to ask the patient, and provide real-time, informed second opinions.

But Oscer’s support for patient-doctor engagement will begin long before the diagnosis. The team is building an AI-driven, conversational chat engine that will provide a triage service for patients. The common experience of making general appointments with a doctor, who is blind to the patient’s condition until they walk through the door, is replaced by an intelligent triage system. Patient’s are guided to provide a useful description of their symptoms and the most appropriate appointment - time, duration, location - is scheduled. Patients are informed with pre-visit requirements, and doctors receive essential background data prior to the consult. Tom expects the triage conversation will be able to solve 70% of the consultation before it goes to the GP, leaving the doctor to focus their questions for the most important last-mile of the assessment.

Oscer is training a new generation of doctors and building an AI-powered triage platform that will empower doctors, eliminate trillions of wasted dollars and impact the health of millions of people.

The founding team behind Oscer has what it takes to make this vision a reality. CEO, Dr Thomas Kelly, became a micro-celebrity on YouTube engaging students with pre-med education videos before working as a doctor across surgical, critical care focus, emergency, ICU, and anaesthetics. He's supported by an accomplished executive team with deep NLP and AI engineering skills (CTO - Yu Liu) and commercial strategy experience (CFO - Waleed Mussa).

We're excited to support Tom and the entire Oscer team by joining their $5 million funding round alongside Blackbird Ventures, January Capital, Archangel Ventures and angel investors Brendan Hill and Jeff Bargmann.

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