PROTO VENTURES CHANNEL:

AI + Healthcare

MISSION

To accelerate the creation of ventures from MIT research and technology at the intersection of
artificial intelligence and healthcare.

BACKGROUND

The AI+Healthcare Channel launched in 2019 as a collaboration between the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health research program and the Deshpande Center at MIT. It was the first project from Proto Ventures. AI+Healthcare focuses on creating groundbreaking new opportunities in health care by building on MIT’s pioneering history in artificial intelligence and life sciences, including early diagnostics, drug discovery, care personalization, and care management.

WHO WE ARE

MANAGING DIRECTORS

Gene Keselman
Executive Director, MIx

FACULTY DIRECTORS

Fiona Murray
Associate Dean of Innovation and Inclusion at the MIT School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship

Michael Cima
David H. Koch (1962) Professor of Engineering

FACULTY ADVISORS

Jim Collins
Termeer Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science

Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics at MIT.

VENTURE BUILDERS

Luis Ruben Soenksen
Researcher and Serial Entrepreneur
PhD @ MIT | Synthetic Biology | AI | Devices
MSE @ Johns Hopkins University | Medical Devices

Learn about Luis

AI + HEALTHCARE

VENTURES

Toci

Toci’s app allows patients to share the information that truly matters to them—building trust and fostering meaningful connections with their providers.

Toci then distills this complex narrative with their AI pipeline to personalize the patient’s electronic health record in a way that is clinically useful and profoundly humane.