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Healthcare AI Companies in 2026

Healthcare AI companies build artificial-intelligence products used directly in clinical care, care delivery and medical research. The category includes ambient clinical documentation (AI scribes), clinical decision support and evidence search for clinicians, diagnostic and medical-imaging AI, patient-facing AI agents, and AI-driven drug discovery. It is distinct from healthcare data and market-intelligence platforms, which analyze claims, provider and pricing data for commercial teams.

  1. OpenEvidence
  2. Abridge
  3. Tempus AI
  4. Isomorphic Labs
  5. Hippocratic AI
  6. Ambience Healthcare
  7. Insilico Medicine
  8. Aidoc
  9. Xaira Therapeutics
  10. Recursion

Healthcare AI Companies to know

Companies were chosen for notability as of October 2026. The measures were publicly reported funding and valuation, public-market listing, clinical adoption (health-system deployments and physician usage) and press coverage. Each company had to be active and build clinical or care-delivery products: documentation, decision support, diagnostics or imaging, patient-facing agents, or drug discovery. Healthcare data and commercial-intelligence vendors were left out because they belong in the Healthcare Intelligence directory. The list spans several sub-segments (ambient documentation, clinician evidence search, imaging AI, patient-facing agents, precision diagnostics and AI drug discovery) so that no single niche dominates.

  1. OpenEvidence logo

    OpenEvidence

    AI medical evidence search and clinical reference platform for clinicians

    OpenEvidence builds an AI search engine over peer-reviewed medical literature that verified U.S. clinicians use for point-of-care questions. Besides the core search product, it offers DeepConsult for multi-study clinical reasoning, plus Visits for documentation and Voice Mode. It is free for verified physicians and funded by advertising, and it reported about 760,000 registered U.S. physicians as of December 2025.

    Headquarters
    Miami, Florida, USA
  2. Abridge logo

    Abridge

    Ambient AI clinical documentation integrated into health-system EHR workflows

    Abridge makes ambient AI software that turns patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes and links each note to timestamps in the source audio. It sells to large health systems, offering products for outpatient, inpatient, nursing and revenue-cycle documentation, and integrates with Epic. Disclosed customers include Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and Duke Health.

    Headquarters
    San Francisco, California, USA
  3. Tempus AI logo

    Tempus AI

    Publicly listed precision-medicine company combining genomic testing with AI

    Tempus AI provides genomic sequencing and diagnostic tests together with AI-enabled analytics, mainly in oncology and also in cardiology, radiology and depression. It combines clinical and molecular data with AI tools that support physicians' treatment decisions and pharmaceutical research. The company is listed on Nasdaq.

    Headquarters
    Chicago, Illinois, USA
  4. Isomorphic Labs logo

    Isomorphic Labs

    Alphabet-backed AI drug design company spun out of Google DeepMind

    Isomorphic Labs builds AI models for drug design and runs its own internal therapeutic pipeline, focused mainly on oncology and immunology. It was spun out of DeepMind, co-developed AlphaFold 3 and announced its IsoDDE drug design engine in 2026. The company reported that it expected to begin its first clinical trials by the end of 2026.

    Headquarters
    London, UK
  5. Hippocratic AI logo

    Hippocratic AI

    Patient-facing generative AI agents for non-diagnostic clinical tasks

    Hippocratic AI builds patient-facing generative AI agents for non-diagnostic clinical tasks such as pre-operative calls, discharge follow-up, chronic care management and trial enrollment. The agents run on the company's Polaris safety architecture. As of November 2025, the company reported partnerships with more than 50 health systems, payers and pharmaceutical clients in six countries.

    Headquarters
    Palo Alto, California, USA
  6. Ambience Healthcare logo

    Ambience Healthcare

    Ambient AI documentation and coding platform for health systems

    Ambience Healthcare builds an ambient AI platform that drafts clinical documentation from patient encounters and suggests codes (HCC, E/M, ICD-10 and CPT) in real time. It supports more than 100 specialties and has been deployed at health systems including Cleveland Clinic, UCSF Health and Houston Methodist.

    Headquarters
    San Francisco, California, USA
  7. Insilico Medicine logo

    Insilico Medicine

    Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company with a clinical-stage pipeline

    Insilico Medicine uses generative AI and deep learning to identify drug targets and design molecules, both for its own pipeline and for partners through its Pharma.AI software. Its lead candidate, rentosertib (INS018_055), was in a phase 3 trial as of 2026. In March 2026 it signed an AI drug discovery agreement with Eli Lilly worth up to $2.75B, including $115M upfront.

