Hospitals across Europe are struggling to keep pace with rising patient numbers and a growing staff shortage. Many workflows remain uncaptured or incomplete because teams lack the capacity to manage them. Here’s where Brussels-based Mindoo addresses the problem.
“We designed Mindoo so healthcare organisations can deploy agents that follow their rules, integrate with their systems and behave predictably in real-world environments. This is how AI becomes operational, not experimental,” added Bart Lens, CTO and co-founder.
As a result, the Belgian company has raised €5M in a seed funding round backed by 6DC (6 Degrees Capital), Syndicate One, and a group of strategic angel investors.
Gauthier Willemse, Mindoo’s co-founder and CEO, told TFN, “This is our first institutional round, and it is structured as an unpriced SAFE, YC-style. Prior to this, we only received a small non-dilutive grant from the City of Antwerp to get started.”
How Mindoo helps hospitals?
Led by Gauthier Willemse, Mindoo offers a platform that lets hospitals run AI-powered agents to handle everyday tasks that slow teams down.
These agents can manage patient intake, draft clinical notes, handle follow-up communication, and support front-desk operations. Unlike one-size-fits-all tools, the company’s agents are configurable.
Willemse shared with TFN, “I started Mindoo as a physician who experienced firsthand how much clinical time is consumed by repetitive, administrative and coordination tasks. What struck me was that these tasks are essential, but largely predictable and automatable. The first mental model was simple. What a good intern does is go to the patient, capture the story, structure information, and prepare the administrative groundwork so clinicians can focus on decisions and care. Agentic AI makes that scalable.”
Hospitals can adapt them to match their own protocols, specialities, and languages. This helps AI integrate into existing workflows rather than forcing teams to change how they work.
Mindoo currently provides four main agents that hospitals can use and customise:
- A receptionist agent who handles routine patient messages and registrations
- A pre-visit agent that collects structured medical history before appointments
- A scribe agent that drafts notes, letters, and clinical orders
- A follow-up agent that supports post-visit communication and care pathways
“We learned very quickly that workflows in healthcare cannot be adapted to a product. The product has to adapt to existing workflows. That is why Mindoo lets hospital teams configure and run their own agents, so automation fits naturally into how they already work,” Willemse.
Direct competitors such as Nuance Dragon Medical and Ambient Scribes (e.g., Nabla) focus on transcription but lack Mindoo’s full agent suite for intake/follow-ups and deep workflow configurability.
What about diversity?
When we asked about diversity, Willemse noted, “Today, the founding team consists of one medical doctor and one engineer. We aim to keep that balance between doctors and engineers (our next hires include three physicians and several senior engineers). We are also intentionally hiring across different nationalities and genders.”
What’s next?
Mindoo is already live in hospitals in Belgium and Germany and integrates with modern electronic health record systems. Willemse concluded, “Our ambition is to become the healthcare agentic AI workforce platform. A system where hospitals and care teams can design, deploy and govern AI agents as a true extension of their workforce.”
The funding will help the company to strengthen its platform, bring its four core agents into full production across multiple medical specialities, and grow its team. The company plans to hire more engineers, clinical experts, and deployment specialists as demand from hospitals increases.
“We invested in Mindoo because the founders understand healthcare from the inside and have built a platform that lets hospitals adopt AI responsibly. The opportunity ahead is enormous. Automated workflows will become essential infrastructure for healthcare,” added Lucas Stoops, Partner at 6 Degrees Capital
