By Carina Storrs
Hyro, a health tech startup founded at Cornell Tech that tackles health care inefficiencies with voice AI agentsraised $45 million in a recent growth investment round and received several prestigious recognitions.
Hyro was born 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’s degrees in engineering, respectively. At the time, Alexa and Google Home Speaker were just starting to take off but only offered basic functions like playing a song and setting an alarm.
“We imagined a future in which AI agents were omnipresent around us, and the question was how can organizations around the world adapt to this new technology? says Krush, CEO and co-founder of Hyro.