Voize has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from HV Capital, Redalpine, and Y Combinator. The Berlin-based company provides an AI voice companion that automates documentation for nurses and caregivers.
The funding will support expansion in Europe and entry into the United States. Voize is currently used by more than 75,000 nurses across 1,100 care facilities in Germany and Austria.
The AI companion listens as nurses work, understands their notes, and automates documentation. The system integrates with Electronic Health Records and runs locally on smartphones without requiring constant internet connection. Voize reports 99.2% accuracy.
Nurses lose 30% of their time to administrative work, costing $246 billion in labor across the United States and Europe, according to the company. The WHO predicts a global deficit of 4.5 million nurses by 2030. Europe is short 1.2 million healthcare workers, while the United States has an expected deficit of up to 450,000 nurses annually.
“Nurses enter the profession to care for people, and leave it because of all the admin work,” said Fabio Schmidberger, co-founder and CEO of Voize. “At voize, we’re building AI that redefines what it means to care, where technology works in the background, and people come first.”
Voize’s proprietary AI models are developed in-house and designed to capture medical language, understand regional dialects, and support non-native speakers. The system runs on-device, enabling offline functionality and data protection.
Nurses using Voize save up to 30% of their time each shift, according to the company. Care homes in Germany and Austria feature Voize in job advertisements.
“Nurses are the backbone of every healthcare system — yet too often, they’re overwhelmed by administrative tasks that pull them away from patients,” said Daniel Waterhouse, General Partner at Balderton. “voize recognized this disconnect and built a solution born from listening and understanding.”
Voize was founded in 2020 by twin brothers Fabio Schmidberger (CEO) and Marcel Schmidberger (COO), alongside Erik Ziegler (CTO). The founders were inspired by their grandfather’s experience in a nursing home, where they witnessed nurses losing time to administrative work.
