By Janice Bitters Turi,

Surgery AI startup Apella Technology has raised $21 million in its Series A, company leaders told Crunchbase News.

San Francisco-based Apella collects data from operating rooms in hospitals via sensors and puts artificial intelligence to the task of analyzing that information and spits it out in a way that that the startup says can be interpreted by hospitals to improve operations, surgical quality, training and even real-time decision-making.

To start, Apella is focusing on all the things that happen between surgeries, including in the setup and takedown processes, David Schummers, CEO and co-founder of Apella, told Crunchbase News.

“Obviously, there are a number of clinical...