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← Case studies CS—005 · Healthcare technology · United States

Supporting a healthcare AI pre-seed that grew from $100K to $1.2M.

Company
AI for healthcare operations
Engagement
2025
Our role
Positioning, adviser recruitment and investor outreach

Much of healthcare’s back office still runs by hand. Our client built AI to fix it. When we started it had raised about $100K. Four months later its pre-seed closed at $1.2M.

01 · The problem

Supply costs are rising faster than everything else.

Growth in US hospital expenses, 20259.9% vs 7.5%Supply costs are outpacing everything else hospitals spend.

Source: American Hospital Association, Costs of Caring, March 2026.

02 · Momentum

Past $1M in about three months.

Total raised in the pre-seed round$100K → $1.2MAbout 12 times what had been raised when we started.
03 · The investors

Strategic cheques from the people who know the problem.

Largest cheques in the round$25K–$100KFrom executives who joined as advisers first.

Company-reported totals, raised alongside the founders’ own channels.