Briya
60 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
Briya builds a data exchange infrastructure that connects healthcare organizations and life sciences organizations to share high-quality medical and clinical data securely and compliantly. The platform is aimed at researchers and hospitals to speed access to data for medical research and treatment development.
Also known as AIRE by Briya
Founders & leadership

Investors · 7
Also in the syndicate · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$17M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2022–2026
- Undisclosed amountSeriesMar 2026Source ↗
- $11.5MSeries ASep 2023 · 2 sources
Team8 (lead), Amiti Ventures, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Innocare Health Investments, Insight Partners
Source ↗ - $5.5MSeedApr 2022 · 2 sources
Amiti Ventures (lead), Innocare Health Investments, Insight Partners
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Briya provides AIRE (AI Research Environment), a platform for conducting clinical and health research on real-world medical data using AI models the company states are trained on rich, real-world medical data rather than generic corpora. The product exposes a set of purpose-built research agents covering literature review, hypothesis formation, population selection, study design, methodology, data harmonization, descriptive statistics, summarization and analytics, with the stated aim of supporting domain-specific research methodologies. Users can query datasets conversationally, build and manage patient registries through a visual interface, segment patient cohorts, and run studies without writing code.
The platform also includes visualization tooling for trend identification, pattern exploration and evaluation of associations and correlations, plus a collaboration layer for sharing insights across research teams and replicating analyses. Outputs are oriented toward the publication workflow, with analysis generation, built-in validation, peer-review preparation and manuscript-ready outputs. Natural language processing capabilities are applied to unstructured clinical text; a clinician at Shaare Zedek Medical Center describes using them to identify patients with at-risk MASH (fibrosis stage F2 or higher) directly from unstructured clinical data.
Architecturally, Briya states that data is never moved from its source, avoiding warehouses and duplication, and that the design is privacy-first with expert-determined anonymization and alignment with HIPAA, GDPR and other global standards. The company describes plug-and-play connectivity across systems and standards, and built-in compliance checking, documentation and audit trails intended to meet FDA, EMA and other regulatory requirements.
Traction
Public endorsements come from Prof. Jordan Weiss of the Optimal Aging Institute at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Francesco Giuliani, Head of Research and Innovation at Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, which describes integrating the Briya AI Copilot into its research ecosystem as a new phase of an existing collaboration, and Gadi Lalazar, M.D., Director of Hepatology at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, who cites use of Briya's NLP for identifying at-risk MASH patients.
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Market position
Briya positions AIRE against generic AI models by emphasizing training on clinical real-world data, a federated approach in which data remains at the source rather than being copied into warehouses, built-in HIPAA/GDPR anonymization and compliance artifacts, and no-code operation supported by research agents designed with epidemiologists and research experts.
Technology
AIRE is built on AI models the company says are trained on real-world medical data for clinical context, together with natural language processing that extracts findings from unstructured clinical records. A set of specialized agents spans literature, hypothesis, population, design, methodology, harmonization, descriptives, summary and analytics stages of a study. An intelligent engine connects users to relevant datasets in real time across geographies while leaving data at the source, with no warehousing or duplication; anonymization is expert-determined and the platform provides compliance checking, documentation and audit trails aligned to HIPAA, GDPR, FDA and EMA expectations.
Go-to-market
The website drives self-service sign-up and demo requests, and the company markets through named institutional collaborations and conference presence, including a scheduled meeting slot at ISPOR Montreal.
Briya addresses four stated segments: emerging biotech companies validating study findings for milestones and regulatory objectives; life sciences organizations seeking to converge siloed datasets and pursue opportunities in existing and external healthcare data; academic and healthcare institutions testing correlation hypotheses, managing registries and segmenting patient cohorts; and students analyzing datasets and running studies without coding.
Geography
Briya describes connecting users to relevant datasets in real time across the globe; named institutional users include organizations in the United States (NYU Grossman School of Medicine), Italy (Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza) and Israel (Shaare Zedek Medical Center).
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Briya do?
- Briya offers AIRE, an AI research environment that lets healthcare and life sciences teams analyze medical data at its source.
- Who founded Briya?
- Briya was founded by David Lazerson, Guy.
- Who are Briya's investors?
- Briya's investors include Insight Partners, Amiti Ventures, Atento Capital, MS&AD Ventures, Team8.
- How much funding has Briya raised?
- Briya has disclosed $17M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.



