voize, a company out of Germany building an AI companion for the nursing care sector, has raised €43 million ($50 million) in Series A funding to expand in Europe and enter the US – advancing its mission to eliminate administrative burdens in healthcare.
The round was led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Redalpine and Y Combinator.
Fabio Schmidberger, co-founder and CEO of voize, says: “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.”
In 2025, European investment into digital healthcare tools has been steady, with several companies raising capital in areas adjacent to voize’s focus on reducing administrative burdens in nursing care.
Austria’s XUND secured €6 million to expand its AI-powered SaMD platform, while Germany-based aiomics raised €2 million to advance its clinical documentation automation tools. In elder care, Spain’s Qida brought in €37 million to scale its technology-enabled home-care services. Meanwhile, Germany’s Clinomic closed a €23 million Series B to grow its AI-supported ICU assistant solution.
With roughly €68 million in sector-adjacent funding this year – and two notable rounds coming from fellow German startups – voize’s €43 million raise sits within a clearly active and well-capitalised European HealthTech landscape.
“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,” adds Schmidberger.
Founded in 2020 by twin brothers Fabio Schmidberger (CEO) and Marcel Schmidberger (COO), alongside Erik Ziegler (CTO), voize was inspired by the brothers’ experience when their grandfather entered a nursing home. Seeing firsthand how much time nurses lost to admin sparked a mission to return time to frontline care.
Developed hand-in-hand with nurses over tens of thousands of hours in care homes, voize’s AI companion documents and assists nurses. Seamlessly integrated with Electronic Health Records, voize fits into nursing workflows, keeping nurses focused on patients, not paperwork.
voize’s proprietary AI models are purpose-built for nursing, developed entirely in-house. They reportedly capture complex medical language, understand regional dialects, and support non-native speakers. voize also runs locally on smart phones with constant internet connection required.
Daniel Waterhouse, General Partner at Balderton, shares: “Nurses are the backbone of every healthcare system – yet too often, they’re overwhelmed by administrative tasks that pull them away from patients. voize recognised this disconnect and built a solution born from listening and understanding.”
voize is adamant that the global nursing shortage has reached crisis point. The WHO predicts a global deficit of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, as aging populations and rising care demands stretch teams thin. Europe alone is short 1.2 million healthcare workers, whilst the US has an expected deficit of up to 450,000 nurses a year.
By multiplying the total estimated hours spent on nonclinical administrative tasks, over 5.5 billion hour annually, voise has calculated that nurses lose 30% of their time to admin work, costing €212 billion ($246 billion) in labour across the US and Europe.
The result: burnout, high turnover, and less time for patients – the heart of care.
Today, 1,100 care facilities in Germany and Austria, and more than 75,000 nurses save up to 30% of their time each shift thanks to the AI. The company even says certain care homes now feature voize in job ads.
“Their AI companion doesn’t replace human care; it restores it, removing friction from documentation and empowering nurses to spend more time where they’re needed most. Care homes are even using it as a recruitment tool, such is the power of what voize has built. This blend of empathy and execution reflects the best kind of innovation. We’re excited to support voize as they scale this mission globally,” adds Waterhouse.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/11/berlins-voize-raises-e43-million-to-use-their-ai-companion-to-give-nurses-time-for-what-matters-most-care/
