What You Should Know:
– voize, the AI company redefining nursing care, has secured $50M in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital.
– The investment will fuel its expansion into the U.S. and Europe, accelerating its mission to give nurses up to 30% of their time back from administrative work.
The Crisis Point: Administrative Burden and Nursing Shortage
Healthcare systems across the globe are facing a staffing crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts a global deficit of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, driven by aging populations and rising care demands.
The problem is compounded by a massive administrative burden:
- Time Loss: Nurses lose 30% of their time to administrative work.
- Economic Cost: This administrative time costs an estimated $246 billion annually in labor across the U.S. and Europe.
This toxic combination leads to burnout, high turnover, and significantly less time for patient care. While physicians have seen the deployment of AI scribes, nurses—the backbone of healthcare—have often been overlooked, leaving them to jot vital notes on scraps of paper mid-shift.
Ambient AI Purpose-Built for Nursing Workflows
voize, founded in 2020, was inspired by the need to return time to frontline care after co-founders Fabio and Marcel Schmidberger witnessed the administrative struggles in a nursing home setting. voize’s AI companion is developed hand-in-hand with nurses, ensuring the technology seamlessly fits into existing nursing workflows.
The proprietary AI models are purpose-built for nursing, capable of accurately capturing complex medical language, understanding regional dialects, and supporting non-native speakers.
Key technology differentiators include:
- Workflow Automation: voize listens as nurses speak during care, understands their notes, and handles admin like documentation and scheduling in real time.
- Offline Capability: The system is efficient enough to run locally on smartphones, ensuring high data protection and continuous, reliable care even when Wi-Fi fails—a first in healthcare AI.
Adoption Impact and Recruitment Advantage
Today, the AI companion is used by 1,100+ care facilities and supports over 75,000 nurses in Germany and Austria. Care homes are now featuring voize in job advertisements, transforming the platform into a critical recruitment tool that influences where nurses choose to work.
“Nurses enter the profession to care for people, and leave it because of all the admin work. For too long, they’ve had little technology designed to truly support them. At voize, we’re building AI that redefines what it means to care, where technology works in the background, and people come first. Seeing this come to life already across care homes and hospitals and hearing how nurses rediscover the joy in their jobs has been incredible. With the backing of Balderton and our brilliant investors, we’re ready to bring this technology to nurses across the world.”
