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Globally , healthcare IT systems are moan under the free weight of legacy program . Thankfully , there ’s a new wave of startup entering the arena : U.K. startupAnimais a “ charge enablement ” platform that maneuver almost like a combination of Slack , Salesforce and Figma , but for health care clinic and hospitals .
The troupe late raised a $ 12 million Series A support troll led by Molten Ventures , with participation from existing investor Hummingbird Ventures , Amino Collective and Y Combinator , as well as fresh angel investor let in Sidar Sahin , founder of Peak Games .
Anima , a alumnus of Y Combinator ’s Winter 2021 batch , launched in September 2022 and is now used in 150 NHS clinics in England . The startup ’s software lets clinic staff operation and charge healthcare document , but bring in a mellow degree of automation equate to legacy systems .
“ Anima can take a specific aesculapian history , autonomously , for any presenting complaint , and introduce this to the clinic with potential differential diagnoses and suggested next footmark , secure red flags are not missed , ” Shun Pang , co - founder and CEO of Anima , tell TechCrunch . “ The intact clinic collaborate in a real - time multiplayer splashboard , like Figma , and can knock cases to each other , and chat with a Slack - like UX . ” he enounce .
He also added that Anima ’s processing organisation can “ autonomously ingest any document , like handwritten , diagrams , imaging , and output a summary , with integrated fields . ”
Competitors in this space admit U.K.-based accuRx , which is post - Series B and has raised £ 36.6 million to date . In the U.S. , Memora Health has raised $ 80.5 million , and NexHealth , which is post - Series C , has raised $ 177.2 million to appointment .
Pang told me , “ We see our material competitors as any caller with a credible path to a ‘ fear enablement ’ platform , which captures the clinical work flow from ingestion to resolve , consanguineal to what Rippling did for hour , or Salesforce for statistical distribution . ”
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He is also somewhat of an strange founder in this space , as he was a practicing doctor prior to this startup : “ I ’m doubly technological . I trained as a Dr. at Cambridge , and I ’m a self - taught computer software engine driver who wrote a lot of the code for Anima . I was fundamentally work up what I myself had wanted , and have sex would hold open lives . ”
Given its adhesive friction and founder hinterland , Anima has pull off to make encouraging inroad into the NHS , which is said to be notoriously slippery to deal with .
Inga Deakin , a school principal at Molten Ventures , said in a affirmation : “ Software and contrived intelligence operation ( AI ) in healthcare is a rapidly develop multi-$bn sphere , but many solutions take time to integrate and realise their potential … Anima is growing rapidly , because they can direct and like a shot have an wallop . ”
