Voice assistant startup Suki raises $55M
MedCity News December 9, 2021
The company is working on a voice assistant to lighten clinicians’ documentation burdens by automating some of that work. It faces competition from large companies like Nuance, which was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year.
Dozens of startups are looking for ways to lighten physicians’ documentation workload, either by making health record systems more user-friendly, or by automating portions of the process. One company, Redwood City-based Suki, is taking the approach of building a voice assistant for physicians.
The startup recently closed a $55 million series C round led by March Capital. Philips Ventures also joined as an investor.
Suki’s voice assistant works somewhat similar to Amazon’s Alexa, in that clinicians can use a wake word, “Suki,” to instruct the...