Hospitals all over Europe are facing tougher times. While patient numbers continue to rise, staff shortages are worsening, leaving doctors, nurses, and administrative teams overstretched. Much of the pressure does not stem from medical complexity but from the growing volume of coordination, documentation, and communication tasks that quietly consume clinical time. Brussels-based startup Mindoo believes the answer lies in turning artificial intelligence into a reliable, operational workforce rather than an experimental add-on.
A €5M Seed Round to Scale Agentic AI
The Belgian health tech company has raised €5M in seed funding to accelerate its vision of agent-based automation for hospitals. The round was led by 6 Degrees Capital (6DC), with participation from Syndicate One and a group of strategic angel investors. According to CEO and co-founder Gauthier Willemse, this is Mindoo’s first institutional round and is structured as an unpriced SAFE, in line with Y Combinator standards. Prior to this, the company had only received a small non-dilutive grant from the City of Antwerp.
Built by a Doctor and an Engineer
Mindoo was founded by Willemse, a practicing physician, together with CTO Bart Lens, an experienced engineer. The idea emerged directly from Willemse’s experience inside hospital wards, where highly trained clinicians spend hours on repetitive administrative tasks that are essential but inefficient.
“What I saw was that these tasks are necessary but largely automatable,” said Willemse. “A good intern gathers patient information, structures it, and prepares the administrative groundwork so clinicians can focus on decisions and care. Agentic AI makes that scalable.”
AI That Fits Hospital Reality
Instead of building a single-purpose tool, Mindoo has developed a platform that allows hospitals to deploy multiple AI-powered agents that operate inside existing workflows. The company’s philosophy is that healthcare workers should not have to adapt to technology. Technology must adapt to healthcare.
Hospitals can configure agents with their own rules, protocols, languages, and specialties. These agents integrate directly with modern electronic health record systems, ensuring predictability, governance, and trust in environments where errors can have serious consequences.
“We designed Mindoo so healthcare organisations can deploy agents that behave predictably in real-world settings,” said Lens. “That’s how AI becomes operational, not experimental.”
Four Core Agents for Everyday Work
Mindoo currently offers four main agents. A receptionist agent manages routine patient messages and registrations. A pre-visit agent collects structured medical histories ahead of appointments. A scribe agent drafts clinical notes, letters, and medical orders. A follow-up agent supports post-visit communication and care pathways.
Each agent can be customised to local workflows and medical specialties, allowing hospitals to automate routine tasks without disrupting how teams already work.
Standing Apart From Point Solutions
While AI adoption in healthcare is accelerating, many existing tools focus narrowly on transcription or ambient note-taking. Solutions like Nuance Dragon Medical and newer ambient scribe startups improve documentation but do not cover the full patient journey.
Mindoo differentiates itself by offering a comprehensive agent suite that spans intake, documentation, and follow-up, combined with deep workflow configurability. Rather than a point solution, the platform acts as an extensible workforce layer that hospitals can gradually expand.
Early Traction and Team Growth
Mindoo is already live in hospitals in Belgium and Germany, supporting both clinical and administrative teams across multiple specialities. The founding team currently consists of one doctor and one engineer, a balance the company plans to maintain as it grows. Upcoming hires include additional physicians, senior engineers, and deployment specialists, with a strong emphasis on diversity across gender and nationality.
Becoming Healthcare’s AI Workforce Platform
The new funding will be used to further strengthen the platform, bring the four core agents into full production across more specialties, and scale the team as hospital demand grows.
“Our ambition is to become the agentic AI healthcare workforce platform,” said Willemse. “A system where hospitals can design, deploy, and govern AI agents as a true extension of their workforce.”
Investors see the opportunity as structural rather than short-term. “Automated workflows will become essential healthcare infrastructure,” said Lucas Stoops, Partner at 6 Degrees Capital. As European hospitals are forced to do more with fewer resources, Mindoo is betting that quietly working AI agents will soon be as indispensable as traditional clinical tools.