Meet the team behind a Penn student’s award-winning veterinary AI startup
Meet the team behind a Penn student’s award-winning veterinary AI startup
Publish Date: 2026-04-21 23:50:00
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- Wharton and Engineering senior Seher Taneja launched a veterinary startup called Spoodle aimed at enhancing clinical decision-making.
- Spoodle won the Dave A. Liu and Lauren Wu Prize at the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology Summit, which identifies ventures with potential to reshape industries.
- The startup uses artificial intelligence to optimize how veterinarians access and apply medical knowledge in real-time.
- The current product is based on a retrieval-based model trained on veterinary publications and journals, providing cited answers to support decision-making.
- Spoodle pivoted this year from a general workflow and administrative solution for veterinary clinics to focus more specifically on information accessibility for veterinarians.
- The founders found that veterinarians lack centralized expertise and structured knowledge systems, aiming to integrate real-world feedback into the model’s reasoning process.
- Perelman School of Veterinary Medicine graduate Chris Feaster connected the founders with the alumni network, became an advisor, and offered unrestricted, free access to the product for veterinarians.
- The project got recognition from Dave Liu, who emphasized that Spoodle tackled a significant structural problem in veterinary practice, evidenced by its use in real clinics.
