Frankfurt-based Oska Health, a hybrid care provider combining personal health coaches with AI, has raised €11 million in Seed funding to scale its continuous care model for high-risk, chronically ill patients.
The round is led by Capricorn Partners and SwissHealth Ventures, with participation from Revent, Calm Storm, LBBW Venture Capital, BMH, GoHub Ventures, and Aurum Impact.
“Chronic diseases cannot be managed in isolated doctor visits – they are decided in everyday life,” says Niklas Best, CEO and co-founder of Oska Health. “We combine human support with AI to close this gap. Our technology supports our coaches, reduces administrative burden, and makes high-quality chronic care scalable.”
Oska Health’s Seed funding sits within a broader 2025 European HealthTech trend where digital care platforms are attracting early-stage capital to support long-term condition management.
For example, Holi raised €3 million to expand its digital obesity-treatment clinic and associated care stack across Europe, Doctor.One secured €4 million to grow its asynchronous chronic-care model into Western Europe, and Annette closed €2 million to build structured follow-up for obesity patients via a clinical companion app.
Alongside larger investments in preventative health platforms such as Numan (~€51.6 million), these rounds illustrate sustained investor interest in digital solutions that bridge gaps between clinical encounters and everyday health outcomes across chronic and metabolic care – a context that reinforces the market relevance of Oska Health’s hybrid AI-plus-coaching model.
“Oska Health is tackling a structural bottleneck in how healthcare is delivered to chronically ill patients,” says Antoine D’Hollander, Investment Director at Belgian VC fund Capricorn Partners. “Over the past years, the team has built an impressive track record in partnering with health insurance funds that use Oska to organise continuous care for chronically ill patients in a medically meaningful and economically sustainable way.”
Founded in 2022, Oska Health aims to close the care gap for people living with chronic diseases through personalised digital support between doctor visits. Trained health coaches assist patients via video call or chat with questions related to nutrition, physical activity and medication.
Due to contracts with health insurance providers, Oska Health is free of charge for insured members. The founding team – CEO Niklas Best, CPO Claudia Ehmke and CFO/COO Dr. Malte Waldeck – brings years of experience from healthcare companies such as Fresenius Medical Care and DaVita.
Oska Health supports so-called multimorbid patients – those living with multiple chronic conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes and hypertension, affecting several million people in Europe.
Certified health coaches deliver care via video calls, chat, and its dedicated digital therapy app. The goal is to translate physicians’ recommendations on lifestyle and/or dietary changes into everyday practice, thereby reducing complications and avoidable hospitalisations.
“For us, it is crucial that care has an impact where it has been least effective so far – between doctor visits,” says Markus Rommel, Principal at SwissHealth Ventures. “Oska Health has developed a compelling and scalable model to achieve exactly that.”
Chronic diseases pose enormous challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. While medical care is well organised, the company says it often fails in everyday implementation between doctor visits: patients struggle to change their behaviour in order to improve their health.
According to data provided by the company, around 50% of chronically ill patients do not take their medication correctly, and approximately 80% fail to sustainably change their lifestyle. This not only reduces quality of life but also drives costs: roughly 70% of total healthcare expenditures in Germany are attributable to chronically ill patients – and the trend is rising.
Already 1 out of 10 Europeans suffers from chronic kidney disease (CKD) and in Germany alone, there are 9 million adults affected.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/02/with-half-of-chronically-ill-patients-failing-to-take-medication-correctly-oska-health-secures-e11-million-for-personal-health-app/
