{"id":106138,"date":"2025-10-07T03:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:10:16","slug":"start-up-heidi-secures-us65-million-to-expand-ai-healthcare-in-hong-kong-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106138\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up Heidi secures US$65 million to expand AI healthcare in Hong Kong, Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Australian healthcare technology start-up Heidi has secured US$65 million in a new funding round, as it aims to expand its workforce and establish offices in Hong Kong and Singapore to capitalise on the growing demand for medical artificial intelligence technology in the region.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company is valued at US$465 million following its series B round announced on Monday, led by Point72 Private Investments, a global alternative asset manager.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The six-year-old start-up planned to build a team of about 15 to 20 people in Hong Kong and Singapore by the end of next year, depending on market traction, with a central office to be established in one of the two cities, according to CEO and co-founder Thomas Kelly.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Heidi\u2019s self-developed AI-enabled platform was designed to transcribe consultations between medical professionals and patients into clinical notes to reduce doctors\u2019 administrative workloads. This would allow them to focus more on patient care and enhance hospital operational efficiency, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heidi\u2019s AI platform has been designed to transcribe consultations between doctors and patients into clinical notes to reduce doctors\u2019 administrative workloads. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bb401c65-5aa9-4384-bf26-5e3459ad3a32_2d2cc347.jpg\" title=\"Heidi\u2019s AI platform has been designed to transcribe consultations between doctors and patients into clinical notes to reduce doctors\u2019 administrative workloads. Photo: Handout\"\/>Heidi\u2019s AI platform has been designed to transcribe consultations between doctors and patients into clinical notes to reduce doctors\u2019 administrative workloads. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong has a large patient population but a relatively small number of doctors, according to Kelly, a former doctor. \u201cIf we can increase the capacity of clinicians, it\u2019s going to make a much bigger impact than in places like Australia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Heidi said its data showed nearly 20,000 and 55,000 consultations had been conducted through its platforms in Hong Kong and Singapore, respectively. \u201cThat was before we\u2019d even launched here,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian healthcare technology start-up Heidi has secured US$65 million in a new funding round, as it aims to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[291,2786,1128,11053,66562,66563,18,2220,6621,135,475,474,65836,4202,19,17,66561,66560,1999,5258,22388,1294,107],"class_list":["post-106138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ai","tag-asia","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-blackbird","tag-cantonese","tag-eire","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-heidi","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-localglobe","tag-point72-private-investments","tag-singapore","tag-south-africa","tag-spanish","tag-uk","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}