#163 CurieDx: AI Pocket Doctor

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After a decade in the ER, Dr. Therese Canares built CurieDx—an AI-powered app that can detect strep throat from a smartphone photo with 88% accuracy. But when she pitches both a consumer and enterprise play, the investors push back: can one founder really do it all? This is The Pitch for CurieDx. Featuring investors Paige Finn Doherty, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Jesse Middleton and Jenny Fielding. ... Watch Therese’s pitch on YouTube (@thepitchshow) and Patreon (@ThePitch) Subscribe to our public email newsletter: insider.thepitch.show Join our private investor community on Substack: thepitch.fund Register for the Season 13 Finale Watch Party: pitch.show/party *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in CurieDx is being made to or solicited from the listening audience on today’s show. The information provided on this show is not intended to be investment advice and should not be relied upon as such. The investors on today’s episode are providing their opinions based on their own assessment of the business presented. Those opinions should not be considered professional investment advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Therese Canaris, and I'm from Baltimore, Maryland.
0:04.7	I've been a pediatric emergency physician for 10 years at Johns Hopkins.
0:09.2	There's truly nothing like it.
0:11.0	But that type of work, as powerful as it is, it doesn't scale.
0:15.4	I'm Josh Muchio, and this is the pitch, where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest.
0:21.4	Today on the show, Dr. Therese Canaris pitches an app that can detect strep throat using the camera in your pocket.
0:29.7	Most of my physician colleagues think I'm crazy. I don't see it as leaving the medicine behind.
0:34.2	I see myself as taking it with me to do something that is truly magical,
0:39.0	life-changing, world-changing, health care changing. This, I think, is what I'm here to do.
0:46.4	The pitch for Curie DX is coming up after this. And whether you're watching or listening
0:51.8	on YouTube, Patreon, or your favorite podcast player,
0:55.5	thanks so much for subscribing.
0:57.4	And don't forget to turn on notifications.
1:02.2	Support for season 13 of the pitch comes from Mercury, the banking platform that makes business finances simple.
1:09.1	Now, this is a product I know very well, because I use Mercury, and I love it.
1:13.2	It's one of those things that feels like it was made especially for me.
1:16.8	And today, we're hearing more from the company's founder, Imada Kund.
1:20.8	It was a great conversation, so stick around to hear it later on in the show.
1:24.5	And if you really want to get a head start, go to mercury.com.
1:28.3	It takes just minutes to get started.
1:30.7	Mercury, banking that does more.
1:33.1	Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank.
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