Soma Lab recently launched!

Launch YC: Soma Lab – Scaling clinical training with AIs
"AI-Based Simulation Medicine"

tl;dr: Soma Lab helps medical schools and hospitals train students and doctors. They practice on their AI simulations before seeing real patients.

Founded by Vrishank Saini & Tiko Bdoyan

They met at the University of Chicago after joining the same fraternity. Vrishank failed a clinical communications test and couldn’t afford the $9,000 tutor fee. So instead, they built an AI clinical communications coach. Vrishank's score went up to the top quartile, so they said screw it and launched the tool. In 3 weeks, they hit $5k MRR and 2.5k users. Seeing the impact this would have if applied to all of healthcare, they decided to build the AI infrastructure for medical education.

While in high school, Vrishank created a healthcare education app, which scaled to 120,000+ downloads in 6 months. Tigran was the lead machine learning researcher in a bioinformatics lab at the Luddy School of Informatics.

The problem: Medical education can't scale with outdated methods to meet the growing doctor demand.

There’s a serious doctor shortage, and governments are responding by mandating increases in medical school seats.  Schools are still relying on outdated, unscalable approaches like using actors to simulate patients one by one. Medical schools need solutions that can expand with this demand without losing quality—to fix this, they’re helping medical schools and hospitals scale clinical training with AI.

The Solution: Scalable clinical training with AI

Soma Lab scales clinical training with AI simulations that let students practice patient interactions, moving beyond the outdated methods. Their platform provides realistic, on-demand practice that adapts to the needs of medical schools, allowing them to train more students effectively without sacrificing quality. They’re solving the bottleneck in clinical education, making it scalable, flexible, and fit for the future.

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Learn More

🌐 Visit www.somalab.ai to learn more.
📣 They're out to change medical training for the better, and could use your help! Pass this post along to folks in healthcare—whether they're doctors, medical/nursing students, hospital admins, or anyone in the medical education field. Contact the founders here.

🤝 Interested in trying it out? Book a demo here.

👣 Follow Soma Lab on LinkedIn.

Posted 
March 14, 2025
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