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Ataraxis

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ataraxis.ai
HQ: New York, NY, USA
Healthcare

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Ataraxis AI is a New York-based AI precision-medicine company spun out of NYU that builds multimodal oncology tools to predict cancer recurrence and treatment benefit. Its flagship product is Ataraxis Breast, a breast-cancer prognostic/predictive suite built on the Kestrel/Falcon pathology foundation-model stack. I did not surface a public GitHub or X account in the sources reviewed.

Primary product

Ataraxis Breast (including RISK, CTX, and NEO modules)

Founded

2023

Headquarters

New York, New York, United States

Team size

30-40

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Artificial Intelligence

Sub-industry

Precision medicine / oncology diagnostics

Offices

169 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, United States (HQ)
Distributed workforce across the United States, Poland, and Belgium

Business model

B2B clinical diagnostics
research collaborations / translational AI

Funding

Stage

Series A

Total raised

$24.4M

Latest round

Series A · Mar 2025

Latest amount

$20.4M

Series A

Mar 2025 · AIX Ventures

$20.4M

Seed Round

Oct 2024 · Giant Ventures and Obvious Ventures

$4M

Seed

Oct 2024 · Giant Ventures

$4M

People & investors

Leadership

Jan Witowski

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Krzysztof Geras

Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder

Wendy Hirata

Chief of Staff

Investors

AIX Ventures
Bertelsmann Investments
Floating Point
Founders Fund
Giant Ventures
Mario Schlosser
Obvious Ventures
Ryan Fukushima
Thiel Bio

Work & culture

Research-heavy and physician-scientist-led, with a flat organizational structure that emphasizes initiative and results; the team blends scientists, engineers, and clinicians.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public job postings show a Software Engineer role at $100K-$180K plus equity; other commercial roles mention base salary plus variable commission, equity, and benefits.

Benefits

Health insurance
401(k)
Generous parental leave
Generous PTO
Paid sick days
Free snacks and drinks
Remote work program

Product & market

Differentiators

  • —AI-native prognostic and predictive testing rather than a purely genomic assay
  • —Multimodal use of pathology slides plus clinical data
  • —Foundation models trained on hundreds of millions of pathology images
  • —Fast turnaround time (about 1 hour to less than 24 hours, depending on the page/source)
  • —No extra tissue exhaustion or additional histology prep required
  • —Causal inference layer (Tau) for individualized treatment-benefit estimation
  • —Extends across multiple breast-cancer subtypes

Technology

Python
PyTorch
Hugging Face
OpenAI
Google Cloud Platform
Docker
Kubernetes
React
TypeScript
Flask
PostgreSQL
SQLAlchemy
Vercel
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Playwright
Jupyter
Salesforce
HubSpot
Segment

Customers

Oncologists
Breast cancer centers
Health systems
NCI-designated cancer centers
Community clinics

Competitors

Oncotype DX
PAIGE
Ibex
Onc.ai
Tempus
Natera
Exact Sciences

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

approximately $2.8M annually

Estimated monthly visits

7.8K

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

support@ataraxis.ai+1 (646) 832-2265

Latest news

Multi-modal AI for comprehensive breast cancer prognostication

Nature Communications / LinkedIn · Jul 2026

Ataraxis said Nature Communications published a positive clinical validation study of Ataraxis Breast; the company highlighted results across 8,161 patients and 15 cohorts.

Ataraxis ASCO 2026 Presentation Schedule

Ataraxis AI · May 2026

Ataraxis said it would present new predictive data at ASCO 2026, including its first clinical validation in a Phase III randomized controlled trial and prospective-trial results for Ataraxis Breast.

Bigger and Better: What Falcon Shows Us About Scaling Pathology Foundation Models

Ataraxis AI · Apr 2026

A technical blog post explaining Falcon, Ataraxis’ 1.1B-parameter pathology foundation model trained on 2B patches from 250,000+ whole-slide images, and its improved performance over Kestrel.

Ataraxis AI Launches Ataraxis Breast NEO, a New AI Test Predicting Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Breast Cancer

Business Wire · Apr 2026

Launch announcement for Ataraxis Breast NEO, which estimates likelihood of pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant therapy in early-stage breast cancer.

Ataraxis AI Launches Ataraxis Breast NEO, a New AI Test Predicting Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Breast Cancer

Ataraxis AI · Apr 2026

Ataraxis launched Breast NEO to estimate pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant therapy in early-stage breast cancer.

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Jobs and careers at Ataraxis

12 jobs at Ataraxis

Client Success Specialist

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Head of Business Development

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Scientific Engagement

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Member of Technical Staff, Bayesian Statistics

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Member of Technical Staff, Causality

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Member of Technical Staff, Survival Analysis

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Member of Technical Staff, Principal Biostatistician

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Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer

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Member of Technical Staff, Computational Pathology

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Member of Technical Staff, Foundation Models

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Member of Technical Staff, Translational Science

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General Application

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