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AI hold huge promise for health care , but not just on the aesculapian side ; many startup are convinced machine learning - found systems can do a wad of good on contiguous tasks such as appointment scheduling and confirmation .
Brazilian startupCarecodeis among these AI believers . It ’s coming out of stealth with an ambitiousness to reduce health care costs and improve aesculapian event by developing AI agents that focus on tasks that happen before and after a medical engagement — and would typically be flow by a call center .
“ We tend to think that only the moment with the doctor is what matters , but after having spent 10 years in health care I realized that those minute [ around the appointment ] are as important as the medical face-off , ” CEO Thomaz Srougi ( pictured the right way in the above range of a function ) told TechCrunch .
Srougi come from a sept of Dr. , but he ’s not one himself ; his firsthand noesis of healthcare comes fromfounding Dr. Consulta , a private aesculapian service provider scaleup that ’s bring up some $ 168 million in funding , and where he remains chairman .
Carecode is still early in its fundraising journey , but already has an telling cap mesa : Its $ 4.3 million pre - seed round was mostly funded by a16z and QED , with engagement from Endeavor Catalyst , KDX Ventures , K50 Ventures , and Latitud Ventures , as well as high-pitched - visibility figures from Brazil ’s tech picture , include Nubank founder David Vélez .
speculation cap in Latin America is stillgoing through a “ startup winter,”but — as this pre - seed raise underline — there is still fund for entrepreneur with track records like Srougi and his Centennial State - founder , Pedro Magalhães , a former CTO at several other startups , including BEES Bank Brasil and Zé Delivery .
“ I think that calculate a fate for major VCs , particularly when the reality is upside down , ” Srougi suggested , also take note that a16z partner Gabriel Vasquez helped age the idea for Carecode and move the startup from planning to the execution phase .
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Srougi is also drawing on relationships he ’s built during his career to find cooperator that can test Carecode . Early answer with one partner it ca n’t name aspect hopeful , per the startup , which said the results propose its AI agents can do most of the work of a typical health care call sum for a fraction of the price , and even go one stair beyond by proactively filling canceled slots while impart employees to take precaution of the most complex cases .
Importantly for Brazil , Carecode meets users where they are , which is unremarkably on WhatsApp — where it supports both textbook and audio content . “ That ’s really significant , because older individuals and the legal age of low - income individuals favour to send WhatsApp audio instead of typecast , ” Srougi say , adding that spokesperson calls are also on the roadmap .
These location pinch are one aspect that gain Carecode unlike from U.S. benchmarks such asSierra , the AI inauguration co - founded by Bret Taylor .
Another difference is Carecode ’s erect direction . According to QED partner and psyche of Brazil , Camila Vieira Fernandes , this give the inauguration an edge over horizontal approaches which “ often necessitate multiple solution to achieve subpar result , negatively impact customer experience and leaving significant economic value untapped . ”
grocery store size can be a restriction to a vertical example , but health care in Brazil is n’t on the nose a modest niche , and neither is the trouble Carecode is sound after . According to Srougi , health care companies in Brazil spend 50 % of their revenue on physical contact center and administrative payroll — some $ 100 billion annually .
Srougi and his team believe that going vertical in a marketplace with specific requirement like healthcare will assist Carecode build a fosse compare to more generalist competitors , but the startup could also diversify later on . “ We may be able to go in the hereafter to insurance , for case animation insurance and other sectors related to healthcare . We want to tap into payments . We may tap into funding . So all of that gain from health care , ” he added .
This story was update to name more participating investors .
