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12/19/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/19/2025 16:58
Cornell Tech Studio startup Hyro raises $45 million to scale voice AI in healthcare
By Carina Storrs
Hyro, a health tech startup founded at Cornell Tech that is tackling healthcare inefficiencies through voice AI agents, raised $45 million in a recent growth investment round and received several prestigious recognitions.
Hyro arose in 2018 when Israel Krush '18 and Rom Cohen '18 teamed up to develop a startup idea for the Cornell Tech Startup Studio course during the final semester of their MBA and master of engineering, respectively. At the time, Alexa and Google Home Speaker were just taking off but offered only basic functions such as playing a song and setting an alarm.
"We saw a future in which AI agents are going to be all around us, and the question was, how can organizations across the world adapt to this new technology?" says Krush, CEO and co-founder of Hyro.
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