Summer 2026
Clinical AI Intern
Posted on 5/26/2026
Anterior
11-50 employees
AI-driven platform automating payer administration
Compensation Overview
$60 - $70/hr
New York, NY, USA
In Person
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- Graduate student in biomedical informatics, health informatics, clinical informatics, or a related field; or an MD, MD/PhD, or PhD student with clinical knowledge
- Comfortable reading and reasoning about clinical policy content
- Strong attention to detail, particularly for QA and validation work
- Technically fluent enough to learn and run scripts, and to work within structured data and logic representations
- Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving processes
- Interest in AI, clinical decision support, or health policy systems
- Use our proprietary technology to transform clinical guidelines into structured reasoning graphs, and ensure structural quality
- Validate that structured policy representations faithfully capture the intended clinical logic
- Configure and prepare policy representations for production deployment
- Surface edge cases, ambiguities, and logic gaps across policy representations
- Contribute to the broader policy transformation pipeline, including working with engineering tools and evolving technical workflows
- Collaborate with the team on a potential publication related to policy digitization methods and outcomes
- Coursework or experience in knowledge representation, knowledge engineering, or structured clinical logic
- HIPAA training or clinical research experience
- Familiarity with healthcare standards or terminologies (e.g., CPT, ICD, clinical guidelines)
Anterior provides an AI-powered platform for healthcare payers that automates and optimizes administrative tasks. The product uses generative AI to quickly and accurately handle workflows such as claims processing, approvals, and member communications within an enterprise-grade, secure environment. It differentiates itself through a clinically informed founding team and deep payer-domain expertise, focusing on security, compliance, and scalable deployment for large health plans. Its goal is to reduce the multibillion-dollar administrative burden in the U.S. healthcare system, helping payers operate more efficiently while delivering better care for members, with a subscription-based business model that supports ongoing AI improvements.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$63.2M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2022
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $40M funding from NEA, Sequoia, FPV, Kinnevik totals $64M as of February 2026.
- Supports 50M lives, processes thousands of patient journeys daily via SaaS.
- Eliminates 85% admin costs, reduces 56% staff burden in payer workflows.
What critics are saying
- FDA, CMS mandate human-in-the-loop for prior authorizations within 12-18 months.
- Epic, Cerner embed AI prior auth, commoditizing Anterior in 12-24 months.
- UnitedHealth Optum builds captive AI, capturing payers in 18-24 months.
What makes Anterior unique
- Anterior embeds clinicians directly into payer teams for tailored AI workflows.
- Platform achieves 99.24% clinical accuracy validated by KLAS Research.
- Forward Deployed Clinician model cuts review cycles 75% with 90% staff satisfaction.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
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Vision Insurance
Early-Stage Equity
Competitive, top-of-market salary
Catered lunches and a stocked kitchen
Commuter Benefits
Company Laptop along w/ tools you need to succeed
Learning & development budget
Team-building events
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -4%1 year growth
↓ -2%2 year growth
↑ 4%NEW YORK— FEBRUARY 12, 2026 — Anterior, the clinician-led artificial intelligence platform for health plans, announced a $40 million funding round, bringing total capital raised to $64 million. The oversubscribed round included continued participation from NEA and Sequoia Capital, alongside new investors FPV and Kinnevik.
Anterior raises $40M in funding. February 12, 2026 Anterior, a NYC-based provider of a clinician-led artificial intelligence platform for health plans, raised $40M in funding. Backers included NEA and Sequoia Capital, alongside new investors FPV and Kinnevik. The raise followed a $20M Series A in June 2024, bringing the total amount to $64M. The company intends to use the funds to support its continued expansion, product deployments, new clinical and operational use cases, and ecosystem integrations. Led by CEO Dr. Abdel Mahmoud, Anterior is the clinician-led company using AI to automate and accelerate payer workflows. Its platform support common payer workflows, generating medical and operational savings for health plans (e.g., prior authorization, payment integrity, risk adjustment). It is used by clinicians and technology teams supporting organizations covering 50M lives. 12/02/2026
Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform for health plans, has raised $40 million in funding from NEA and Sequoia Capital, with new investors FPV and Kinnevik participating. The round brings total capital raised to $64 million. The company did not disclose its valuation. Founded by Dr Abdel Mahmoud, a physician and former Google product manager, Anterior automates administrative healthcare tasks like prior authorisations. The platform has achieved 99.24% clinical accuracy in live production, validated by KLAS Research, and supports organisations covering 50 million lives. Anterior's Forward Deployed Clinician model embeds clinical experts directly into health plan teams to ensure alignment with medical review processes. One enterprise customer reported a 75% reduction in clinical review cycles and over 90% staff satisfaction after implementation.
The AlleyWatch startup daily funding report: 2/12/2026. The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 2/12/2026 featuring funding details for Brandlight, Anterior, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Anterior - $40M venture. HEALTHTECH Anterior, an AI-driven clinical workflow platform that automates and orchestrates administrative processes for health plans and healthcare payers, has raised $40M in Venture funding from New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital, FPV Ventures, and Kinnevik. Founded by Abdel Mahmoud and Zahid Mahmood in 2022, Anterior has now raised a total of $64M in reported equity funding. Brandlight - $30M Series A. AI/MARKETING Brandlight, a monitoring and brand narrative optimization platform for the AI-driven search era, has raised $30M in Series A funding led by Pelion Venture Partners. Founded by Didi Dvash, Imri Marcus, and Uri Gafni in 2024, Brandlight has now raised a total of $35.8M in reported equity funding. REACH NYC TECH LEADERS AlleyWatch is NYC's leading source of tech and startup news, reaching the city's most active founders, investors, and tech leaders. Advertise today Didero - $30M Series A. AI/PROCUREMENT Didero, an AI agent for automating routine procurement processes, has raised $30M in Series A funding led by Chemistry and Headline. Founded in 2023, Didero has now raised a total of $37M in reported equity funding. Sante - $7.6M seed. RETAIL TECH Sante, a point of sale system for liquor stores and wine shops, has raised $7.6M in Seed funding led by Bonfire Ventures. Sante was founded by Antoine Balaresque and Darren Fike in 2023.
We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More. Anterior, a healthcare technology startup founded by clinicians, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to tackle inefficiencies in U.S. healthcare administration. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investors including Sequoia Capital.Founded by Dr. Abdel Mahmoud, a physician with a computer science background, Anterior aims to use artificial intelligence to streamline prior authorization processes for health insurers