Vienna's Health Force raises €4.2M seed led by LUMO Labs for hospital AI agents

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Health Force, a Vienna company founded in 2022 that builds AI agents for hospital back offices, has raised €4.2 million in seed funding led by LUMO Labs. Step Venture and Next Tier Ventures also came in, and earlier backers Target Global and Calm/Storm Ventures returned.

The agents handle the paperwork rather than the medicine. At Italy's largest private hospital groups, they now take roughly three in every four insurance claims from start to finish with no staff involved, and pass the rest back with notes on what to check. Because much hospital software has no API, the agents simply sign in with their own usernames and passwords, much as a new hire would. Rather than leave hospitals to assemble the agents themselves, Health Force places its own engineers inside each one to set them up, and bills for every agent it hands over.

Co-founded by chief executive Fadi Haddad and Juan Sebastián Suárez Valencia, a doctor and data engineer, the company works with Humanitas Research Hospital and Gruppo San Donato's Ospedale Galeazzi, and with ULS Coimbra in Portugal on government quality reporting. The money will pay for expansion into Germany, France and Spain, new agents including one for clinical trial operations, local teams for each market and work on the platform. Headcount is set to go from eight to sixteen by the end of the year.