We exist to close
the evidence gap
Healthcare has an evidence problem. Demand for proof is rising fast across regulators, payers, and institutions — but the experts who can produce it can't scale to meet it.
We built Augura to change that.
We make clinical evidence accessible
st scale
Generating defensible evidence has always been too slow, too expensive, and too manual — even for teams that already have the expertise. The bottleneck isn't knowledge; it's capacity.
Reaching the market doesn't equal adoption, reimbursement, or clinical trust. That gap is where promising technologies stall and where evidence teams get buried in backlog. Augura exists to close it — building the infrastructure that produces real clinical and economic proof at the speed and cost expert teams actually need.
Our team,
dedicated to AI and clinical research
Romain Pirracchio, MD MPH PhD
Founder
Inaugural Ronald D. Miller Distinguished Professor at UCSF. Executive Vice Chair for Anesthesia at UCSF. Associate and Statistical AI Editor at JAMA. Physician & biostatistician (PhD Biostatistics; MPH Harvard). Leads a joint UCSF–UC Berkeley research lab on AI and causal inference. 240+ peer-reviewed publications.
Matthieu Legrand, MD PhD
Founder
Tenured Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research at UCSF. World-leading expert in critical care. 300+ publications in NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet. Led multiple randomized controlled trials.
Francois Cottin, MBA
Founder, CEO
Twenty years building and scaling technology companies. Former founder, BCG consultant, and Senior Director at Adobe leading enterprise go-to-market including AI/ML products. Built Augura because the evidence gap is an infrastructure problem to solve.
Jean-Paul Saliou
CTO
15+ years building distributed systems, enterprise-grade AI platforms and real-time data infrastructure. Former Data/AI executive at Synopsys and Genesys.
Nicolas Delporte
Head of Product
13 years at Genentech leading pharma R&D data product strategy. Bridges clinical needs and platform design.
