{"id":192617,"date":"2025-06-17T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192617\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:49:18","slug":"nabla-raises-70-million-as-ambient-scribe-market-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192617\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabla raises $70 million as ambient scribe market heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-bio\">Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech\u2019s promise. He\u2019s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/health-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STAT Health Tech newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence developer Nabla has raised $70 million as the company looks to expand its software that automates clinical note-taking to additional applications, like billing.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraise, led by HV Capital, follows rapid adoption of ambient scribe technology among health systems hoping to address clinician burnout. Since 2023, it has been among the best-funded applications of AI in health care, including substantial raises from Nabla competitors: Abridge announced it raised $250 million in February, and both Ambience and Suki announced $70 million fundraises in 2024. Microsoft-owned Nuance is also a competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Nabla was founded in 2018 by a team  including engineers Alex LeBrun and Martin Raison, who previously worked at Facebook, which <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/01\/05\/facebook-wit-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired<\/a> their company, Wit.ai, in 2015. \u201cWe were seeking redemption from selling ads,\u201d LeBrun, the company\u2019s CEO, told STAT. They turned to health care as a way to apply their AI skills to \u201csomething useful.\u201d (Before Wit.ai, LeBrun\u2019s company VirtuOz was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/01\/10\/in-our-inbox-a-memo-that-says-nuance-has-bought-virtuoz-to-ramp-up-its-enterprise-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired<\/a> by Nuance.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 plus in-depth analysis, newsletters, premium events, and news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[1942,105,78680,4348,2207,3322,31173,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-tech","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-hospitals","13":"tag-startups","14":"tag-stat","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700679586757269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}