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Ezra expects to offer $500, 10-minute full-body MRIs within three years
“And we're currently at the 13 50 scan, and within two to three years, With a lot more AI we think we're gonna get to a 500 dollar 10 minute full body MRI.”
AI will increase demand for human radiologists over the next decade
“If I am to fast forward five to 10 years, We will need more radiologists than we have now because we will need more medical imaging than we do now.”
Emi Gal: No existing MRI datasets combine healthy and diseased longitudinal data
“There are no data sets out there with a blend of healthy people and diseased people with longitudinal measures over time”
Gal: AI already outperforms humans at detecting cancer in medical imaging
“AI can already, in many cases, do a better job at finding potential cancer in Medical imaging.”
Ezra's AI cuts physician report creation time from 90 to 5 minutes
“Our doctors, we have a team of primary care physicians internally who used to take the radiology report, spend 90 minutes per report to generate an Ezra report, which is on average about seven pages, to describe to the member what each finding means. We built …”
Emi Gal: Cancer cannot currently be detected early in most organs
“Early detection is really what makes the difference. But the problem is you can't find cancer early in most organs in the body.”
Gal: MRI is expensive because scanning takes a long time
“Whilst MRI is great, the problem is it's expensive as a modality because it's really slow”
Gal: Ezra offers the fastest full body MRI scan in the world
“We have a cancer focused scan, which is a 30 minute fastest full body MRI in the world.”
Emi Gal: Most MRI innovation over next decade will be software-driven
“So in an MRI particularly over the next decade, most innovation will come from software.”
Emi Gal: Ezra raised $21M Series B co-led by FirstMark and Healthier Capital
“We announced last week that we raised twenty-one million co-led by Rick at FirstMark and Amir Dan Rubin from Healthier Capital.”
Emi Gal: Ezra's investors include Allianz, Schwarzman family, and Lord David Pryor
“We added Allianz Insurance Group, or the Allianz Life Ventures Fund, which is part of the Allianz Insurance Group. We added the Schwarzman family of Blackstone, and the former head of the NHS in the UK Lord David Pryor.”
Ezra recruited 22 top scientific advisors before launching its AI scanner
“We brought on board 22 scientific advisors Before we even launched, and these were heads of body MRI at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize winner oncologist at Columbia, the chair of oncology at Columbia some other im…”
Emi Gal: Y Combinator's Request for Startups included faster, accurate MRIs
“So YC this year, that was every year they post these kind of 20 ideas that they want people to startup founders to invest in, to spend time on. And one of the ideas this year was MRI and making MRI faster. Making MRI more accurate making, basically doing all o…”