Decoding the GI Tract: Building the World’s Largest Endoscopy Data Moat with Matt Schwartz, CEO and Founder of Virgo

Matt Schwartz is a biomedical engineer and the CEO and Founder of Virgo. Before launching Virgo in 2017, he served as a product manager at Intuitive Surgical, where he worked on the Da Vinci Robotic surgery system. Inside the Episode In this episode, Matt sits down to discuss how Virgo has captured the world’s largest dataset of gastrointestinal endoscopy videos, now totaling over 3 million procedures. Matt shares the founding story of the company, the challenges of convincing hospitals to embrace cloud storage, and the technical hurdles of building "EndoDINO," a self-supervised AI foundation model for endoscopic imaging. The conversation explores the massive potential for AI to detect signals for chronic kidney, liver, and cardiovascular diseases that are currently undetectable to the human eye. Matt also breaks down how Virgo is partnering with pharmaceutical companies to accelerate clinical trials and his ultimate goal: making video recording the default standard of care for every procedure. Find out more: Matt Schwartz is the CEO and Founder of Virgo. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mzschwartz88/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/virgosvs (or @virgosvs) Company website: https://virgosvs.com/ For more information about Nebius head to Nebius.com Follow us on X @nebius.ai