Vera founders Maxime Allouch and Taieb Bennani
Medical knowledge is expanding at an unprecedented pace. PubMed adds more than 1.5 million new citations every year. In theory, AI tools should help translate research into better patient outcomes. In practice, they can create a layer of noise.
Some AI tools provide clinicians with quick answers. The harder problem is ensuring the right research is selected and applied in the right clinical context. A cardiologist and an emergency physician may ask similar questions but require different answers. They operate in different environments, under different time pressures, and with different workflows.
Clinicians evaluate evidence carefully. They consider study design, sample size, recency, and whether the population matches the patient in front of them. One weak citation or old guideline does not just weaken a single response, it erodes trust in the tool.
We led Vera Health’s seed round alongside Garry Tan at Y Combinator to build the trusted intelligence layer for clinicians globally. Vera was founded by MIT graduates Maxime and Taieb, who grew up in physician households. They have built the product through thousands of conversations with doctors, designing around the realities of clinical care.
Why Vera Health?
Vera is retrieval-first. When a clinician asks a question, the system breaks it into components such as drug interactions, contraindications, and dosing. It searches across more than 60 million peer-reviewed papers, drug databases, and institutional guidelines. Sources are ranked by methodological rigor and clinical relevance. The output is a clear, practical answer, with every claim tied to auditable sources.
The results speak for themselves. On the MedExpertQA benchmark, spanning 17 specialties and exceeding the difficulty of the US medical licensing exam, Vera demonstrated better performance than competitors across diagnosis, treatment, and foundational science.
Product quality is driving their growth. Vera is now the fastest-growing clinical AI app globally. Today, physicians switch between multiple tools for evidence summaries, risk scores, drug dosing, and clinical protocols. Vera consolidates all of these into a single interface, integrating more than 900 medical calculators, drug-dosing tools, and specialty-specific clinical frameworks in one place.
Vera Health's Partnership with ACEP
Today, Vera Health announced a formal partnership with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), which represents more than 40,000 emergency physicians and publishes the most widely used clinical policies in emergency medicine.
Through this partnership, ACEP’s clinical guidelines are integrated directly into Vera’s engine. When an emergency physician asks a question, relevant ACEP policies appear within the answer itself, clearly branded and fully attributed.
Emergency medicine was a natural use case for Vera. Physicians in the emergency department make high-stakes decisions across every specialty, often with limited information. Vera was built for that environment, delivering evidence that is graded for quality, clearly cited, and available at the speed clinicians need.
Dr. Scott Silvers, Chair of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and former Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic, has evaluated many AI tools:
"Vera stands out for its accuracy, the clarity of how it presents information, and its ability to distinguish between stronger and weaker evidence across the literature. Integrating ACEP's guidelines into a tool this thoughtfully built makes those guidelines more accessible at the bedside and more actionable in real time."
Maxime and Taieb are building something rare: medical intelligence that elevates the standard of care globally. We’re proud to partner with them and excited about the future Vera is shaping.