Well being AI startup Cercle debuts with backing from Sheryl Sandberg

A brand new well being tech startup known as Cercle launched Wednesday and introduced main world companions and buyers, together with Meta‘s former COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Cercle makes use of synthetic intelligence to try to advance girls’s well being, notably inside fertility care. The corporate’s platform organizes unstructured medical information, corresponding to medical information and check outcomes, right into a standardized format for fertility medical doctors and researchers, within the hopes it would assist clinicians develop extra customized remedy plans and speed up new discoveries in prescription drugs.

As an example, if a affected person desires to freeze her eggs, her physician can use Cercle’s platform to take a look at information from related sufferers who’ve additionally had their eggs frozen. The data is de-identified and nameless, in response to Cercle, however the doctor can see what sort of remedies helped or did not, then use that data to develop a extra customized plan of motion.

“That is the founding mission behind Cercle, to personalize and contextualize biomedical and genomics data so girls could make higher, extra knowledgeable well being choices,” Cercle CEO and co-founder Juan Carlos Riveiro stated in a launch Wednesday.

Cercle’s lead buyers embody Sandberg and her husband Tom Bernthal by their new enterprise fund, Sandberg Bernthal Enterprise Companions, Cercle introduced. Sandberg left her function as COO of Meta in June of 2022, and her fund can be “investing, supporting and scaling alongside nice entrepreneurs,” in response to its LinkedIn page.

Cercle can be partnering with the genetics firm Eurofins Genoma, in addition to US Fertility, the nation’s largest fertility community that helps greater than 100 clinics.

Cercle stated it would initially give attention to fertility care however plans to develop to different areas inside girls’s well being.