Barcelona-based Health Force has raised €4.2 million in seed funding to accelerate deployment of enterprise-grade AI agents that log into a hospital's existing systems and complete administrative work end to end — no new integrations, live in six weeks. The round was led by Dutch impact investor LUMO Labs with participation from Step Venture, Next Tier Ventures, Target Global and Calm/Storm, the company announced on September 17, 2026.
AI agents for hospital operations
Health Force targets the operational bottleneck between hospitals and payers: prior-authorization checks, insurance claims processing, quality reporting and clinical-trial paperwork that consume large blocks of clinician and back-office time. The startup's pre-trained agents authenticate into legacy hospital IT systems and process workflows on the same clicks and screens a human user would.
The company says it now handles more than 200,000 patient cases per year across Italian hospital groups including Humanitas and Gruppo San Donato, and has extended into Portugal for national quality reporting. Next on the roadmap are quality reporting, resource optimization and clinical-trial operations at broader European scale.
Founders' pitch
Founded in Vienna in 2022 and now run from Barcelona with an operations hub in Milan, Health Force was co-founded by CEO Fadi Haddad and Chief Product Officer Dr. Juan Suárez. Haddad framed the wedge in blunt terms: "Hospitals need work completed, not dashboards. We offer pre-trained AI agents that log into existing systems and complete real work."
Why LUMO Labs led
LUMO Labs partner Jorge Blasco said the fund sees the hospital back office as a durable market for agentic AI: "Solutions automating repetitive processes securely and reliably are increasingly important for hospitals seeking efficiency improvements." Target Global partner Peter Roos added that the team "solved what many considered impossible: automating hospital operations in Europe's complex, legacy systems."
Europe's healthcare AI wedge
Health Force joins a cluster of European agentic-AI companies trying to solve staffing shortages without ripping out core hospital software. It follows a wave of AI-agent deployments in regulated industries and lands the same week U.S. states such as Connecticut moved to restrict autonomous AI decision-making in health insurance, and as broader agent platforms including Anthropic's Claude Cowork reshape the enterprise workflow layer.
Reporting based on coverage from EU-Startups, TechFundingNews and Health Force.