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The ambient AI that listens to doctor-patient conversations and writes the notes — trusted by 150+ health systems
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, United States | Founded: 2018 | Employees: ~300 (2026, est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC ($5.3B valuation) | Website: https://www.abridge.com
Abridge was founded in 2018 in Pittsburgh by Dr. Shiv Rao (CEO, a practicing cardiologist who experienced charting burnout firsthand) and Zachary Lipton (a Carnegie Mellon ML professor). Their insight was personal and clinical: the best AI for healthcare would sit at the 'point of conversation' — listening to what doctors and patients actually say, and turning it into the documentation, orders, and follow-ups clinicians need.\n\nThe product records and transcribes doctor-patient conversations on a phone app, then uses specialized clinical models to structure the visit into accurate notes that flow directly into the EHR. Adoption exploded as physician burnout became a national crisis: Abridge reached 150+ health systems, became the first AI scribe officially integrated into Epic (the domina
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