The round was led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Upfront Ventures, Delphi Ventures, Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind), Lukas Biewald (Weights & Biases), Clément Delangue (Factorial Capital, Hugging Face), and other investors.

Sophont is building multimodal medical foundation models: large-scale AI systems trained on vast amounts of unlabeled clinical data that can reason across diverse modalities, including pathology slides, brain scans, clinical notes, and lab results. Sophont is the first medical AI startup built in true partnership with academics, clinicians, and the broader machine learning community.