Pulselife

What Pulselife does

PulseLife is a Lyon-based digital health company founded in 2014 (originally as 360 medics, rebranded in 2023) that operates an AI-powered medical search engine and clinical decision support platform for healthcare professionals. The platform indexes 5M+ documents across 3,000+ scientific journals covering 1,500 medical conditions, and provides AI-driven natural-language Q&A, personalized recommendation features, and clinical case tools. PulseLife has assembled exclusive content relationships with over 100 European medical societies (including CNGOF, SFR, SFC, REF, ANAINF) producing 400+ exclusive contents, and has integrated into medical school training via a partnership with INeS.

The platform is delivered primarily as a freemium mobile application available on iOS (rated 4.6) and Android (rated 4.7), with 876,000+ registered healthcare professionals across 413,000 doctors, 215,000 nurses, and 42,000 pharmacists. The company is led by CEO Dr. Grégoire Pigné (a practicing oncologist-radiotherapist), COO Clotilde Petit, and CIO/CTO Romain Bruckert. PulseLife monetizes via a premium subscription tier (PulseLife Premium) layered on top of the free base, and has expanded its product surface to include medical student tools such as revision sheets, quizzes, and clinical cases. The platform's mission has broadened from prescription support to comprehensive medical question answering spanning diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and patient follow-up.

Name

Pulselife

Legal name

PulseLife

Website

https://pulselife.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

PulseLife is an AI-powered medical search engine and clinical decision support platform serving 876,000+ healthcare professionals with exclusive content from 100+ European medical societies and a freemium-plus-premium mobile app model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Decision Support Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical & Clinical Reference (Physicians, Nursing, Allied Health) (EDAGAGAA)

Keywords

• Clinical decision support
• Medical knowledge platform
• AI medical search
• Healthcare professional tools
• Evidence-based medicine

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Freemium Mobile App: PulseLife mobile app is free for healthcare professionals, enabling widespread adoption. Revenue is generated through PulseLife Premium subscription tier which offers enhanced features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

PulseLife operates an AI-powered medical search engine and evidence-based medicine platform distributed as a free mobile app to healthcare professionals. The platform enables instant access to reliable answers to clinical questions across 1,500 conditions, drawing on 5M+ documents from 3,000+ scientific journals, and includes a clinical tools ecosystem (calculators, decision aids, scores, clinical cases), personalized scientific updates, and real-time medical news, with exclusive content co-developed alongside 100+ European medical societies.

Product overview

PulseLife is a single, unified evidence-based medicine platform providing healthcare professionals with AI-powered access to medical knowledge. The core product, PulseLife (formerly 360 medics, rebranded in 2023), is an AI-driven medical search engine that gives instant, reliable answers to clinical questions. Built on top of this core search engine, PulseLife offers several integrated modules: a Clinical Tools Ecosystem (calculators, decision aids, scores, clinical cases) developed with European medical societies; Personalized Scientific Updates tailored to the user's profile; and Real-Time Medical News sourced from over 3,000 scientific journals. For students, the platform also includes revision sheets, quizzes, and interactive clinical cases. The platform covers 1,500 medical conditions and references over 5 million documents, with over 400 exclusive contents developed with 100 European medical societies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PulseLife (formerly 360 medics) PulseLife is an AI-powered medical search engine and evidence-based medicine platform distributed as a free mobile app (iOS and Android) for individual healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical students. It enables instant access to reliable answers to clinical questions across 1,500 conditions, references 5M+ documents from 3,000+ scientific journals curated by an internal scientific committee, and integrates clinical tools (calculators, decision aids, scores, interactive clinical cases), personalized scientific updates, real-time medical news, and revision/training tools developed in collaboration with 100+ European medical societies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 876,000+ healthcare professionals worldwide trust PulseLife
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• CNGOF (Collège National des Gynécologues et Obstétriciens Français)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational college of gynecologists and obstetricians in France. PulseLife has developed exclusive content in collaboration with CNGOF, including decision algorithms and training tools for the specialty.
• SFR (Société Française de Rhumatologie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench Society of Rheumatology. Partnership for exclusive content development including training materials and decision support tools for rheumatology practice.
• SFC (Société Française de Cardiologie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench Society of Cardiology. Collaboration for cardiology-specific content, training tools, and clinical decision support within PulseLife platform.
• REF (Réflexions et Formation en Rhumatologie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRheumatology training and reflection society. Partnership for rheumatology education content and continuous professional development materials.
• ANAINF (Association des Anatomistes, Neuroanatomistes et Neurobiologistes de France)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation of anatomists, neuroanatomists, and neurobiologists in France. Content partnership for anatomy education resources on PulseLife.
• Institut National de la e-Santé (INeS)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Institute of Digital Health in France. Strategic partnership for e-health standards and digital health innovation integration.
• European Medical Societies (100+ organizations)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with over 100 European medical societies for exclusive content development including decision algorithms, training tools, scores, and clinical resources. Over 400 exclusive contents developed through these collaborations.
• AudipogminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPerinatal data and research network partnership for relevant medical content integration.
• Agence CCCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare communication agency partnership for content development and medical education materials.
• AJCVminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical society partnership for specialized medical content development.
• SNCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical society partnership for content collaboration and professional resources.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ClinicalKey (Elsevier): ClinicalKey is Elsevier's clinical search engine delivering medical reference content, clinical calculators, and decision support tools to healthcare professionals, overlapping with PulseLife's evidence-based content library and clinical tools ecosystem.
• Epocrates (athenahealth): Epocrates provides point-of-care drug and clinical reference information to physicians via mobile apps, making it a comparable mobile-first, clinician-focused medical reference platform with a freemium/premium monetization model.
• PEPID: PEPID provides evidence-based clinical decision support and drug reference tools for healthcare professionals via mobile platforms, comparable to PulseLife in target audience, mobile-first delivery, and clinical reference focus.
• Medscape (WebMD): Medscape is a widely-used free medical reference platform for physicians offering clinical decision support, drug information, and medical news—closely matching PulseLife's freemium, mobile-led distribution and clinician-focused content model.
• DynaMed (EBSCO): DynaMed is a clinical reference tool providing point-of-care evidence-based summaries for clinicians, directly comparable to PulseLife's AI-powered medical search engine and clinical decision support offering.
• BMJ Best Practice: BMJ Best Practice provides evidence-based clinical decision support and medical reference content for healthcare professionals globally, positioning it as a comparable evidence-based medicine platform to PulseLife.
• UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer): UpToDate is the leading evidence-based clinical decision support resource for physicians, serving as the gold standard that PulseLife directly competes against in the medical reference and decision support category for healthcare professionals.
• Amboss: Amboss is a medical knowledge platform offering clinical decision support, study tools, and a medical search engine aimed at both practicing physicians and medical students—the same dual student/clinician audience PulseLife serves.

Emerging players

• VisualDx: VisualDx is a clinical decision support system focused on visual diagnosis and dermatology, overlapping with PulseLife's clinical decision support and decision aids but specializing in a narrower use case.
• Isabel Healthcare: Isabel Healthcare offers AI-driven differential diagnosis and clinical decision support tools for clinicians, comparable to PulseLife's AI-powered clinical search and decision support capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/PulseLifeFR
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@PulseLifeFR
• Facebookfacebook.com/PulseLifeFR
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pulselife
• Instagraminstagram.com/pulselife_fr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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