{"id":795092,"date":"2026-10-07T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795092\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:40:08","slug":"healthleap-raises-38m-for-its-ai-that-flags-hospital-patients-who-may-need-a-closer-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795092\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healthleap<\/a>, a startup building an AI platform that reads patient records to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, has raised $38 million in seed and Series A funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.<\/p>\n

The financing includes an $8 million seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures. The company is not disclosing its valuation.<\/p>\n

Founded in South Africa in 2022<\/a> by siblings Jemima and Josiah Meyer (pictured above), the startup initially offered a clinical nutrition tool Jemima had built for dietitians. But the company later pivoted and built a more general-purpose platform that aims to identify patients admitted to hospitals who may be suffering from conditions like malnutrition or delirium that aren\u2019t often identified early enough, CEO and co-founder Josiah Meyer told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cA patient\u2019s chart holds two kinds of data. Labs, weights, and vital signs sit in structured fields, but the most telling signs sit in clinicians\u2019 written notes: poor appetite, recent weight loss, muscle loss, trouble swallowing. Our developing approach is extracting affirmative or negated mentions of these clinical concepts in an easily extensible and scalable way,\u201d Josiah said.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s platform is currently deployed in more than 50 hospitals, where it screens patients for conditions such as malnutrition and delirium, he said. The startup has also built programs to identify aspiration pneumonia, pressure ulcers, and risk of readmission for congestive heart failure, which Josiah said are undergoing further clinical validation.<\/p>\n

To find patients that may be at risk of an illness or were undiagnosed, Healthleap plugs into a hospital\u2019s electronic health record system and uses language models to pull information from written notes, such as references to recent weight loss or difficulty swallowing. That analysis is then fed into its risk models, alongside structured information such as lab reports and vitals to surface patients who may need a closer look. The company notes that its software doesn\u2019t diagnose patients, only highlights items for additional review.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach night, we analyze every adult inpatient\u2019s record: lab results, vital signs, weights, medications, diet orders, diagnoses, clinicians\u2019 notes, and more,\u201d Josiah explained. \u201cEach morning, we write a risk score into the care team\u2019s existing workflow with a dashboard accessible that holds additional information about the patients\u2019 trends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malnutrition likely served as a useful starting point for Healthleap, as it\u2019s a condition that often goes undiagnosed<\/a> and can adversely impact patient recovery in a variety of ways. Research suggests<\/a> 20% to 50% of hospital inpatients are malnourished, and some studies<\/a> have linked malnutrition with longer stays, impaired wound healing, infections, and other complications, as well as higher morbidity and mortality.<\/p>\n

Josiah said Healthleap has grown from three hospital partners to more than 50 over the past year, and its customers now include Penn Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Intermountain, Houston Methodist, and Emory Healthcare. Revenue has grown more than 10x over the same period, he said, though he didn\u2019t disclose specifics.<\/p>\n

The startup sells three-year contracts priced according to a hospital\u2019s licensed bed count, and also uses an outcome-based pricing model. \u201cWe use the hard ROI that the hospital finance team validates and attributes to us as the measurable ROI. Based on that, we contractually ensure that we deliver multiples of the contract price. To date, every customer has seen a 5x hard ROI or more, in some cases over 20x annual total ROI,\u201d Josiah said.<\/p>\n

At the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Healthleap says its malnutrition program resulted in $23.8 million in annualized financial impact, of which $6.3 million came from additional reimbursement and $17.5 million from shorter hospital stays. <\/p>\n

Healthleap plans to spend the fresh cash on engineering, product, sales, and customer success as it adds support for identifying more conditions. Josiah said the company ultimately wants to cover more than 40 major health conditions and expand into outpatient and home care.<\/p>\n

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