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Verbal

Techstars '26500 Global '18Plug and Play Ventures

Covina, US · 16 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors

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Verbal is an AI platform that audits healthcare interactions—including calls, video telemedicine, clinical notes, and chat—to ensure compliance with internal protocols and external standards like TJC and URAC. It serves healthcare organizations seeking real-time and retrospective quality monitoring across patient-facing teams.

Also known as Verbal AI

Founders & leadership

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Eric Lee Escobedo Wu
WMWaleed Mohsen
Waleed Mohsen

Investors · 9

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Verbal (tryverbal.com) offers an AI compliance and quality-assurance system for healthcare organizations that automatically reviews clinical and non-clinical interactions. The product audits phone calls, video/telemedicine sessions, secure chat messages and chart notes, and is positioned to audit output from human staff as well as AI scribes and AI voice and chat agents. The company frames the problem as an adherence gap: most organizations review under 1% of interactions using channel-specific point tools, while Verbal aims to cover 100% of interactions in one system, in both real time and retrospectively.

Core modules include call audits driven by configurable AI checklists, automated chart-note audits that flag documentation gaps and inconsistencies for accuracy, billing compliance and accreditation purposes, patient insights and topic analysis, conversational analysis (speaking pace, talk-to-listen ratio, sentiment), and analytics dashboards tracking adherence, sentiment and compliance trends at the level of an individual interaction, staff member, team, time period or AI agent group. Audits can be run against an organization's internal standards as well as external accreditation frameworks and playbooks such as TJC, CHAI and URAC. The company states the platform is HIPAA-compliant and fully encrypted.

Deployment is described as low-IT-lift: a Verbal desktop app captures phone and video interactions directly (with in-person capture listed as coming soon), and a Chrome extension provides platform-agnostic capture. Verbal describes an onboarding arc in which it connects to the existing communication stack immediately, trains custom models on the customer's protocols and role/service-line requirements within about a week to a month with accuracy validation before user rollout, then supports ongoing adherence management and accreditation readiness.

Business model

B2B software sold to healthcare provider organizations, delivered as a continuously running AI auditing layer over existing communication and documentation systems, with custom models trained on each customer's protocols and compliance requirements.

Traction

The website cites customer results from 2025 including up to 90% reduction in compliance costs by replacing manual audits and up to 79% improvement in adherence within the first 90 days. Verbal was announced in October 2025 as a qualified solution for healthcare compliance on Mayo Clinic Platform, reaching its network of more than 50 affiliated healthcare organizations. Other press items list selection for the Healthworx 2024 accelerator cohort and participation in the NVIDIA Inception Program. Named users quoted include clinical operations directors, healthcare coaches, therapists and contact center staff.

Latest developments

In October 2025 Verbal was announced as a qualified solution for healthcare compliance on Mayo Clinic Platform. In August 2026 the company's blog reported the formation of the Council for Healthcare AI Responsibility & Safety (CHAIRS) by former Joint Commission leaders, alongside an inaugural report on clinical adherence gaps; Verbal advisor Fred Brown, former Chairman of The Joint Commission and the American Hospital Association, is identified as a CHAIRS member. Verbal also lists CHAI among the external frameworks its audits can evaluate against.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Positions itself as a single, channel-agnostic auditing layer for healthcare interactions, contrasted with point tools that cover only one channel and with manual audit programs that sample under 1% of interactions, and as independent of whichever AI scribe or agent a customer deploys.

Coverage of multiple interaction types (calls, telemedicine, secure chat, chart notes, AI voice and chat agents) in one system; real-time as well as retrospective auditing; vendor-independent oversight of third-party AI tools; configurable evaluation against both internal standards and external accreditation frameworks such as TJC, CHAI and URAC; deployment without telephony integration projects via desktop app and browser extension.

Technology

AI models that transcribe and evaluate call, video, chat and chart-note content against configurable checklists and accreditation frameworks; custom per-organization models trained on the customer's protocols across roles and service lines and refined as more interactions accumulate; conversational analytics covering pace, talk-to-listen ratio and sentiment; capture via a desktop application and a Chrome browser extension; API integrations with communication platforms and EHRs; HIPAA-compliant and encrypted data handling.

Go-to-market

Direct sales led by demo requests and no-commitment free trials on the website, supported by integrations and marketplace presence (Healthie marketplace, RingCentral, NICE, Zoom, Chrome extension), a healthcare compliance content blog ("The Audit"), accelerator and platform programs, and advisory endorsements from former accreditation-body leaders.

Healthcare organizations with patient-facing teams, including telehealth and virtual mental health providers, healthcare contact centers, clinical coaching and community health programs, psychology and therapy practices, and clinical operations and compliance leadership responsible for accreditation and quality assurance.

Geography

United States; headquartered in Covina, California.

History

Waleed Mohsen is identified as CEO of Verbal in an August 2025 company interview. Verbal was selected for the Healthworx 2024 accelerator cohort and joined the NVIDIA Inception Program, and in October 2025 became a qualified solution on Mayo Clinic Platform.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
HeadcountAug 202616
Improvement in protocol adherence in first 90 daysJan 202579%
Mayo Clinic Platform affiliated healthcare organizations reachable via qualifiedOct 202550 organizations
Reduction in compliance costs reported by customersJan 202590%
Share of interactions auditedJan 2025100%

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

Timeline · 5

launches, deals, and filings
Aug 2026
CHAIRS council formed by former Joint Commission leaders, with Verbal advisor as member

Verbal's blog reported the formation of the Council for Healthcare AI Responsibility & Safety (CHAIRS) and publication of an inaugural report on clinical adherence gaps; Verbal advisor Fred Brown, former Chairman of The Joint Commission and the American Hospital Association, is listed as a CHAIRS member.

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Oct 2025
Verbal named qualified solution for healthcare compliance on Mayo Clinic Platform

Verbal's AI-powered clinical compliance solutions were made available to Mayo Clinic Platform's network of over 50 affiliated healthcare organizations.

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Jan 2025
Integrations with RingCentral, NICE, Healthie, Zoom and Chrome extension

Verbal lists API-based integrations with RingCentral and NICE contact center platforms, the Healthie EHR marketplace, Zoom meetings, and a platform-agnostic Chrome browser extension.

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Jan 2024
Selected for Healthworx 2024 accelerator cohort

Verbal was selected for the Healthworx 2024 accelerator cohort, per press items listed on the company site.

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Jan 2024
Verbal joins the NVIDIA Inception Program

Press coverage listed on Verbal's site (CBS4, EIN Presswire) reports Verbal joining the NVIDIA Inception Program.

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

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

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

Frequently asked questions

What does Verbal do?
Verbal is an AI platform that audits healthcare calls, telemedicine visits, chat and chart notes for protocol and compliance adherence.
Who founded Verbal?
Verbal was founded by Eric Lee Escobedo Wu, Waleed Mohsen.
Who are Verbal's investors?
Verbal's investors include 500 Global, AUTHENTIC VENTURES, Chicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV), Civilization Ventures Management, Llc, Cosmic Venture Partners, East Post Road Ventures, K20 Fund, Plug and Play Ventures and 1 more.
Where is Verbal headquartered?
Verbal is headquartered in Covina, US.