We think medical evidence is about to be rebuilt from the ground up
Healthcare faces rising regulatory, commercial, and payer demand for proof, while the number of qualified biostatisticians and outcomes researchers can't scale to match it. We're building the infrastructure for that gap, with a small number of partners, before opening up more broadly.
We turn decades of clinical expertise into reusable infrastructure
The bottleneck was never data, and it was never knowledge — it was that expert judgment lived in people's heads, one study at a time, and never got reused. Augura's founders are the researchers who generated this kind of evidence by hand for twenty years.
We built the platform that encodes what they know, so every study compounds instead of starting from zero.
Our team,
dedicated to AI and clinical research
Romain Pirracchio, MD MPH PhD
Founder, Science
UCSF Distinguished Professor of Anesthesia and Statistical AI Editor at JAMA. PhD in biostatistics; 240+ publications in causal inference.
Matthieu Legrand, MD PhD
Founder, Methodology
Tenured UCSF Professor of Medicine and world-leading critical care expert. 300+ publications in NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet.
Francois Cottin, MBA
Founder, CEO
Twenty years scaling technology companies. Repeat founder, former Adobe and BCG.
Jean-Paul Saliou
Technology
15+ years building enterprise AI and data platforms. Former Data/AI executive at Synopsys and Genesys.
Michael Harhay
Advisor, Data Science
Founding Director, Clinical Trials Innovation. Associate Professor, UPenn. 200+ publications.
Maxwell Murphy
Biostatistics
PhD in causal inference from UC Berkeley; UCSF scholar.
Quentin Caron
AI Engineering
Former Chief Engineer at Endiatx. Deep learning from Stanford.
Jean Duthoit
Causal Engineering
UC Berkeley and Arts et Métiers.
Prathamesh Gadgil
Data Engineering
UB researcher in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
