Ellipsis Health just dropped a $45 million Series A, led by Salesforce, Khosla Ventures, and CVS Health Ventures, with a lineup of returning believers like Mitsui Global Investment, Collier, E12, and AME Cloud Ventures. If you’ve been half-listening, you’d think this was just another AI health company getting that VC juice. But if you’ve really been listening, like Ellipsis does, you know this is a different frequency entirely.
Let’s talk about voice. Not pitch decks or press releases. Voice, the raw, unfiltered signal of mental health, stress, hope, trauma, fatigue, and resilience. Ellipsis Health has built a system that doesn’t just hear you, it understands you. Their emotionally intelligent AI voice agent, Sage, isn’t checking boxes. It’s checking in.
At the helm of this transformation is Founder and CEO Mainul Mondal, who blends public health depth with Silicon Valley edge. Rockfeller Fellow, Stanford affiliate, Nasdaq Milestone Maker, Mondal isn’t building another SaaS tool. He’s scaling empathy with machine precision. Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Aratow brings 25+ years of emergency medicine into the fold, giving this AI backbone a real clinical pulse.
Sage is more than a care manager, it’s the brainchild of a company that’s trained its Empathy Engine on over 100,000 clinically labeled voice samples, and built it into a HIPAA and SOC2 fortress. Clinical assessments, patient engagement, risk stratification, post-discharge follow-ups—it all flows through an emotionally aware system that delivers 60% fewer admin tasks, a 4x ROI, and 6x faster program enrollment. And it integrates with Salesforce Health Cloud.
The team? Tight and tuned. Ajit Verma as CTO, Angela Suthrave on product, Melissa McCool on ops, Rafael Viturro in the commercial seat, and Chet Ho strategizing the next play. Add a board that includes Vinod Khosla, Helmy Eltoukhy, Carter Prince, Amit Khanna, and more, it’s clear this isn’t their first rodeo.
And they’re not stopping here. With this latest raise, they’re scaling adoption across providers, payers, and care management orgs. Not to disrupt. To build. To deliver care with nuance, scale, and voice-first intelligence.