    Headquarters
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  8. Aidoc logo

    Aidoc

    Always-on AI for triaging acute findings in medical imaging

    Aidoc builds AI that runs in the background on medical imaging studies and flags acute findings, such as intracranial hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism, cervical spine fractures and large-vessel occlusion strokes, for faster triage. Its algorithms are deployed in more than 900 hospitals and imaging centers, including Yale New Haven Hospital and Cedars-Sinai.

    Headquarters
    Tel Aviv, Israel
  9. Xaira Therapeutics logo

    Xaira Therapeutics

    AI drug discovery and development company with an integrated lab platform

    Xaira Therapeutics builds AI models for target identification, molecule design and patient identification, and combines them with agentic AI and lab robotics to develop its own therapeutics. Its platform includes the X-Cell, X-Design and X-Patient models. The company launched publicly in April 2024 with about $1B in capital and in 2026 revealed an antibody platform and its first pipeline candidates.

    Headquarters
    South San Francisco, California, USA
  10. Recursion logo

    Recursion

    Clinical-stage biotech running an AI and automated-lab drug discovery platform

    Recursion runs Recursion OS, a drug discovery platform that combines large-scale automated biology experiments, generative chemistry and translational tools. The company says it runs up to 2 million experiments a week and holds a proprietary dataset of more than 50 petabytes. Its clinical pipeline covers oncology and rare diseases, and it has partnerships with Roche, Sanofi and Bayer.

    Headquarters
    Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Healthcare AI Companies at a glance

Healthcare AI Companies: headquarters and focus
CompanyHeadquartersFocus
OpenEvidenceMiami, Florida, USAclinical decision support, medical search
AbridgeSan Francisco, California, USAambient documentation, AI scribe
Tempus AIChicago, Illinois, USAprecision medicine, diagnostics
Isomorphic LabsLondon, UKdrug discovery, AI drug design
Hippocratic AIPalo Alto, California, USApatient-facing AI, healthcare agents
Ambience HealthcareSan Francisco, California, USAambient documentation, medical coding
Insilico MedicineCambridge, Massachusetts, USAdrug discovery, generative chemistry
AidocTel Aviv, Israelmedical imaging, radiology AI
Xaira TherapeuticsSouth San Francisco, California, USAdrug discovery, protein design
RecursionSalt Lake City, Utah, USAdrug discovery, phenomics

Frequently asked questions

Which companies are the most notable healthcare AI companies in 2026?

Notable healthcare AI companies as of October 2026 include OpenEvidence, Abridge, Tempus AI, Isomorphic Labs, Hippocratic AI, Ambience Healthcare, Insilico Medicine, Aidoc, Xaira Therapeutics and Recursion. They were chosen for funding, public listings, clinical adoption and press coverage as of October 2026.

Which healthcare AI companies build ambient clinical documentation?

Abridge and Ambience Healthcare both build ambient AI that drafts clinical notes from patient-clinician conversations. Abridge raised a $316M Series E extension in April 2026, after an a16z-led Series E in June 2025 at a $5.3B valuation. Ambience raised a $243M Series C in July 2025, and its product also suggests medical codes in real time.

What is the largest recent funding round in healthcare AI?

Among notable healthcare AI companies as of October 2026, Isomorphic Labs raised the largest round: a $2.1B Series B in May 2026, led by Thrive Capital. OpenEvidence raised a $250M Series D at a $12B valuation in January 2026, and Aidoc raised a $150M Series E in April 2026.

Which healthcare AI companies are publicly traded?

Tempus AI trades on Nasdaq under TEM (IPO June 2024), and Recursion trades on Nasdaq under RXRX (IPO April 2021). Insilico Medicine listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (3696) in late 2025.

How do Healthcare AI companies differ from Healthcare Intelligence companies?

Healthcare AI companies build clinical or care-delivery products, such as AI scribes, diagnostic imaging AI, patient-facing agents and drug discovery. Healthcare Intelligence companies analyze provider, claims, referral and pricing data for commercial teams at pharma, medtech, payer and provider organizations.

Which companies apply AI to drug discovery?

Four companies among notable providers apply AI to drug discovery. Isomorphic Labs was spun out of DeepMind and makes the IsoDDE design engine. Insilico Medicine's lead candidate, rentosertib, is in phase 3. Xaira Therapeutics builds the X-Cell, X-Design and X-Patient models. Recursion runs the Recursion OS platform.

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About this directory: OpenCurious curates this list for researchers, founders, operators and buyers. Company descriptions and headquarters are based on publicly reported information as of and change often; figures a company reports about itself are its own claims. This is an editorial selection, not a paid ranking: no company paid to be listed, and companies appear in no particular order. Company names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify each company. See our editorial policy. To suggest a company or a correction, email hello@opencurious.com.

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