Global Surgical Artificial Intelligence Collaborative

Name

Global Surgical Artificial Intelligence Collaborative

Legal name

Global Surgical AI Collaborative

Website

https://surgicalai.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Short description

GSAC is a US-based non-profit founded in 2020 that runs a global surgical video and data-sharing platform serving surgeons, researchers, institutions, and medical industry partners with AI-powered annotation, coaching, intraoperative decision support, and postoperative analytics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Surgical AI Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841)

akta.pro primary industry

Operating Room Integration & Surgical Informatics (OR control, documentation, connectivity) (HLAHADAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Surgical Visualization & OR Video Integration (4K/3D, Recording, Routing) (HLAHADAD), Surgical, Perioperative & ERAS Pathway Tools (HLACAGAJ)

Keywords

• Surgical AI platform
• Surgical video analysis
• Medical data sharing
• Surgical training tools
• AI-assisted surgery

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership and Platform Access: As a non-profit organization, GSAC generates revenue through membership fees and platform access fees from institutions, societies, and industry partners seeking access to surgical data and AI tools.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

GSAC operates a global data-sharing and analytics platform for surgical data, providing video and metadata storage, video annotation, collaborative research infrastructure, and AI-powered surgical video analysis tools. The platform includes the Coaching and Video-Based Assessment Platform for surgeon performance evaluation, live intraoperative AI deployment for real-time decision support, postoperative video analysis, and the MasTER deep reinforcement learning platform for mass-casualty incident response.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MasTER: MasTER (Mass-Casualty Trauma and Emergency Response) is an intelligent, human-in-the-loop software platform powered by deep reinforcement learning, designed to support real-time decision-making during mass-casualty incidents by facilitating patient transfers and optimizing resource allocation.

Products and services

• MasTER (Mass-Casualty Trauma and Emergency Response)
• Coaching and Video-Based Assessment Platform
• Global Data-Sharing and Analytics Platform
• Live Intraoperative AI Deployment
• Postoperative Video Analysis

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University Health Network (Toronto, Canada)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Amin Madani serves as director of the Surgical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Temerty Advanced Surgery & Simulation Centre, representing a key academic collaboration for GSAC's research initiatives.
• Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Daniel Hashimoto serves as director of the Penn Computer Assisted Surgery and Outcomes (PCASO) Laboratory, contributing to GSAC's AI algorithm development and surgical video analysis research.
• Gemelli University Hospital (Rome, Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Pietro Mascagni serves as surgical resident and contributes clinical research expertise to GSAC from this European academic medical center.
• UCSF (University of California, San Francisco)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Adnan Alseidi serves as Professor of Clinical Surgery and Vice Chair for Education, providing academic leadership and surgical expertise to GSAC.
• Hokkaido University Hospital (Sapporo, Japan)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Yusuke Watanabe serves as associate professor and contributes international perspective from Japan, including involvement in national AI and computer vision research projects.
• East Carolina University Brody School of MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Maria S. Altieri contributes expertise in surgical outcomes research and surgical disparities from this US academic institution.
• Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU-Strasbourg)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Pietro Mascagni serves as clinical research advisor for AI and Computer Science Research, representing this European research institute in GSAC's activities.
• SAGES (Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple GSAC members hold leadership positions including chair of the SAGES Surgical Data Science task force and co-chair of the SAGES AI Task Force, indicating deep organizational collaboration.
• Association of Surgical EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Daniel Hashimoto serves as chair of the Association of Surgical Education's AI Task Force, representing this professional organization in GSAC activities.
• Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Yusuke Watanabe serves as co-chair of the medical team committee, providing a connection to this Japanese professional society.
• EAES (European Association for Endoscopic Surgery)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Pietro Mascagni is an elected member of the EAES Technology Committee, representing this European surgical society in GSAC activities.

Scale indicators4 records

Emerging players

• Medivis: Medivis applies AR/computer vision and AI for surgical planning, navigation, and intraoperative visualization. It shares GSAC's live intraoperative AI deployment theme but focuses on AR-guided surgical execution rather than post-operative analytics and collaborative data sharing.
• Osso VR: Osso VR delivers VR-based surgical training and assessment with AI-driven performance analytics. It targets surgeon education and institutional training markets that overlap with GSAC's coaching platform, though its modality (VR simulation) differs from GSAC's real surgical video focus.
• FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR combines VR simulation with haptics and AI-based performance benchmarking for surgical training. It competes with GSAC's coaching and assessment modules in the surgeon education space, but emphasizes VR-based simulation rather than real surgical video analytics.

Direct peers

• Theator: Theator is a venture-backed surgical intelligence platform that uses computer vision to analyze surgical video for performance assessment, decision support, and training — directly overlapping GSAC's core coaching, video-based assessment, and intraoperative AI offerings. Both serve surgeons and institutions with AI-powered surgical video analytics.
• Activ Surgical: Activ Surgical builds AI and computer vision tools for real-time surgical visualization and decision support in the OR. It competes with GSAC's live intraoperative AI deployment capabilities, targeting similar hospital and surgeon customers with AI-assisted surgical workflows.
• caresyntax: caresyntax provides an OR data platform capturing surgical video and outcomes to deliver analytics, quality improvement, and industry benchmarking — closely aligned with GSAC's global data-sharing platform, postoperative analysis, and industry partner offerings.
• Proximie: Proximie provides a digital operating room platform combining telepresence, video capture, and AI-powered surgical collaboration. It directly competes with GSAC's intraoperative AI deployment, video management, and coaching offerings, serving hospitals, surgeons, and industry partners globally.

Broad incumbents

• Karl Storz (OR1 / Video Integration): Karl Storz is a global incumbent in endoscopy and OR integration, with digital platforms for video capture, routing, and documentation. As a major equipment vendor, its integrated OR solutions overlap with GSAC's surgical video infrastructure but serve primarily as upstream capture/recording hardware and software.
• Touch Surgery (Medtronic): Touch Surgery, acquired by Medtronic, offers AI-driven surgical simulation, video analysis, and education. As a broad incumbent within Medtronic's surgical portfolio, it overlaps with GSAC's coaching, video-based assessment, and learner-focused use cases, though its scale and commercial backing exceed GSAC's non-profit model.
• Surgical Science Sweden AB: Surgical Science is a publicly listed simulation and virtual reality training company serving surgical skill development, education, and AI-based assessment. It overlaps with GSAC's coaching and assessment platform, but at much larger scale and with hardware/simulation offerings beyond GSAC's data-and-AI focus.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Surgical_AI
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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