We exist to close
the evidence gap
Healthcare innovation has an evidence problem. MedTech and digital health companies have extraordinary products. But almost none can prove their real-world impact.
We built Augura to change that.
We make clinical evidence accessible
to every company
MedTech and digital health companies have extraordinary products, but almost none can prove their real-world impact. Not because the evidence doesn't exist, but because generating it has always been too slow, too expensive, and too complicated for innovating companies.
Reaching the market doesn't equal adoption. It doesn't equal reimbursement. It doesn't equal clinical trust. The gap between "cleared" and "clinically adopted" is where promising technologies stall, and where promising companies run out of runway.
Augura exists to close that gap. We build the evidence generation infrastructure that proves healthcare innovation delivers real clinical and economic value, at the speed and cost that innovators 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
Technology
15+ years building distributed systems, enterprise-grade AI platforms and real-time data infrastructure. Former Data/AI executive at Synopsys and Genesys.
Nicolas Delporte
Data
13 years at Genentech leading pharma R&D data product strategy. Bridges clinical needs and platform design.
