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Health AI Raised $655M+ In Just Three Deals

OpenEvidence, Precision Neuroscience and Rightway alone pulled in more than $655 million in late-September rounds, underscoring how much AI capital is now flowing into healthcare specifically.

By the Numbers

$250M
OpenEvidence
$250M
Precision Neuroscience
$155M
Rightway
$655M+
Combined
Sep 24-25, 2026
Window
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By the Funding Desk
Edited by Trace Cohen · Early-stage VC & angel · Founder, New York Venture Partners
1 min read
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THE RUNDOWN

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Three separate health-tech rounds -- OpenEvidence's $250M, Precision Neuroscience's $250M, and Rightway's $155M -- landed within days of each other in late September, all from different sub-sectors of health AI.

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The lead investors span the spectrum from traditional venture (Andreessen Horowitz, Francisco Partners) to non-traditional capital (Pershing Square, hospital systems), showing health AI now draws beyond dedicated healthcare funds.

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Combined, these three rounds alone exceed the total disclosed venture funding Pulse tracks for several entire sectors this month, a concentration worth watching for anyone benchmarking where late-2026 AI capital is actually landing.

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None of these are foundation-model plays -- they're applied AI in diagnostics, brain-computer interfaces, and pharmacy benefits, suggesting the safest AI capital right now is flowing to vertical applications with existing revenue, not new base models.

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The VC Read · Trace's Take

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The tell here is the investor mix: Pershing Square and hospital systems aren't traditional health-tech VCs, which means the capital base for applied health AI is widening past specialist funds. If you're raising a health-AI round right now, the comp set to cite isn't just Series A/B health-tech deals -- it's these three, and the pitch should lean on revenue, not model capability.

Analysis

Three health-tech AI rounds landed within roughly 24 hours of each other in late September, and added together they total more than $655 million -- a useful marker of how much capital is flowing into applied health AI specifically, as distinct from the foundation-model labs that usually dominate the funding headlines.

  • [OpenEvidence](/pulse/company/openevidence) -- $250M round led by hospital systems and Andreessen Horowitz: a medical-search platform now ambitious enough to reach a reported $15B valuation. Refresh Miami.
  • [Precision Neuroscience](/pulse/precision-neuroscience-250m-series-d-bci-2026) -- $250M Series D backed by Bill Ackman's Pershing Square: builds a surface-level brain-computer interface, positioned as a less invasive alternative to Neuralink's implanted electrodes.
  • [Rightway](/pulse/rightway-155m-series-e-1-75b-valuation-2026) -- $155M Series E at a $1.75B valuation: a pharmacy-benefit and care-navigation platform challenging incumbents like CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts.

“Refresh Miami.”

What ties the three together isn't sub-sector -- diagnostics search, brain implants, and PBM software have almost nothing in common technically -- it's that each is an applied AI product with existing revenue and a defined customer base, not a new foundation model chasing compute. That's a distinct pattern from the mega-rounds going to infrastructure players like Nscale or Anthropic: the health-AI capital this week is buying commercialization, not training runs.

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