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📸Sunday Startup Snapshot: @NinesRadiology

I often refer to myself half-jokingly as a Master of the Obvious. I say *half* jokingly because I do believe there’s value in curation, the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Time will tell if I have that skill in angel investing, but I occasionally stumble into a startup whose idea is obviously the way of the future (whether the company can execute is another matter). Nines is such a company 👇

Nines does cloud-based radiology. It may not sound sexy but it’s a complete no-brainer business. The number of medical scans being captured is growing much faster than the number of working radiologists, so technology is the *only* way to close the gap.

Nines is much more than just "tele-medicine". The company augments human radiologists with AI. AI-augmented radiology is unquestionably better than human-only radiology in every way: Better, faster, cheaper, more scalable.

This is one of those businesses where scale begets scale. The more scan data that Nines can aggregate, the better the AI, the better the economics, the more distribution, and so on. It's a big enough market for several winners but the #1 player will win BIG.

One of my friends happens to be a med school student and has chosen radiology as her specialty. When I told her about Nines she got so excited that she contacted the CEO (who took a meeting 🙌).

The next generation of docs *wants* to work at the intersection of medicine and tech and is happy to collaborate with AI, so expect many more companies like Nines across all disciplines of medicine.

This is my second Sunday Startup Snapshot. If you enjoy these let me know and I'll keep going.

[DISCLAIMER: These snapshots are based solely on publicly available information and I may be an investor in some of the companies I profile.]