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Emedgene

Founded 1998 · 9,685 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors

Emedgene provides genomic interpretation software that uses explainable AI and automation to prioritize, interpret, curate, and classify genetic variants from sequencing (WGS, WES, panels) and microarray data. It serves clinical and research genetics laboratories conducting rare disease research, hereditary risk assessment, carrier screening, and similar genetic disease testing workflows, and integrates with Illumina's DRAGEN secondary analysis.

Also known as emedgene Technologies · Emedgene Technologies Ltd.

Investors · 3

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Emedgene develops variant interpretation software for tertiary analysis of genomic data, aimed at rare disease and germline screening applications. The software prioritizes, interprets, curates and classifies variants from whole-genome sequencing, whole-exome sequencing, virtual panels, targeted panels and cytogenetic microarrays, covering SNVs, indels, short tandem repeats, copy number variants, other structural variants and mitochondrial DNA. It generates research reports and provides automated ACMG classifications for SNVs, indels, CNVs and structural deletions/duplications, and lets organizations reuse curated knowledge and share it across a private, user-defined network of connected labs.

The product is positioned within the Illumina informatics portfolio alongside DRAGEN, Connected Insights, BaseSpace, BioInsight Platform Core and Clarity LIMS, and integrates with DRAGEN for variant calling. APIs connect the tertiary analysis workflow to laboratory information management systems, storage and pipelines. The listed compliance posture includes ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA and GDPR readiness.

Earlier company materials describe an AI engine trained on data points drawn from patient cases, genomic databases and genomics publications, with literature curated automatically using natural language processing. Reported users of the platform include Baylor Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Greenwood Genetic Center, TGEN and Clalit HMO.

Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI accuracy in prioritizing relevant insights (vendor claim)Jan 202597%
ClinVar variant submissionsAug 20213 submissions
Operating cost savings from AWS migrationJan 202520%
Reduction in genomic analysis turnaround time at Greenwood Genetic CenterNov 201975%
Reduction in per-subject variant interpretation time (vendor claim)Jan 202575%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
AWS migration with OpsGuru for HIPAA-compliant platform

Cloud consultancy OpsGuru published a case study describing migration of Emedgene's self-managed Elasticsearch workload to AWS managed Elasticsearch services, adoption of Amazon ECS and ECS on Fargate, and establishment of a HIPAA-compliant AWS foundation, with reported operating cost savings of about 20%.

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Oct 2019
Launch of Pathorolo machine learning algorithm

Emedgene launched Pathorolo, a machine learning algorithm that scores the likelihood a genomic case can be solved with the information available, described by the company as an additional layer of explainable AI.

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Feb 2019
US sales expansion planned with new funding

The company said it would use its $6 million round to expand sales in the United States, its first target market.

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Oct 2018
Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Innovation

Emedgene was named one of three startups awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Innovation.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 7

primary sources listed

7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Emedgene do?
Israeli-founded developer of explainable-AI genomic variant interpretation software for hereditary disease testing labs.
Who are Emedgene's investors?
Emedgene's investors include Mindset Venture, OTV, Olive Tree Ventures.