Mission

We spare lives by democratizing access to knowledge extracted from real patients journeys.

The Dream

Eliminate hit-or-miss clinical treatment of patients by enabling instant experimentation and simulation of disease progression and treatment outcomes in a computer environment rather than in a clinical setting.

The How

By developing AI that can help humans. Todays options are either human curation of patient data (inefficient and unscalable), or AI (error-prone, needing the help of humans to tune). We are committed to investing in R&D to build an AI that is clinically smart to be of true assistant to different stakeholders in healthcare.

The Story

Mendel is the brain child of Wael Salloum – a computer scientist, and Karim Galil – a physician.

At their first meeting, Karim expressed that his dream as a physician was that every clinical expert mentioned have a “Jarvis” by their side – an AI assistant that could scan all patient records and help them better personalize care for their patients. To his surprise, Wael mentioned that he had been working on a similar AI solution since 2005 – the rest is history.

Out of the Silicon Valley, the world’s center for innovation, they started Mendel.ai and secured funding from some of the world’s best VC firms to re-imagine the future of drug development and clinical practice.

The Name

Mendel is named after the father of genetics, as a tribute to a priest who mastered the skill of “careful observation” to change the field of medicine forever. At Mendel, we have trained our technology to master this very skill.

Health is a human condition, and any technology that doesn’t acknowledge the humanity of healthcare will fail to make its way into the practice of medicine and research. At Mendel, we aim to bring the humanity of our namesake to our technology.

Our board & Advisors

Karim Galil, MD

CEO, Chairman

Wael Salloum, PhD

CSO, Board Director

Hylton Kalvaria

Chief Commercial Officer

 Sailu Challapalli

Chief Product Officer

Kevin Kooi

Head of Finance

Brian Longo

Board Director

Billy Deitch

Board Director

Kyle Lui

Board Director

Sam Lambros

Advisor

Mark Goldstein

Advisor

Ashkon Zariv

Data Integration Engineer

Parth Patel

AI Research Engineer

Parth Patel

AI Research Engineer

The People

We train engineers to think like physicians and physicians to think like engineers.

100+

Team Members

3

Offices

1M+

Patient records analyzed

Investors

 

Oak HC/FT

Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity firm investing in companies driving transformation in healthcare and fintech, two uniquely complementary and high-growth sectors. With deep domain expertise and strategic resources, Oak HC/FT partners with leading entrepreneurs at every stage, from seed to growth, to build businesses that make a measurable, lasting impact on these industries. Founded in 2014, the firm has $5.3 billion in assets under management and is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with investors in San Francisco and Boston.
 

DCM

DCM is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo with over $4 billion under management. DCM has backed industry leading companies including Careem (Uber), Bill.com, Sansan, Freee, Life360, Musical.ly (TikTok), Sling Media. DCM has also invested in exciting, rising startups such as Lime, FuboTV, Hims, Plenty, SoFi, Kuaishou, Maimai and Pony.ai.
 

IndieBio

IndieBio is the life-sciences arm of SOSV which manages over $700 million with a portfolio of over 900 startups. SOSV created the world's first life sciences accelerator in 2014, and in the past five years has backed 200 life science startups, raising more than $700 million, employing over 2,000 people, with a combined valuation of over $3 billion.
 

BootstrapLabs

Founded in 2008, BootstrapLabs is a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on applied artificial intelligence. We invest in founders that dream big and are solving today's hardest problem by applying artificial intelligence to shape a better future. To learn more visit:  https://bootstraplabs.com/
 

LaunchCapital

LaunchCapital invests in great people who re-imagine what’s possible. We back entrepreneurs at the seed and early stages of development and we have invested in over 200 companies including Spotify, Snapchat, and Runkeeper. As part of the Pritzker/Vlock Family Office, LaunchCapital invests across industries and is headquartered in New Haven.  For more information, visit www.launchcapital.com.