Telepatia.
“You can always understand the son by the story of his father. The story of the father is embedded in the son.” - Coppola.
My father’s nickname was Telepatia.
His friends said his photographic memory bordered on telepathy: he could fall asleep in class and still know the answer to every question. He was a doctor. So is my sister. So was my grandfather. So is my godmother. Four of the five people closest to me are doctors.
When I was about 7 years old, I read that the brain stops developing at age 25. I always wanted to be 25, convinced it was the year I would finally be smarter than my father. When I finally turned 25, he passed away. He was smarter than me.
Days later, ChatGPT launched. My first thought was: an AI Doctor could have saved my father as a patient, and he would have loved it as a doctor. He died at 58, of a preventable death.
Is a world with more doctors and nurses a better or a worse world?
I believe it is objectively better.
Less than a year in. 100 years to go.
Less than a year after moving from Stanford to São Paulo:
Telepatia's AI Doctor is live in more than 25 public and private health institutions home to 100,000+ doctors and nurses across Latin America, including Mater Dei 🇧🇷, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota 🇨🇴 and many more 🇲🇽🇨🇱🇦🇷
Telepatia catches and helps prevent 1 in 3 medical errors before they reach the patient. As Tom, my doctor co-founder, says “medical errors are not the fault of any single physician, they’re the fault of a broken system”.
SF, Boston, NY, Houston, London, Berlin, Madrid. Our team, 83% engineers and doctors, repatriated to Latin America to spend the prime years of their careers building an AI Doctor.
We have raised $42 million, including a $33 million Series A led by a16z, with participation from Shyam Sankar (Palantir), David Vélez (Nubank), and Simón Borrero (Rappi). Existing investors A-Star, Abstract, Canary, Picus, and SV Angel all doubled down.
We’re building an AI Doctor and our goal is to bring Latin America its first Nobel Prize in Medicine since 1984.
My father had a wall covered with portraits of Nobel laureates he admired: Allvar Gullstrand, an ophthalmologist like him, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Feynman. Someone once asked me what winning a Nobel Prize would feel like. I said: earning a place on that wall.
- Nico
P.S. Here he is, falling asleep and knowing the answers.
Enormes! Hats off