Barcelona's Health Force raises €4.2 million seed round for hospital AI agents

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Health Force, a Barcelona-based start-up that builds AI agents to run the back-office side of hospitals, has raised €4.2 million in a seed round led by LUMO Labs. Step Venture, Next Tier Ventures, Target Global and Calm/Storm also took part. Target Global had already invested at pre-seed and has now come back for more.

The agents handle hospital-insurance work such as prior-authorisation checks, claims processing and regulatory filings, covering over 200,000 patient cases annually in Italy, where customers include Humanitas and Gruppo San Donato. Three in four cases finish with no human involvement. The fourth goes to staff with a note on exactly what to check. The same platform handles quality reporting for hospitals in Portugal. "Hospitals don't need another dashboard; they need the work done," said co-founder and CEO Fadi Haddad.

The money will pay for new agents covering resource optimisation, clinical-trial operations and quality reporting, larger engineering and delivery teams, and expansion into Germany, France and Spain. Spain is on that list, which is a little unusual for a company headquartered in Barcelona. Its operations hub, though, is in Milan, and its named customers are Italian.