Our Origin

Access to the right care at the right time.

Conundrum.

The two years that cost a lifetime

One day, a woman in her mid-40s came to the emergency room where Dr. Abe works and complained, “I have back pain.” She had also been having bloody stools for the past two years. A thorough examination revealed that her colon cancer had progressed to stage 4 — meaning she had only about a 15% chance of being alive in five years. This is despite the fact that her survival rate would have been about 90% if she had been diagnosed at stage 1 or 2, two years before she first noticed the abnormality.

Considering the average life expectancy in Japan, this patient could have lost about 30 years of life to a two-year delay in seeking medical attention. This experience made Dr. Abe realize how important it is to have access to the right care at the right time.

No one in 7.8 billion will not face health problems in their lifetime.

Kubo, a software engineer who later became one of the co-founders of Ubie and Abe’s high school classmate in Osaka, had been involved in the development and research of disease prediction since his university days. Kubo had always wanted to create software that could be used worldwide. Through discussions with Abe, who was beginning his career as a doctor, he saw great potential in medical AI and became even more interested in developing the field.

No one can be left out of medical care — regardless of country, age, gender, or any other factor. Abe, a medical doctor, and Kubo, a software engineer, co-founded the company with the mission of “developing a healthcare guide for everyone.”

Reconnect patients and providers in a world of fragmentation and chaos.

Since 2017, Ubie has continuously improved its disease-prediction AI, drawing on more than 50,000 medical papers, 7 million users a month, and 1,000 healthcare facilities in the field. Thousands of doctors and patients have said that Ubie saved their lives by helping them see the right healthcare provider at the right time.

At Ubie, we believe we can properly reconnect patients and healthcare providers in a world of fragmentation and chaos. As one of Japan’s leading technology companies, we will prove that — together with our partners — we can achieve our vision of “Hello, Healthy World.”

50,000+

Medical papers powering our disease-prediction AI

Users every month

1,000

Healthcare facilities in the field

Our Leadership

Kota Kubo

Co-Founder / CEO

Graduated from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering. In 2013, while enrolled at the University of Tokyo, he began researching and developing software and algorithms that simulate the relationship between doctors' symptoms and disease names. He worked at M3 Corporation for about three years on software development and web marketing in the BtoC healthcare field, including doctor Q&A services. In 2017, he founded Ubie with his co-representative doctor, Abe.

Yoshinori Abe

Co-Founder / CEO

Graduated from the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo in 2015. Completed his initial training at the University of Tokyo Hospital and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology. Co-founded Ubie Inc. in May 2017 and entered the world of data science after meeting a patient who died at the age of 48 due to untreated bloody stools. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Emergency AI Research Activation Special Committee of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. Selected for the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia — Healthcare & Science category. Since 2023, he has been a director of the Japan Medical Venture Association (JMVA).

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