Health Force raises €4.2M seed round led by LUMO Labs, opens Barcelona hub

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Health Force, a European HealthTech company that builds AI agents to run hospital operations, has raised €4.2 million in a seed round led by LUMO Labs. Next Tier Ventures, Step Venture, Target Global and Calm/Storm also took part. The money pays for a new European hub in Barcelona, larger commercial and engineering teams, expansion into Germany and France, and new agents built with Spanish hospitals.

The agents currently handle the insurance side of hospital work in Italy: prior-authorisation checks, claims, regulatory reports and similar paperwork, across more than 200,000 patient cases a year at groups including Humanitas and Gruppo San Donato. In Portugal the same platform produces hospital quality reports. The company says three in four cases finish with no human involved, and the fourth arrives on a staff member's desk with a note on exactly what to check, which is roughly what most people want from a colleague.

The platform is described as "deterministic-first": predictable logic is tried before any probabilistic AI model gets a turn, so every action can be traced. That is a modest-sounding design choice for an AI company, and in hospital billing it may be the main selling point. Next up are quality reporting, clinical trial operations and resource planning. "Hospitals don't need another dashboard, they need the work done," said co-founder and CEO Fadi Haddad.