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Sonio

AI assistant for prenatal ultrasounds

Sonio logo
21-100 employees
  • Healthcare
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • MedTech
Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France

Company mission

To improve women and children’s health by enhancing the access and quality of care, through technological innovation, medical expertise and collective intelligence.

Led by a woman

Our take

The interpretation of medical scans, such as prenatal ultrasounds, is very difficult. As such, procedural behaviour can result in missed diagnoses for conditions that should have been looked for, given patient specifics, which is especially dangerous in the field of foetal medicine. Sonio provides AI-software to guide practitioners during ultrasound scans, to optimise prenatal diagnoses.

Although medical professionals are highly trained, interpretive diagnostic tools such as ultrasound scans present particular challenges, and tools to help better the process are so-far scarce. In particular, finding congenital malformations – or birth defects – in foetuses has proven difficult, as there are numerous conditions with an array of markers. Sonio’s diagnostics combine medical history and genetic data to identify prenatal risks for each patient, highlighting what the physician should be looking for. This is further combined with ultrasound semiology – which searches for markers in the scan – to ensure the practitioner does not overlook anything.

Sonio is backed by leading ultrasound manufacturers, and by major private clinics. The company has raised funds to fuel its future, including adding image recognition to the platform, expanding in Europe, preparing to cross into the US, developing its tech, and investing in marketing and sales.

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Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 25 days holiday allowance
  • Restaurant voucher (FR)
  • RTT (FR)

Company values

  • Sonio relies on collective intelligence and diversity

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jul 2023

$14m

SERIES A

Dec 2022

$2.7m

GRANT

Total funding: $29.9m

Leadership

Cecile Brosset Dubois

(Co-founder & CEO)

Entrepreneur in Residence at Kamet Ventures. Former Director of Le Hub at Bpifrance. Previously Head of Strategy at FSI.

Remi Besson

(Co-founder)

Former Post Doctoral Researcher at the Université Paris Descartes, with a PhD from the CMAP at Ecole Polytechnique.

Yves Ville

(Co-founder)

International Editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Fellow ad Eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Former Head of the Maternity, Imaging and Fetal Medicine Department at the Necker Hospital AP-HP.

Julien Stirnemann

(Co-founder)

Medical Researcher at the Imagine Institute. University Professor and Hospital Practitioner of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with AP-HP. Former Graduate Research Fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Professor in the Medical Faculty of the Université Paris. Chair of the PR[AI]RIE Institute, and Lecturing Professor at École Polytechnique.

Erwan Le Pennec

(Co-founder)

Professor at École Polytechnique. Pedagogical Manager of Ecole Polytechnique, Executive Education. Former Head of Research at INRIA.