Berlin based healthtech company voize has closed a $50 million Series A round to reduce administrative workload for nurses through an AI voice assistant. The financing is led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Redalpine and Y Combinator. The new capital will support international expansion across Europe and into the United States while advancing voize’s AI platform that aims to return time to frontline care.
Founding and Mission
Voize was founded in 2020 by twin brothers Fabio and Marcel Schmidberger together with CTO Erik Ziegler after their grandfather moved into a nursing home. The founders saw how much of each shift nurses spent on documentation rather than direct patient care and set out to redesign that experience. Their stated mission is straightforward, to free nurses from bureaucracy so they can focus again on patients and human connection.
Administrative Burden in Nursing
Across Europe and the United States, nurses can spend up to 30 percent of their working hours on documentation, including forms, reports and data entry at computers. This burden is estimated to translate into more than 5.5 billion hours and $246 billion in labor costs annually, at a time when health systems face a deepening workforce crisis. The World Health Organization projects a global shortfall of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, and both Europe and the United States already report major gaps in healthcare staffing.
Technology Built for the Care Environment
Voize’s platform allows nurses to document care through speech on a smartphone instead of typing, with AI automatically structuring and recording information in real time. The company has developed proprietary, domain specific language models in house that recognize medical terminology, understand regional dialects and support non native speakers. Unlike many AI tools that rely on cloud based large language models, voize’s system can run locally on devices, works offline and is designed to meet strict data protection rules including GDPR compliance.
Adoption and Measured Impact
According to the company, more than 1,100 care facilities in Germany and Austria now use voize, and over 75,000 nurses rely on the tool in their daily work. A study conducted with the Charité in Berlin reported roughly 30 percent time savings on documentation, which translates into more time at the bedside and less time in front of screens. Some care providers have begun highlighting voize in job listings as a recruitment advantage, signaling that digital tools that reduce paperwork are becoming part of the employment value proposition.
Investor Backing and Growth Strategy
Balderton Capital, which has backed multiple European technology and AI companies, describes voize as a product built by listening closely to nurses and removing friction from their day. General Partner Daniel Waterhouse notes that care homes are already using the AI companion as a differentiator in hiring and emphasizes that the technology is designed to restore, not replace, human care. With the Series A funding, voize plans to deepen its technology stack, expand in European markets and enter the US, positioning its platform as a core infrastructure layer for documentation in nursing and potentially broader healthcare settings.
Voize’s $50 million Series A round underscores growing investor conviction that targeted AI can help address structural challenges in healthcare, starting with documentation overload. By combining purpose built language models, offline capability and a workflow tailored to nursing, the company seeks to return meaningful time to frontline staff in a system under pressure. If voize can replicate its early results as it scales beyond the German speaking market, it may become a reference point for how AI is deployed safely and pragmatically in critical care environments.