More often than not, when we cover fundraises in the healthcare space they are predominantly based in the United States. This week is a little different and we lead with the UK, where agentic healthcare platform Flexzo AI has raised GBP 8.9mn (USD 12mn) for its Series A round led by Octopus Ventures and with participation from Fuel Ventures.

Flexzo AI will use the funding to support the rollout of its platform across NHS Trusts and accelerate its expansion in the US.

The workforce management platform enables hospitals to source temporary and permanent staff from its talent pool without paying a fee. It also contains rostering tools, staff bank and float pool management and a national database of pre-verified healthcare professionals.

In other news…

1. Rivia announces €13mn Series A round
   Rivia, a Zurich-based startup building the data engine of clinical trial intelligence, has raised €13mn (USD 15mn) for its Series A round of funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital. Other investors are Defiant, Speedinvest, Amino Collective and Nina Capital. The funding will go towards growing its team, scaling agentic product development and expanding its international presence—particularly to the US.
2. Kima Ventures, Better Angle, others invest €1mn in Cleavr
   Paris-based Cleavr, an AI assistant for finance teams, has raised EUR 1mn to accelerate its deployment in France and prepare for European expansion this year. Investors in the company are Better Angle, Kima Ventures and angel investors.
3. Ringtime raises €1.8mn to automate end-to-end candidate recruitment
   Belgian startup Ringtime has raised EUR 1.8mn from Volta Ventures, Syndicate One, JK Invest, New School VC and Allusion to expand its product team and accelerate its growth in the Netherlands, as well as the UK and Germany. The company offers a voice-native AI solution that turns calls and messages into conversations by focusing on a candidate’s preferred communication method.
   Ringtime focuses on the labour market for blue-collar recruitment.
4. Bounti raises €4mn for the ‘physical economy’
   Bounti has raised a EUR 4mn Seed round to build AI solutions for the physical economy. The round was led by Ventech with participation from IBB Ventures, Festina, Robin Capital, Common Magic and angel investors.
5. Reson8 concludes €5mn Pre-Seed round
   Reson8, a speech AI startup building hyper-customised automatic speech recognition for European languages, has raised EUR 5mn for its Pre-Seed round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from NP Hard. With this funding, the Amsterdam-based company plans to grow its team and expand specialised speech models. 
6. Health Lean Analytics eyes the US for expansive growth
   Health Lean Analytics, a company that specialises in data collection in hospital environments, has closed a EUR 1.4mn Seed round from Novanta, Inderhabs, Namarel and Braincats.
   Novanta’s investment secures it a board position as it will serve as an entry point in the US market as HLA prepares for its rollout over the next twelve months.
   This latest round of funding brings the total amount raised by HLA to EUR 2.1mn.
7. Rubi raises $7.5mn in new funding, secures more than $60mn in offtake agreements
   Rubi has raised USD 7.5mn in fresh funding from AP Ventures, FH One, Inc., Talis Capital, H&M Group, CMPC Ventures and Understorey. The chemical manufacturing company will use the funding to build a demonstration scale of its cellulosic production system. It has also booked more than USD 60mn in non-binding off-take agreements.