Finnish startup lands €1.2M pre-seed funding to reduce healthcare documentation time
Summary
Espoo-based Gosta Labs has raised 1.2 million in pre-seed funding from Cor Group and several health sector angel investors, including Jaakko Ollila. The startup specializes in developing an AI-driven assistant for healthcare that listens during medical appointments and generates draft clinical notes. Gosta Labs was founded by Henri Viertolahti and Lauri Sippola, whose previous health technology company, Kaiku Health, was acquired by the Swedish publicly listed medtech giant Elekta in 2020.Artificial Intelligence, with Large Language Models as a prime example, enhances the efficiency of healthcare data analysis and streamlines documentation processes. Our goal is to help healthcare systems worldwide, which are struggling with rising patient numbers and limited resources, benefit from the latest technologies. With our solution, doctors and healthcare staff can focus more on patient care instead of spending time typing at a computer, says Lauri Sippola, CEO and co-founder of Gosta Labs.Physician and co-founder of Cor Group, Olli Karhi, is joining Gosta Labs board of directors.As a doctor, I know that too much of healthcare staffs working time is spent on documentation and record-keeping.