7 Years Building the AI Layer
for Healthcare Education
Physicians, deans, and AI EdTech leaders building the new gold standard.
Ora's journey to a nationwide platform
A UCSF phenomenon
- A UCSF student builds his own study method and scores in the 100th percentile on the USMLE.
- He turns it into a tool for classmates. Within a week it's the #1 study resource at UCSF.
- It spreads to Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and UC San Diego.
Publisher-quality, built for scale
- Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and top physician investors in a $1.8M seed.
- Teams up with Thieme to bring premium, trusted content into the platform.
- Builds the full suite: QBank, flashcards, and library.
The AI education leader
- Rebuilt AI-native, Ora starts outperforming other platforms on medical student tasks.
- The first multi-institutional RCT of a USMLE QBank shows Ora beating UWorld.
- Brings on a physician and faculty advisory board and launches the MD+ partnership.
- Thieme runs its neurosurgery, plastic surgery and radiology titles on Ora AI.
The new gold standard
- Opens its institutional platform and starts signing schools.
- Campus ambassador network reaches 200+ students.
- Partners with Sketchy.
- Commits $3M in grants to expand access to medical education globally.
Built by people who've shipped at scale
Meet Ora's leadership team.
Advised by leaders in medicine, assessment, and education
15 advisors · physicians, PhDs, and EdTech founders
ADVISORY BOARD
Lee Jones, MD
Vice Dean at Rush Medical College
Former Chair of AAMC Board of Directors
Shiv Gaglani, MD, MBA
Founder & CEO of Osmosis (acq. by Elsevier)
Susan Case, PhD
Co-author of the NBME item-writing guide
David Swanson, PhD
Co-author of the NBME item-writing guide
Jessica Valdez, MD, MPH
UCSF Obstetrics & Gynecology, UCSF School of Medicine
General Advisor
Adeel Yang, MD
Founder of Picmonic (acq. by TrueLearn)
General Advisor
Derek Harmon, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical, Division of Anatomy
Sophie Yu, MD
UCSF Otolaryngology, Harvard School of Medicine
Surgical Subspecialty Advisor
Donald Keating III, DO
Duke Anesthesiology, KCU College of Osteopathic Medicine
COMLEX Strategy Advisor
Hadley Leatherman, MD
University of Washington School of Medicine
General Advisor
Luis Freitas, MD
Universidade Federal do Paraná
IMG Success Advisor
Alex Zhou, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Amber Chan, MD
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Henry Nguyen, MD
Stanford School of Medicine
Sunitha Konatham, MD
Texas A&M College of Medicine
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