
Founded by Vrishank Saini & Tiko Bdoyan
They met at the University of Chicago after joining the same fraternity. Vrishank failed a clinical communications test and couldn’t afford the $9,000 tutor fee. So instead, they built an AI clinical communications coach. Vrishank's score went up to the top quartile, so they said screw it and launched the tool. In 3 weeks, they hit $5k MRR and 2.5k users. Seeing the impact this would have if applied to all of healthcare, they decided to build the AI infrastructure for medical education.
While in high school, Vrishank created a healthcare education app, which scaled to 120,000+ downloads in 6 months. Tigran was the lead machine learning researcher in a bioinformatics lab at the Luddy School of Informatics.
There’s a serious doctor shortage, and governments are responding by mandating increases in medical school seats. Schools are still relying on outdated, unscalable approaches like using actors to simulate patients one by one. Medical schools need solutions that can expand with this demand without losing quality—to fix this, they’re helping medical schools and hospitals scale clinical training with AI.
Soma Lab scales clinical training with AI simulations that let students practice patient interactions, moving beyond the outdated methods. Their platform provides realistic, on-demand practice that adapts to the needs of medical schools, allowing them to train more students effectively without sacrificing quality. They’re solving the bottleneck in clinical education, making it scalable, flexible, and fit for the future.