Konko AI, an artificial intelligence platform automating patient workflows for healthcare clinics and hospitals across Latin America, has secured $6 million in a funding round.
Hi Ventures led the investment round with participation from LifeX Ventures, SquareOne Capital, GroundUp Ventures, Phoenix Fund, and angels from Harvard, MIT, Google, and Tesla.
The startup is deploying fresh funds to hire software engineers to scale and accelerate its product development and sales efforts, mainly in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Colombia.
Co-founder and CEO Jean-Marc Goguikian witnessed his wife, Dr. Juliana Vallejo, spend years training to save lives, only to be consumed by paperwork instead of patient care. He partnered with Harvard classmate and AI expert Michael Haddad to create Konko AI and give doctors more time.
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Konko AI launched in Costa Rica to help overwhelmed clinics with their workloads. Its first deployment was at the clinic Goguikian founded with his wife. From there, it expanded to Mexico and Colombia. In one year, Konko AI has become the most widely used platform in its category, with 2 million+ patient interactions managed across 90 healthcare institutions and 60 specialties in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica – 75% are handled end-to-end by AI.
AI-driven patient communication automation startups have raised a significant amount of funding so far this year.
More recently, MiiHealth AI, a digital health startup developing DAINA (Dynamic AI Intake and Navigation Agent), an agentic AI medical assistant purpose-built to automate patient intake and follow-up, has closed a $2.8 million seed funding round led by Russell Glass, former CEO of Headspace and founder of Arteria Capital.
In another deal, AI-powered patient access startup Assort Health raised $120 million in Series C funding led by Menlo Ventures. The Series C round values the company at $1.2 billion.