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Surgery AI startup has raised $21 million in its Series A, company leaders told 附近上门 News.聽

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San Francisco-based Apella collects data from operating rooms in hospitals via sensors and puts artificial intelligence to the task of analyzing that information and spits it out in a way that that the startup says can be interpreted by hospitals to improve operations, surgical quality, training and even real-time decision-making.聽

To start, Apella is focusing on all the things that happen between surgeries, including in the setup and takedown processes, , CEO and co-founder of Apella, told 附近上门 News.聽

鈥淥bviously, there are a number of clinical inefficiencies and delays that also happen during surgery that are really valuable to capture and characterize, but the hospital administrators and the surgeons both really care about the efficiency of what happens between surgeries,鈥� he said.聽

The round, which adds to a $3 million seed round that closed in April of 2020, was led by , with participation from , , Twine Ventures, 听补苍诲 , plus other unnamed but 鈥渘otable individual investors.鈥澛�

鈥淎pella is creating the operating system for the operating room,鈥� , managing partner at Vensana Capital said in a statement. 鈥淭he company鈥檚 technology can create a true system of record by capturing data that is unbiased, reliable, and increases in value over time.鈥澛�

Founded in 2019, Apella has deployed its systems to 鈥渁 handful鈥� of hospitals across the United States to help the company gather information and refine its technology. Now, it鈥檚 in talks with what Schummers calls 鈥渓uminary hospitals鈥� to put its technology to work. He expects the technology to be deployed in five to 10 hospitals in the first half of next year.聽聽

The new injection of funding will help the company get its product into more hospitals and continue developing its platform, but the bulk will be spent on growing the team. Today Apella has around 15 employees, and Schummers expects that in the next six months, that number will double or triple鈥攁 tall order in a tight labor market, he acknowledged.聽

What makes Apella鈥檚 technology stand out in the medical field, Schummers said, is that it鈥檚 meant to improve processes for every kind of surgery, rather than specializing in one type of care over another.聽

鈥淲e are not using AI on one kind of imaging modality, like an endoscope or an X-ray,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e’re using it more to capture the processes that occur every day in every operating room because we think if you start there, you can scale relatively quickly and really have a much broader impact.鈥澛�

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