Sophont, a Palo Alto, CA–based medical AI startup developing multimodal medical foundation models, has raised $9.22 million across its pre-seed and seed rounds.
Investors
The round was led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Upfront Ventures, Delphi Ventures, Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind), Lukas Biewald (Weights & Biases), Clément Delangue (Factorial Capital, Hugging Face), and others.
Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments, particularly at the pre-seed and seed stages. Founded in 2014, the firm has backed more than 100 startups, with a combined portfolio market capitalization exceeding $200 billion.
Sophont Use of Funds
The funds will be used to expand the research team, accelerate model development, and launch pilot programs with healthcare institutions, medtech companies, and pharmaceutical firms.
About Sophont
Founded in 2024 by Tanishq Abraham and Paul Scotti, Sophont is building multimodal medical foundation models: large-scale AI systems trained on vast amounts of unlabeled clinical data that can reason across diverse modalities, including pathology slides, brain scans, clinical notes, and lab results. The company collaborates with global medical centers and academic partners and is committed to publishing open-source research in leading venues such as Nature Biomedical Engineering, NeurIPS, and ICML.
Funding Details
Company: Sophont Inc.
Raised: $9.22M
Round: Pre-seed & Seed
Funding Date: September 2025
Lead Investor: Kindred Ventures
Additional Investors: Upfront Ventures, Delphi Ventures, Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind), Lukas Biewald (Weights & Biases), Clément Delangue (Factorial Capital, Hugging Face), and others
Company Website: https://sophontai.com/
Software Category: Healthcare AI / Medical Foundation Models
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