Inspired by their grandfather’s care journey, voize’s founders raise $50M for AI that empowers nurses

Berlin-based voize secures $50M to scale its AI platform that helps nurses reduce documentation time and focus more on patient care.

Berlin-based voize, a company building the AI companion for nursing care, has raised $50M (approximately €43M) in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Redalpine and Y Combinator.

Balderton Capital is a venture firm that boasts over 20 years of experience in supporting Europe’s top founders from Seed to IPO.

The VC have both early and growth funds and invests across the technology sector, with a proven track record backing AI, fintech, B2B SaaS, digital health, mobility, gaming and marketplace companies.

Daniel Waterhouse, General Partner at Balderton, says, “Nurses are the backbone of every healthcare system — yet too often, they’re overwhelmed by administrative tasks that pull them away from patients. voize recognised this disconnect and built a solution born from listening and understanding. Their AI companion doesn’t replace human care; it restores it, removing friction from documentation and empowering nurses to spend more time where they’re needed most. Care homes are even using it as a recruitment tool, such is the power of what voize has built.”

The investment will accelerate the German company’s expansion in Europe and entry into the US.

The company will use the capital to advance its mission to eliminate administrative burden in healthcare, giving nurses more time for what matters most: care.

The announcement comes as the company witnessed3× year-on-year growth.

Tackling the global nursing shortage

The global nursing shortage has reached a crisis point. The WHO predicts a global deficit of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, as ageing populations and rising care demands stretch teams thin.

According to the report, Europe alone is short 1.2 million healthcare workers, whilst the US has an expected deficit of up to 450,000 nurses a year. Nurses lose 30 per cent of their time to admin work, costing $246B in labour across the US and Europe.

voize: Transforming nursing care

Twin brothers Fabio (CEO) and Marcel Schmidberger (COO), along with Erik Ziegler (CTO), started Voize after their grandfather entered a nursing home.

They saw how much time nurses spent on paperwork and wanted to create a solution that would allow them to focus more on patient care.

The company’s proprietary AI models are purpose-built for nursing and developed entirely in-house.

Its voice-based platform helps frontline health workers not only capture and manage patient information but also automate routine workflows, documentation and communication, giving nurses time back for direct patient care.

They accurately capture complex medical language, understand regional dialects, and support non-native speakers.

Unlike most AI models, voize’s system is so efficient that it can run locally on smartphones, with no constant internet connection required.

At present, over 1,100 care facilities in Germany and Austria use the company’s technology, and more than 75,000 nurses save up to 30 per cent of their time each shift.

Fabio Schmidberger, co-founder and CEO of voize, says, “Nurses enter the profession to care for people, and leave it because of all the admin work. For too long, they’ve had little technology designed to truly support them. At voize, we’re building AI that redefines what it means to care, where technology works in the background, and people come first. Seeing this come to life already across care homes and hospitals and hearing how nurses rediscover the joy in their jobs has been incredible.”