Freed

Freed started with a clinician charting at night and a husband watching the clock steal family time. That husband was Erez Druk, Co-Founder & CEO, and the company he built with Co-Founder Andrey Bannikov in 2023 out of San Francisco now has one clean obsession: make clinicians happier by getting paperwork out of the room.

Freed is not selling AI fairy dust in a white coat. It is an ambient AI scribe and clinician assistant built for small practices, community clinics, and the people carrying healthcare on their backs after the last patient leaves. It listens to visits, supports telehealth and in-person care, and turns clinical conversations into notes, summaries, codes, letters, SOAP structure, visit prep, documentation, and EHR-related work.

That sounds simple until you remember healthcare is where simple goes to die. Freed has to earn trust inside the most unforgiving workflow in American life: the clinician’s day. The company says it is trusted by 26K+ clinicians, used by tens of thousands daily, and touches millions of patients monthly. HLTH reported more than 17K paying customers across 96 specialties, 4x YoY revenue growth, and more than 2.5M cumulative documentation hours saved.

The market caught the signal. Freed raised a $30M Series A in 2025 led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Gokul Rajaram, and Ted Oberwager, bringing total funding to $34M. Sequoia framed Freed as an AI clinician assistant automating visit prep, documentation, EHR interactions, and the other clinical chores nobody went to medical school to worship.

The leadership bench has the right scars for the job. Abby Teal, Head of Customer Success, sits close to the clinician voice. Dr. Jack Jeng, Head of Clinical Affairs, brings physician judgment to a product where accuracy is not a feature, it is table stakes. Edozie Eze, Customer Operations Manager and medical student, sees the workflow from both sides of the exam room. Ted Obenchain, Head of Sales, is pushing the story into more practices. Michelle Burchenal, Chief of Staff, is helping turn speed into operating rhythm.

Freed’s edge is focus. Not massive health systems first. Not generic note-taking with a stethoscope sticker slapped on the box. Small practices. Real clinicians. Less midnight charting. More eye contact. More time back. That is the kind of wedge that can cut through a category full of noise.

The culture matches the product: earn clinician love, move faster, use AI everywhere, confront with empathy, and take extreme responsibility. Freed is hiring across engineering, ML, product, customer success, operations, sales, and GTM, with hybrid teams in San Francisco and New York City.

For builders who want AI work with blood pressure, consequences, and actual human relief on the other end, Freed is worth watching closely.