Abridge

AI-powered clinical documentation for healthcare.

abridge.com

HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Healthcare

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 28, 2026

Overview

Abridge AI, Inc. is a private healthcare-AI company founded in 2018. Its purpose-built generative-AI platform turns patient-clinician conversations and surrounding clinical context into auditable clinical intelligence, reducing documentation burden and extending into nursing, revenue-cycle, clinical-decision-support, payer, and life-sciences workflows. Abridge reports more than 300 health-system deployments and over 100 million annual conversations as of June 2026. [Abridge About; Abridge June 2026 release]

Primary product

Abridge’s enterprise clinician-intelligence platform: ambient capture and structured clinical documentation, with pre-visit context, in-visit decision support, post-visit notes/orders/codes, nursing documentation, revenue-cycle/CDI, and evidence-grounded Clinical Decision Support.

Founded

2018

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

Approximately 400–500; one third-party estimate lists 451 employees in 2026.

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Artificial intelligence

Sub-industry

Healthcare AI; ambient clinical documentation and clinician intelligence

Offices

San Francisco, California (HQ/builder hub)

New York City, New York (builder hub)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Business model

Enterprise B2B SaaS sold to health systems and large healthcare organizations

Sales-led, multi-year health-system contracts

Expansion into revenue-cycle, payer, life-sciences, nursing, and clinical-decision-support workflows

Funding

Stage

Series E / late-stage private company; also received a later undisclosed strategic Eli Lilly investment

Total raised

$830M

Latest round

Strategic corporate investment / Corporate Minority - II (Eli Lilly) · Jun 2026

Series E

Jun 2025 · Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

$300M

Series D

Feb 2025 · Elad Gil and IVP

$250M

Series C

Feb 2024 · Lightspeed Venture Partners

$150M

Series B

Oct 2023 · Spark Capital

$30M

Series A-1

Aug 2022 · Wittington Ventures

$12.5M

Seed + Series A (combined disclosed at launch)

Oct 2020 · Union Square Ventures and UPMC

$15M

People & investors

Leadership

Shiv Rao, MD

CEO and Co-Founder

San Oo

Chief Technology Officer

Julia Chou

Chief Operating Officer

Brian Wilson

Chief Commercial Officer

Sagar Sanghvi

Chief Financial Officer

Tim Hwang

General Counsel

Founders

Florian Metze

Co-Founder

Sandeep Konam

Co-Founder

Shiv Rao

Founder and CEO

Zachary Lipton

Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Scientific Officer

Investors

Work & culture

Mission-driven, clinically oriented builder culture combining practicing physicians, AI scientists, PhDs, engineers, and designers. Abridge emphasizes co-location and collaboration for builder teams at its San Francisco and New York hubs, autonomy, continuous improvement, a blameless culture, and values including action, helping others win, and honoring humanity.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

Public job postings commonly show base-salary ranges plus equity; some commercial roles include bonus or commission. Example engineering postings show roughly $157K–$313K base ranges depending on level/location, while senior technical roles commonly list approximately $210K–$325K plus equity. Visa policy is not clearly stated publicly.

Benefits

Comprehensive health plans

Generous HSA contribution

401(k) matching

Family-forming benefits

Lifestyle wallet

Mental-health support

Generous paid time off

Sabbatical leave

Paid parental leave

Personal-device allowance

Pre-tax benefits

Equity compensation

Product & market

Pricing

Enterprise contract / sales-led pricing; no public price list, self-serve tier, or public free trial found.

Differentiators

—Purpose-built clinical Contextual Reasoning Engine rather than generic transcription
—Linked Evidence maps generated summaries to source conversation/ground truth for verification
—Deep EHR workflow integration, especially Epic
—Expansion from physician notes into nursing, coding, revenue cycle, prior authorization, and evidence-based care
—Large-scale health-system deployments and 2025/2026 Best in KLAS recognition
—Clinical founding and leadership expertise combined with AI/scientific teams

Technology

Purpose-built Contextual Reasoning Engine

Automatic speech recognition and clinical language models

Linked Evidence / auditable grounding

Epic integration including Abridge Inside; also Oracle Health and athenahealth

NVIDIA Nemotron and Blackwell infrastructure collaboration

HIPAA-compliant platform with 256-bit encryption and SSO

Python, PyTorch, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Terraform, Kubernetes/GKE, Kafka, Redis, Databricks, Google Cloud, Amazon S3, GitHub Actions

Customers

Sutter Health

Inova

Geisinger

Christus Health

UW Health

AltaMed

SHARP

Akron Children’s

Riverside Health

WVU Health

Yale New Haven Health

UPMC

Duke Health

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Competitors

Microsoft Nuance DAX Copilot

Suki AI

Nabla

Ambience Healthcare

Commure Scribe

CodaMetrix

OpenEvidence

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $40M–$50M based on a third-party company estimate; another database reports $117M for 2025. Treat as low-confidence private-company estimates, not audited revenue.

Estimated monthly visits

158.6K

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Signals & risks

Acquisition

Jul 2026

Abridge acquihired/acquired Altrina, a YC-backed agentic workflow-automation startup; terms were not disclosed. The deal adds browser/computer-use workflow automation talent and technology.

Source

Other

Sep 2025

Business Insider reported strategic tension and execution risk around Abridge’s dependence on Epic’s ecosystem while Epic develops competing AI capabilities. This is a competitive/ecosystem risk, not a reported shutdown or layoff.

Source

Latest news

Abridge acquires agentic AI workflow-automation company Altrina

TechTarget · Jul 2026

Abridge acquired/acquihired Altrina, bringing in browser and computer-use agent expertise for multi-system healthcare workflow automation; terms were undisclosed.

Abridge unveils unified patient-centered clinician intelligence platform

Abridge · Jun 2026

Abridge announced a broader platform spanning pre-visit preparation, in-visit support, documentation, orders, codes, nursing, payment alignment, evidence-based care, and integrations with Epic, Oracle Health, and athenahealth; it also announced NVIDIA collaboration and Northwestern Medicine’s enterprise rollout.

Abridge inks deals with Nvidia and Lilly

STAT · Jun 2026

STAT reported Abridge’s NVIDIA foundation-model collaboration and Lilly strategic investment as the company broadens beyond ambient notes.

Abridge secures Eli Lilly investment and expands payer/research workflows

Fierce Healthcare · Jun 2026

Eli Lilly made an undisclosed strategic investment to support evidence-based care and clinical-trial workflows; Abridge also described expansion into billing, prior authorization, payer, and life-sciences use cases.

Abridge raises $300 million at $5.3 billion valuation

Reuters · Jun 2025

Abridge raised $300M in Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz with Khosla Ventures participating, reaching a reported $5.3B valuation after a $250M raise earlier in 2025.

Jobs and careers at Abridge

43 jobs at Abridge

Engineering Leadership, NY Site Lead

Remote

Builder

NYC Office; New York City, New York, USA

Today

Remote

Full-time