LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Felix Brann announced Pharos’ presence at an upcoming ACS quality/safety conference, indicating ongoing customer and conference engagement in healthcare quality circles.
Helping hospitals identify and prevent avoidable harm using AI
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Pharos is a YC-backed hospital quality and patient safety analytics startup that uses AI to automate chart abstraction, clinical registry reporting, RCA support, and real-time quality/risk monitoring for hospitals.
Primary product
AI-powered hospital quality reporting and patient safety analytics platform
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Sub-industry
Healthcare IT / hospital quality analytics
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (2 offices listed)
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise software
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & Head of Research
Head of Partnerships
Work & culture
Mission-driven, clinician/AI-research team that emphasizes patient safety, trust-building with hospital partners, security-conscious development, and collaborative customer-facing execution.
Compensation
Public job-board signals suggest competitive compensation plus equity; one public Product Engineer listing showed about $120k-$170k in San Francisco and framed the role as on-site, while a clinical research role emphasized a meaningful equity stake. No formal company-wide compensation policy is publicly posted.
Benefits
equity
flexible hours for some roles
remote/part-time options for some roles
Product & market
Pricing
B2B enterprise subscription / SaaS
Differentiators
- —AI-generated chart abstraction with source references back to the medical record
- —real-time quality reporting rather than weeks-later manual abstraction
- —focus on avoidable harm, patient safety, and quality/risk workflows
- —integrations with major EHRs and connected systems
- —HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II security posture
Technology
Google Cloud Platform
Firebase
React
TypeScript
Python
microservices
PostHog
HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure
SOC 2 Type II controls
EHR integrations
Customers
hospitals
health systems
hospital quality teams
hospital quality and risk teams
clinical registries / quality programs
Competitors
athenahealth
MedeAnalytics
Symplr
Notable
CareCloud
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Public third-party estimates conflict: roughly $440K ARR (GetLatka, 2025) to about $14.9M estimated revenue (Extruct AI, 2024).
Latest news
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Felix Brann wrote that Pharos made major progress in 2025, while emphasizing the difficult, relationship-driven work required to win hospital customers.
Healthcare IT Today · Nov 2024
Healthcare IT Today republished the seed announcement and reiterated Pharos’ focus on automating clinical quality reporting and improving hospital patient-safety workflows.
TechCrunch · Oct 2024
TechCrunch reported Pharos raised a $5M seed led by Felicis, with participation from General Catalyst, Moxxie, and Y Combinator, and described the company’s AI for hospital quality reporting and patient-safety workflows.
PRNewswire · Oct 2024
The company’s press release says the oversubscribed $5M seed was led by Felicis, with participation from General Catalyst, Moxxie, and Y Combinator, and that the funds would expand engineering and registry coverage.
Jobs and careers at Pharos
3 jobs at Pharos
Clinical Partner Architect
On-site
Partner Operations
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
Product Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
Physician AI Researcher
On-site
Clinical Operations
San Francisco
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time