Cercle, an AI-based company that unlocks women’s healthcare data at scale into insights for optimal patient and business outcomes, announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding. This funding was led by Outsiders Fund (an early-stage VC firm). And additional investments were made by FemHealth Ventures, CGHealth Ventures, and Rogue Women’s Fund. They join existing investors Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal’s SBVP fund, and several individual angel investors.
Healthcare is flooded with data but 80% of this data is unstructured and extracting insights from that data is expensive and time consuming. And Cercle’s platform – which is the Cercle Biomedical Graph – ingests and transforms de-identified healthcare data into real-time and high-quality insights that women’s healthcare providers use to run more efficient businesses and provide more personalized care. It does so at an unprecedented speed and scale without AI hallucinations.
Cercle will use the seed funding to widen its application beyond the fertility market, expand its global footprint, and fuel its engineering and product development efforts, including advancement of the company’s LLM offerings. And Cercle co-founder and CEO Juan Carlos Riveiro leads the company and all technical efforts.
As an experienced technologist and entrepreneur in AI and machine learning, he is transforming the engineering work to connect LLMs to high quality women’s healthcare data. And this AI advancement will result in secure, accurate and real-time answers to questions asked by women’s healthcare stakeholders.
Cercle aims to widen its customer base across the women’s healthcare ecosystem, reaching providers, payers, and pharma who work on reproductive health, menopause, women’s oncology, and other rare diseases that disproportionately impact women.
Since the introduction in November 2023, the Cercle Biomedical Graph has been used by US Fertility, Boston IVF, and Eurofins Genoma, Cercle’s European-based distributor, among others, to drive efficiency for clinics and inform personalized treatments for fertility patients. And these early partnerships have resulted in a thorough and wide-ranging knowledge base of women’s health data that have improved the efficiency and efficacy of medical care – from providing more accurate, realistic timelines and procedural options to setting reasonable, scientifically validated expectations with the patient.
Cercle’s Biomedical Graph is HIPAA and GDPR compliant, ensuring the highest degrees of data privacy and security. Working as a mediary between patient data records and LLMs, the Cercle Biomedical Graph removes all personal information and anonymizes data points and insights. And it has captured and analyzed more than one billion data points from anonymized patients globally. The Cercle Biomedical Graph has not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Plus, it does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease and is not classified as a medical device.
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“Women’s healthcare is under researched, underfunded, and underserved. Our mission at Cercle is simple and clear: to leverage the power of AI to generate insights from women’s health data in order to drive efficiencies for providers, develop drugs faster, and improve care for patients. We are thrilled that this group of investors, led by Outsiders Fund, shares our passion for women’s healthcare and understands that transforming data into insights is a critical step to improve both business and clinical outcomes in women’s healthcare.”
-Ashley Finch, Cercle’s COO
“Cercle is a truly exciting innovator at the intersection of AI and women’s healthcare. Cercle’s leadership team possesses a rare set of technical and operational skills that uniquely positions them to reimagine the uses of AI in and the data infrastructure of women’s healthcare. The company’s best-in-class infrastructure, LLM interface, and ML / AI models provide serious leverage to clinicians and healthcare operators alike. We are proud to lead this seed round and excited about what the future holds for Cercle.”
-George Easley, Principal at Outsiders Fund
“Cercle’s unique AI platform has meaningfully enhanced both our business operations and clinical workflows. Analyzing raw data for actionable insights is labor-intensive and costly. Cercle’s AI platform enables us to extract these insights more efficiently and at scale, leading to both better outcomes for our business and a better experience for our patients.”
-Dr. Eduardo Hariton, VP of Strategic Initiatives at US Fertility and Managing Director of the Innovation Fund
