MediSearch

What MediSearch does

MediSearch is a San Francisco-based, privately held company founded in 2023 that operates an AI-powered medical search engine delivering science-based answers to medical questions. Its core product is a consumer-facing web platform that retrieves and synthesizes information from a proprietary, daily-refreshed index of clinical guidelines (including ACC/AHA, WHO, NIH, CDC, NICE, and FDA), peer-reviewed scientific articles, medical textbooks, and health blogs, returning citation-backed responses in conversational format with real-time streaming via Server-Sent Events. The platform supports 14+ languages, advanced filtering by specialty and study type, and two model variants (standard and Pro) tuned for balanced versus complex medical reasoning.

The product portfolio comprises four components: the consumer MediSearch application (claiming 1M+ users worldwide), MediSearch Pro as a premium consumer tier, the MediSearch API for B2B integration (REST with SSE, Python client via pip, JavaScript examples), and the MediSearch Trust Center (trust.medisearch.io) for security and compliance disclosure. Technical differentiators include 53.3% accuracy on the HealthBench Hard benchmark (outperforming GPT-4's 46.2%) and HIPAA plus SOC 2 Type 1 compliance for enterprise healthcare deployments.

The business model is API-first and product-led: a free tier (1,000 requests) onboards developers into a metered production subscription at $20/month plus per-request fees ($0.02 standard, $0.07 Pro), with custom enterprise contracts for large-scale, HIPAA/SOC 2-bound deployments. Target customer segments span individual health-information consumers, B2B consumer health application builders, clinical decision support integrators, and organizations evaluating medical LLMs. The company has raised disclosed funding from KAYA, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, Y Combinator Continuity Fund (mid-2023), and ZAKA VC (December 2024), though specific round amounts are not publicly stated in the available source data.

Name

MediSearch

Legal name

MediSearch

Website

https://medisearch.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

MediSearch is an AI-powered medical search engine, founded in 2023 in San Francisco, that delivers citation-backed, science-based answers to medical questions via a consumer platform and a developer API, serving individual users, health apps, and clinical decision support integrators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare AI Search Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Clinical & Translational Informatics (Clinical Data Integration/Real-World Data for R&D) (HLAGAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare Terminology, Ontology & Code Set Management (SNOMED/LOINC/ICD/RxNorm) (HLACAIAF), SaMD – Imaging & Signal Analysis (AI/ML) (HLACANAG)

Keywords

• Medical search engine
• Health AI API
• Clinical decision support
• Evidence-based medicine
• Medical question answering

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. API Subscription (Production Tier): Monthly subscription starting at $20/month plus per-request usage fees ($0.02 per standard request, $0.07 per Pro request). Provides unlimited requests and priority support.
2. API Free Tier: Freemium model offering 1,000 free requests with full API functionality and email support to enable developer testing and onboarding.
3. Enterprise Custom Contracts: Custom-tailored pricing for large-scale deployments with volume-based discounts, dedicated support, and SLA guarantees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

MediSearch operates an AI-powered medical search engine that delivers direct, science-based answers to medical questions, drawing on peer-reviewed journals, international health guidelines (WHO, NIH, CDC, NICE, FDA), medical textbooks, and clinical practice guidelines. It exposes this capability through a consumer-facing Q&A platform used by over one million people and through a developer API with Python and JavaScript clients that integrates medical search into third-party healthcare and consumer health applications.

Product overview

MediSearch is a consumer health information platform offering instant science-based answers to medical questions. The core MediSearch platform enables users to ask common and complex medical questions and receive answers grounded in reliable sources. The product portfolio includes MediSearch Pro (premium tier with enhanced AI capabilities), the MediSearch API (for developers to integrate medical AI into their applications), and the MediSearch Trust Center (security and compliance portal). Users world-wide can access the platform with a free tier and optional Pro subscription for enhanced capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MediSearch Consumer-facing web platform that provides instant, science-based answers to medical questions, enabling users to ask common and complex queries and receive responses grounded in peer-reviewed research and clinical guidelines.
• MediSearch API REST API with Server-Sent Events streaming that lets developers integrate citation-backed medical AI search into third-party applications, including access to full-text clinical guidelines, daily research indexing, and filtering by specialty, date, and study type.

Quantifiable outcome

• 53.3% accuracy on HealthBench Hard benchmark for complex medical reasoning

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability4 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Semantic Scholar: AI-augmented scientific literature search and TLDR summaries; adjacent emerging player that overlaps with MediSearch's source-tracking, citation, and researcher-segment capabilities.
• Kahun: Knowledge-graph-driven medical AI for clinical reasoning; emerging peer operating in the medical LLM/Q&A space with narrower customer base than MediSearch.

Direct peers

• OpenEvidence: AI-powered medical evidence search and clinical Q&A platform used by physicians; closest direct competitor to MediSearch's clinician-facing clinical decision support value proposition.
• Atropos Health: Evidence-based clinical informatics platform that delivers real-world evidence answers to physician queries; competes for the same clinical decision support budget as MediSearch's enterprise tier.
• Glass Health: Clinical decision support and medical knowledge platform for clinicians with guideline-backed AI summaries; comparable healthcare data platform use case for the Healthcare Providers & Clinicians segment.
• Consensus: AI search engine that pulls answers directly from peer-reviewed scientific literature; overlaps directly with MediSearch's citation-backed scientific-article retrieval and consumer/researcher Q&A workflow.
• Elicit: AI research assistant that searches and synthesizes scientific papers; overlaps with MediSearch's research-article search, citation-backed answers, and study-type filtering capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Doximity: Large physician network with embedded AI clinical tools and GPT-based workflows; broader incumbent that competes for clinician mindshare and enterprise healthcare budgets.
• Hippocratic AI: Safety-focused medical LLM and healthcare agent platform serving similar clinical and consumer health buyers; broader incumbent in medical-specialized AI rather than a search-first offering.
• Perplexity: General-purpose AI answer engine with citation-backed responses and a growing health/medical surface; closest generalist competitor whose accuracy improvements threaten MediSearch's specialization advantage.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/medi_search

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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