Anima secures $12M in Series A led by Molten Ventures

Today care enablement healtech platform Anima, announced its oversubscribed $12 million Series A, led by Molten Ventures.

Clinics and healthcare professionals face severe financial constraints, inefficiencies, and burnout.

Founded in 2021 by Shun Pang (CEO and CTO) and Rachel Mumford (COO), Anima delivers a universal operating system that, for the first time, streamlines care at multiple levels — clinic, network, and region. A patient-facing app allows Anima to supercharge every stage of the care journey.

Crucially, Anima swiftly resolves 85 per cent of patient inquiries within a day, a vast improvement over the typical 11-14 day timeframe seen with standard practice.

Any authenticated stakeholder can collaborate in seconds in a real-time multiplayer dashboard, with a single source of patient truth, powered by a proprietary deep learning healthcare engine.

High abstraction APIs automate anything from document processing to medical consultations to automated generation of coded clinical notes.

Following a product update in December 2023, Anima has already halved the time practices spend on coding, processing and filing documents.

Anima launched its first paying clinics in September 2022 and is now deployed in over 150 NHS clinics in England that provide care to over 1.3 million people. 

Anima is led by experts with personal experiences with the healthcare system. Over 60 per cent of the team are former VC-backed founders.

The company participated in Y Combinator in Winter 2021.

Shun Pang, co-founder and CEO of Anima, commented: 

“We’re excited to bring Inga of Molten on our journey. From day one, it was clear that she shared our vision of care enablement, a thesis Inga and Molten have had for years.

“I’m deeply grateful for the special crew we have at Anima. This is a passion project—we’re building what we wish we had as doctors and patients. No one is here just to do a job. We all serve a greater purpose, and that’s why we’ll continue to move mountains.”

Existing investors Hummingbird Ventures, Amino Collective and Y Combinator also participated in the round, and there is new participation from angels, including Sidar Sahin, founder of Peak Games.

Inga Deakin, Investor, Molten Ventures added: 

“Software and AI in healthcare is a rapidly growing multi-$billion sector, but many solutions take time to integrate and realise their potential.

A key reason why Anima is growing rapidly is that it can directly and immediately have an impact: to improve operations and efficiency to benefit patients, healthcare teams, and healthcare systems. This team understands the relevant workflows and the needs of patients and healthcare workers and is building a large, scalable engine for change.”

In the coming year, the company will release the next version of the software (Anima 1.5), which will enable unprecedented automation of front- and back-office workloads and even greater data interoperability to support digitally integrated care in multiple geographies.

 This Series A funding will enable Anima to accelerate deployment to tens of millions of patients and healthcare professionals worldwide.

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