From: Anna Heim, TechCrunch,30/12/24

Brazilian startup Carecode is coming out of stealth with an ambition to reduce healthcare costs and improve medical outcomes by developing AI agents that focus on tasks that happen before and after a medical appointment — and would typically be run by a call center.

“We tend to think that only the moment with the doctor is what matters, but after having spent 10 years in healthcare I realized that those moments [around the appointment] are as important as the medical encounter,” CEO Thomaz Srougi (pictured right in the above image) told TechCrunch.

Srougi comes from a family of doctors, but he’s not one himself; his firsthand knowledge of healthcare comes from founding dr.consulta, a private medical service provider scaleup that’s raised some $168 million in funding, and where he remains chairman.

Carecode is still early in its fundraising journey, but already has an impressive cap table: Its $4.3 million pre-seed round was mostly funded by a16z and QED, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst, KDX Ventures , K50 Ventures, and Latitud Ventures, as well as high-profile figures from Brazil’s tech scene, including Nubank founder David Vélez.

Venture capital in Latin America is still going through a “startup winter,” but — as this pre-seed raise underscores — there is still funding for entrepreneurs with track records like Srougi and his co-founder, Pedro Magalhães, a former CTO at several other startups, including BEES Bank Brasil and Zé Delivery.

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