AI-based physician scientific notes taker Heidi Well being has raised an extra $26.8 million (US$16.6m) to prime up its 18-month-old Collection A.
The follow-on funding was led by US VC Headline (previously e.ventures and BV Capital), which sees Heidi as Australia’s subsequent Canva or Atlassian supported by Native Globe, Anthology (Menlo Ventures and Anthropic) .
Present buyers Blackbird, HESTA, Potential Ventures and Archangel Ventures, having backed the preliminary $10 million Collection A in October 2023.
Blackbird led Heidi’s $5 million Seed spherical.
Dr Thomas Kelly based Heidi as Oscar in 2021 with former Goldman Sachs analyst Waleed Mussa and former Coles information scientist Yu Liu.
The AI tech transcribes and processes conversations between medical doctors and sufferers to supply scientific notes and follow-up supplies, from referral letters to assessments, permitting clinicians to work extra effectively and focus extra on the sufferers.
It launched in February 2024, and has now been utilized in greater than 20 million affected person interactions, with robust adoption within the US, UK, Canada and Australia, and more and more, the EU.
The funding will probably be used to develop its capabilities past scribing to incorporate creating pre-chart summaries, accessing scientific pointers for remedies and administration pathways, and interesting with sufferers exterior the clinic.
Dr Kelly, a former vascular surgical resident, and Heidi’s CEO, mentioned clinicians are overwhelmed by an unsustainable administrative workload.
“This destroys their wellbeing and drains away job satisfaction, leading to an exodus of proficient clinicians from the workforce – additional decreasing the capability of our already frail healthcare techniques,” he mentioned.
“That’s why I based Heidi – to free medical doctors from non-clinical work to allow them to concentrate on their sufferers and revel in fulfilling careers in medication.”
Headline companion Taylor Brandt mentioned Heidi’s strategy to the medical scribe market is really differentiated.
“What units Heidi aside are their daring selections: prioritising customisation over advanced integrations, their global-first technique, and constructing a product-led movement out of Australia that rivals tech giants like Canva and Atlassian,” he mentioned.
“In only one 12 months, they’re already facilitating a million consultations weekly throughout 5 international locations which far outstrips different AI scribe choices—a unprecedented testomony to how completely they’ve addressed clinicians’ wants.”
