Signify Premium Insight: Optellum’s Answer to AI’s Question of Value

Much attention and many column inches are given over to medical imaging AI’s most prominent vendors. Interest is, quite rightly, usually directed at those vendors that have secured vast amounts of funding or announced grand partnerships. However, these aren’t the only companies worth watching, with smaller, less well-known vendors sometimes providing the most impactful and market-shaping stories.

Such is the case with Optellum. It is a relatively small vendor, having only raised a small amount of funding since its inception in 2015 (we estimate < $10 million), an amount that pales into near insignificance when compared with some other recent funding activities, propelling AI vendors to total funding hauls of $250m and beyond. The vendor was also quiet in terms of