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Unlearn

San Francisco, US · Founded 2017 · 75 employees on LinkedIn · 12 known investors

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Unlearn develops AI-powered digital twins and data analytics tools to optimize clinical trial design and execution for pharmaceutical companies. The company aims to accelerate drug development and bring treatments to patients faster through precision-driven study design.

Also known as Unlearn.ai · Unlearn.ai, Inc.

Founders & leadership

Unlearn was founded in 2017 by Charles Fisher and Aaron Smith.

CFCharles Fisher
Charles FisherinFounder & CEO
ASAaron Smith
Aaron SmithinFounder, Head of AIFounder of Unlearn. Aaron Smith has academic research experience in mathematics, including topology, differential geometry, and mathematical physics, and works in machine learning.

Investors · 12

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$50M disclosed across 1 round · 2024

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Unlearn provides an AI-based software platform for clinical development, organized around what the company describes as the sequence of decisions that shape a clinical trial. The platform spans three areas: Plan (trial planning and simulation), Monitor (advanced trial monitoring) and Analyze (trial analyses using AI-generated digital twins). Planning tools include Scout, which searches, structures and summarizes literature and regulatory precedent from sources such as PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov and drugs@FDA; Hindsight, which exposes harmonized clinical trial and real-world datasets for validating clinical and statistical assumptions, population characteristics and endpoint benchmarks; and SimLab, which builds and compares reproducible trial-design scenarios covering endpoints, inclusion/exclusion criteria, sample size and constraints.

The core technology generates digital twins of trial participants that forecast each participant's control-arm outcomes at future time points, which the company applies to reduce control-arm size and increase statistical power. Advanced Trial Monitoring converts blinded trial signals into curated insights intended to surface execution and data-quality issues during a study. Unlearn states it works in therapeutic areas including neuroscience, immunology and metabolic disease, with published work in Alzheimer's disease, ALS and Huntington's disease.

Business model

Unlearn sells AI software and analytics for clinical development to pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors, engaging through collaborations and case-study partnerships tied to specific studies and therapeutic programs [0].

Traction

The company reports approximate real-world results of a 33% control-arm size reduction and more than four months of enrollment time saved, a 20% sample-size reduction achieved (28% potential with Bayesian designs plus digital twins) and about $250K per-patient program savings. A retrospective reanalysis of the ADCS DHA Phase 3 Alzheimer's trial (402 patients, 51 sites) is cited as flagging ADAS-Cog anomalies roughly two months into enrollment, about seven months before formal DSMB review. Digital twins are reported to have increased power from 80% to 90% on ADAS-Cog11 at 18 months using PROCOVA, and a 33% control-arm reduction is cited for the Phase 3 bapineuzumab dataset. Multiple biopharma collaborations were announced between November 2025 and July 2026 [0].

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Unlearn positions itself as a scientific intelligence layer for clinical development and states it is an AI partner to pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors, citing named biopharma collaborations and retrospective validation results in Alzheimer's disease [0].

Differentiation is based on AI-generated participant-level digital twins that forecast control outcomes, applied through the PROCOVA approach to reduce control-arm size and boost statistical power, combined with an integrated planning, monitoring and analysis platform in which design scenarios are reproducible and linked to underlying evidence [0].

Technology

AI-generated digital twins of patients that forecast individual control outcomes at each future time point, used with the PROCOVA methodology and Bayesian trial designs; supporting components include harmonized clinical trial and real-world datasets, literature and regulatory-precedent search across PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov and drugs@FDA, trial simulation tooling, and blinded-signal monitoring analytics. The company reports a disease-specific ALS Digital Twin Generator (ALS DTG) [0].

Go-to-market

Direct engagement with biopharma sponsors, supported by publicly announced collaborations with companies such as AbbVie, Acumen Pharmaceuticals, SOLA Biosciences, VectorY Therapeutics, Trace Neuroscience, QurAlis and reMYND, plus case studies, press releases, published research and conference presentations [0].

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology trial sponsors and their clinical development, biostatistics and trial-operations teams, including companies running early- and late-phase studies in neuroscience, immunology and metabolic disease [0].

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Key figures

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Frequently asked questions

What does Unlearn do?
Unlearn builds an AI platform with patient digital twins to help biopharma sponsors plan, monitor and analyze clinical trials.
Who founded Unlearn?
Unlearn was founded by Charles Fisher, Aaron Smith in 2017.
Who are Unlearn's investors?
Unlearn's investors include 8VC, Alumni Ventures, Basecamp Fund, DCVC (Data Collective), Eisai Innovation, Inc., Flucas Ventures, Insight Partners, Necessary Ventures and 4 more.
How much funding has Unlearn raised?
Unlearn has disclosed $50M raised across 1 round.
Where is Unlearn headquartered?
Unlearn is headquartered in San Francisco, US.