What you should know:
– VitvioAI-Powered Platform Designed to Autonomously Coordinate Surgical Staff and Flag Procedure Delays Secures $8M in Seed Funding Round Led by bekventures and united by LDV Capital, balnord.
– The funding brings the company’s total funding to $10 million and will be used to aggressively scale the platform into US hospitals.
The central problem: costly surgical inefficiency
Hospitals face a perfect storm of rising operating costs, staffing shortages and increasing patient demand. At the epicenter of this financial strain is the operating room. Inefficiencies in resource utilization, scheduling, and case rotation contribute approximately $1,800 in unplanned costs per surgery, which translates to approximately $1.4 million annually for a single operating room.
Traditional perioperative management relies on manual tracking and fragmented systems that do not provide actionable information in real time. VitVio was founded to directly address this gap by digitizing the surgical environment to provide the efficiency and financial visibility that hospital leaders desperately need.
How VitVio AI digitizes the operating room
VitVio’s platform leverages advanced technology to create an “intelligent system” that eliminates administrative burden and organizes human workflows autonomously.
- 3D scanning in real time: The platform uses artificial intelligence, computer vision and environmental sensing to digitize operating rooms in real time, capturing granular data about who does what, when and where. All patient data is anonymized at the point of capture and handled with end-to-end encryption.
- Coordination of Autonomous Personnel: AI agents automate routine tasks, such as automatically recording surgical phases (incision, wound closure, etc.). The system uses this information in real time to autonomously coordinate staff, ensuring they are aligned and informed throughout the perioperative process.
- Predictive operations: The platform issues dynamic alerts on deviations from standard procedure and provides real-time estimates for case completion. This predictive capability allows perioperative leaders to adjust resources and schedules instantly, reducing costly turnover delays.
- Actionable information: By integrating a secure dashboard into hospital information systems, VitVio provides clear data on utilization, case flow and resource allocation, allowing hospitals to identify bottlenecks and strengthen scheduling accuracy, ultimately reducing waste.
