Pharos

Pharos is a healthcare technology startup founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco. The company builds an AI-powered platform that automates clinical quality reporting for hospitals, extracting patient data from unstructured electronic health records using natural language processing and machine learning.

Its platform automatically pulls facts out of unstructured clinical documentation and generates verifiable quality metrics with direct references to the original source material. It is designed to replace manual clinical data abstraction, the process by which hospital staff comb through charts by hand - work that consumes thousands of hours per reporting cycle per hospital and, by the company's estimate, millions of dollars in labor costs.

Pharos is venture-backed, with investors including Felicis Ventures, General Catalyst, Moxxie and Y Combinator; the round amount and stage have not been disclosed. The founders previously worked together at Vital, an emergency-room-focused health technology company, where they deployed AI systems in more than 70 hospitals.

The company states a long-term goal of reviewing every chart at scale and giving clinicians actionable insights to help prevent avoidable deaths in U.S. hospitals, of which it notes there are tens of thousands each year. Pharos is at startup stage and is actively expanding its engineering and hospital sales teams as it targets the U.S. hospital market.