Exciting news from our CEO, Tobi Olatunji MD! Read the latest scoop on our development and milestone.
Today we are excited to share that at Intron Health has raised $1.6M in pre-seed funding to revolutionise clinical speech recognition in developing countries, starting in Africa! This round was led by Microtraction with incredible support from Plug and Play Tech Center, Jaza Rift, Octopus Ventures, Africa Health Ventures, Openseed VC, Pi Campus, Alumni Angel, and BakerBridge Capital. We are so grateful to angel investors from Google, CLEAR Global, New York University, Assembly Investors, and Optum. We started out striving to digitise healthcare and streamline data entry. Our speech recognition platform, with an impressive 92% accuracy rate, has made a significant difference for doctors in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda by reducing documentation time by sevenfold. We are honoured to serve over 30 hospitals and improve care for more than 56,000 patients. With a robust dataset of over 3.5 million audio clips from 18k contributors in 29 countries, we've been able to train our algorithms for effective deployment across various regions. Our collaborations with Google Research, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Digital Square at PATH, alongside partners like NVIDIA and Hugging Face, are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. As we celebrate this milestone, we remain committed to harnessing the power of localised voice technology to revolutionise healthcare and explore new applications across different sectors. We are grateful to everyone that has supported us on this journey-- friends, family, current and previous team members, partners, collaborators, clients-- we couldn't do this without you. Thank you! Thanks also to Annie Njanja and TechCrunch for the excellent coverage. We’re hiring! #IntronHealth #GlobalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #healthtech #healthcare #ai #nlp #naturallanguageprocessing Andrew Bredenkamp, PhD. Nnaemeka Odo Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, FACP Innocent C. Jeff Dean Sewu-Steve T. Maria Rotilu Sion Hau Tilly Fleming Kirsten Connell Marco Trombetti Oluwatomisin Adebayo-Begun Wimbart Rowena Luk