Vera Health, the search engine for doctors, wants to expand into Europe after fundraising of 29 million euros

Vera Health accelerates its expansion in Europe. The American start-up, founded in 2024 by Taieb Bennani and Maxime Allouch (graduates of MIT and HEC Paris), announces a fundraising led by Threshold Ventures, Optum Ventures, Mantis VC and SV Angel, while historical investors Y Combinator and Gradient (Google's AI fund) are back in the pot. In total, the young company has now raised more than 29 million euros.

The young company wants to generalize access to scientific monitoring for caregivers, faced with the massive volume of publications. According to a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, it takes on average seventeen years for new data to enter current practice, while an article appears approximately every twenty seconds. Vera's response takes the form of a search engine powered by more than 60 million publications. Unlike general conversational assistants, the tool first identifies the sources before writing its response, classifies each study according to its level of relevance and color-codes the solidity of the assertions.

The database is developed in-house. Around 40% of publications are retrieved through open access, the rest coming from partnerships with scientific publishers such as the American College of Emergency Physicians. “The search engine is the key to everything we do,” summarizes co-founder Taieb Bennani. Behind the scenes, the start-up puts several AI models in competition, some specialized in research, others in prioritization. Vera also allows establishments to integrate their own protocols. Hospitals (like Yale or Columbia) and institutions (like the American Heart Association) are rewriting their recommendations. Local specificities also come into account since a French doctor will thus see a directive from the High Authority of Health (HAS) prevail over a foreign recommendation.

Machine-translated from French