Meet the team behind a Penn student’s award-winning veterinary AI startup

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The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Wharton and Engineering senior Seher Taneja, a student entrepreneur building a veterinary startup to improve clinical decision-making.

Taneja’s startup, called Spoodle, received the Dave A. Liu and Lauren Wu Prize at the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology Summit last month. Open to students, alumni, and industry leaders, the event features a startup competition judged by founders and investors, including namesake 1993 Wharton and Engineering graduate Dave Liu.

In a written statement to the DP, Liu explained that the prize was designed to identify founders working on problems with the potential to reshape how industries operate, rather than those building surface-level solutions.

“A strong idea usually sounds intelligent; a venture-scale idea starts to show evidence that the pain is real and the solution could become part of critical infrastructure rather than a nice-to-have feature,” Liu wrote.

Taneja, who is graduating next month from the M&T program with concentrations in computer science and finance, told the DP that Spoodle uses artificial intelligence to optimize how clinicians access and apply medical knowledge in real time. The current product centers on a retrieval-based model trained on veterinary publications and journals, designed to provide cited answers that can support decision-making during patient care.

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“We are trying to do something not in the space right now,” Taneja said. “We’re building a custom rag model which is trained on site, on publications and journal data.”

The company’s current direction followed a pivot earlier this year. Taneja and her co-founder initially built a workflow and administrative solution for veterinary clinics — including tools for sharing medical records and managing…

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