Mosaic Raises Funds for Robotic Surgery

Mosaic Intelligence Labs, a one-year-old startup, disclosed exclusively to The Information that it has raised $47M across two seed rounds led by 8VC and Fundomo (per-round amounts not given). CEO Ileana Pirozzi and co-founder Alison Mackanic met during their Stanford PhDs. They are building a semi-autonomous catheter that navigates blood vessels as the surgeon feeds it in, with a live 3D map of the circulatory system as the intermediate product and mostly autonomous operation as the long-term aim. Mosaic trains on Nvidia simulation software and says its synthetic-data models outperformed models trained only on real data. It is working with Arizona's HonorHealth, and roboticist Rodney Brooks is an adviser with equity options. Caveats: the efficiency, safety and X-ray-free benefits are projections from the company, HonorHealth's Hasan Aldailami and Brooks, not clinical results.