Unlearn AI Funding History

Unlearn AI generates AI-based digital twins of clinical trial participants to reduce control-arm sizes.

Company Overview

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Unlearn AI

  • Healthcare

Founded 2017 · San Francisco, California, US

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Unlearn AI Funding Timeline

  1. Announced Feb 29, 2024

    Series C

    US$50 million

    The company planned to expand the engineering and research behind digital twins used to model clinical-trial participants.

    Led by Altimeter Capital. Participation included Insight Partners.

    Source · dcvc.com ↗
  2. Announced Apr 19, 2022

    Series B

    US$50 million

    Unlearn said it would use the financing to expand the use of digital twins in randomized clinical trials.

    Led by Insight Partners.

    Source · businesswire.com ↗
  3. Apr 20, 2020

    Series A

    US$12 million

    Unlearn was developing digital twins to supplement control groups in clinical trials with simulated patient data.

    Led by 8VC. Participation included DCVC, DCVC Bio.

    Source · biospace.com ↗
  4. Aug 15, 2017

    Pre-Seed

    US$0.7 million

    Unlearn’s founder said the company raised its pre-seed from DCVC based on a thesis about generative models, before it focused on clinical trials.

    Led by DCVC.

    Source · dcvc.com ↗

Unlearn AI Founding Team

Physicists Charles Fisher, Aaron Smith, and Jon Walsh founded Unlearn AI to bring computational modeling to clinical research. Fisher led the company as CEO.

Unlearn AI Products

  • Unlearn Digital Twins

    Simulate likely outcomes for individual clinical trial participants.

Unlearn AI Company Development

Digital Twins in Trial Design

Unlearn developed its approach around using participant data to predict likely outcomes over time. Those predictions can be used when designing a randomized trial, with the aim of reducing the number of people needed in the control arm.

Unlearn AI Competitive Landscape

Trial Design Versus Patient Recruitment

Recruitment platforms help find enough eligible participants for a planned trial. Unlearn works on the design itself: if the statistical method supports it, the study may require fewer participants in the control arm.