Overview
Andreas Cleve is co-founder and chief executive officer of Corti, a Copenhagen healthcare AI company founded in 2016 by Cleve and Lars Maaløe per Corti newsroom materials. Corti builds specialized AI for clinical and administrative healthcare applications — foundation models, speech recognition, ambient documentation, and agentic orchestration — deployed through EHR vendors, virtual care platforms, and life-sciences partners.
Corti’s about page states the company serves 100 million+ patients annually and employs 95+ Cortians across 9 countries and 31+ nationalities — scale metrics reflecting embedded B2B2C distribution rather than direct clinician branding.
Role and company
As Co-Founder and CEO, Cleve leads Corti’s product lines including Symphony for speech-to-text, Symphony for medical coding, and Corti Agentic Framework launched February 3, 2026 per newsroom releases. Corti states general-purpose AI makes clinical documentation worse, not better, because models built for consumers do not understand clinical language or meet regulatory requirements.
Corti scored 93.3 in a KLAS First Look Report, rated Highly Satisfied by healthcare vendors, announced April 20, 2026 per company newsroom.
Background and career context
Corti newsroom establishes Cleve as co-founder and CEO since 2016 founding in Copenhagen alongside Lars Maaløe. Cleve’s public identity is tied to European healthcare AI infrastructure — including July 2025 announcement of Europe’s first sovereign healthcare AI infrastructure per Corti newsroom.
Cleve’s leadership emphasizes clinical-specialized models trained on real patient interactions and validated against real outcomes — a positioning contrasted explicitly with consumer LLM vendors entering healthcare.
Company-building or leadership context
Under Cleve, Corti expanded from speech AI into medical coding Symphony with up to 25% accuracy edge over OpenAI and Anthropic models per April 1, 2026 newsroom claims, and agentic infrastructure for production-grade healthcare agent deployment. Partnerships include Philips SpeechLive ambient documentation, German practice systems medatixx and S3 Praxiscomputer, and startup acceleration programs announced May 2026.
Corti’s B2B embedding model means Cleve’s commercial success tracks partner product adoption — NHS deployments and vendor integrations — more than direct hospital SaaS contracts.
Public milestones
2016: Corti founded in Copenhagen by Andreas Cleve and Lars Maaløe. February 3, 2026: Corti Agentic Framework and Agent Library launched. April 20, 2026: KLAS First Look 93.3 score announced. April 1, 2026: Symphony for Medical Coding shipped. May 12, 2026: Healthcare AI startup acceleration program announced.
Cleve is named co-founder and CEO across Corti newsroom releases reviewed July 10, 2026.
Why their work matters
Corti under Cleve tests whether healthcare AI infrastructure vendors can outcompete general LLM providers on clinical coding and speech accuracy — Corti’s published benchmark claims against OpenAI and Anthropic give enterprise buyers comparison data rare in embedded AI markets. Sovereign healthcare AI infrastructure in Europe addresses data residency requirements U.S. cloud vendors struggle to meet.
For Brel readers, Cleve’s Corti is the benchmark for white-label clinical AI APIs powering partner products globally.
Sources and references
Primary sourcing: Corti newsroom and About page, reviewed July 10, 2026.
- Corti — Newsroom (corti.ai)
- Corti — About (corti.ai)
Founded 2016 in Copenhagen per Corti newsroom. Patient volume and team size from About page.
Corti’s May 2026 startup acceleration program announcement responds to OpenAI pushing into healthcare while other vendors retreat from Europe — a strategic positioning Cleve’s CEO leadership emphasizes as specialized clinical AI infrastructure rather than general LLM wrappers. Corti about page explicitly states general-purpose AI breaks in high-stakes clinical settings where errors have consequences.
Corti newsroom documents May 2026 Symphony for Speech-to-Text launch, May 2026 Posos partnership bringing certified medication intelligence to clinical AI agents, and German and Austrian practice system partnerships expanding ambient documentation across European outpatient workflows under Cleve’s co-founder CEO tenure since 2016.