Oska Health, a hybrid care
provider combining personal health coaches with AI, has raised €11 million in seed funding to scale its continuous care model for high-risk, chronically ill
patients. The round was led by Capricorn Partners and SwissHealth Ventures,
with participation from Revent, Calm Storm, LBBW Venture Capital, BMH, GoHub
Ventures, and Aurum Impact.
Chronic diseases present
significant challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. Although medical care
is generally well organised, gaps often remain between doctor visits, when many
patients struggle to sustain behaviour changes that support better health
outcomes. Around 50 per cent of chronically ill patients do not take medications as
prescribed, and about 80 per cent do not maintain long-term lifestyle changes.
Oska Health aims to
address these gaps by providing personalised digital support between medical
appointments. The company focuses on multimorbid patients – individuals living
with multiple chronic conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD),
diabetes, and hypertension – affecting millions across Europe. Its model combines
human coaching with AI-enabled care delivery to support patients at scale.
Certified health coaches
provide continuous support via video calls, chat, and a dedicated digital
therapy app, helping patients with questions related to nutrition, physical
activity, and medication. The goal is to translate physicians’ recommendations into
everyday practice, strengthen health literacy, and reduce complications and
avoidable hospitalisations.
CEO and co-founder Niklas Best emphasised that effective chronic care is driven by everyday habits rather
than occasional medical consultations:
We combine human support with AI to
close this gap. Our technology supports our coaches, reduces administrative
burden, and makes high-quality chronic care scalable.
The new capital will be
used to accelerate the expansion of Oska’s AI-powered care infrastructure,
which augments care teams and has supported chronically ill patients for more
than three years.