If you’ve ever seen doctors and nurses buried in paperwork, you’re not alone. With Europe heading toward a 1 million healthcare worker shortfall by 2030, the administrative overload is only getting worse. Recare steps in with AI that takes the pain out of documentation and stitches together hospital IT systems that rarely talk to each other.
Already, two-thirds of German hospitals and 26,000 care facilities are on board.
Now, the Berlin-based SaaS team just landed €37M in growth funding, led by DNV (who’s now their biggest backer) and joined by CIBC Innovation Banking. The goal is to roll out AI agents that cut paperwork for hospitals and nursing homes, and fuel international expansion.
AI workflows: the new backbone of healthcare?
Recare’s story starts with CEO Maximilian Greschke, who saw firsthand how much time clinicians lost to inefficient paperwork while working in healthcare ops. In 2017, he decided to fix it.
Recare aims to make AI-orchestrated workflows the foundation of healthcare, starting with discharge and aftercare, and expanding to full hospital coordination across Europe, especially in areas facing severe staffing shortages.
How does it work? Recare’s AI agent plugs into hospital IT, turns messy PDFs, scans, and notes into structured data, and then auto-generates letters, protocols, and handoffs, keeping departments in sync. Other features include navigating Germany’s strict compliance requirements, providing end-to-end workflow solutions rather than single-task tools, and serving mid-sized providers often overlooked by larger competitors.
While Epic and Cerner offer all-in-one EHRs, and Nuance provides dictation without coordination, Recare zooms in on the real pain point: the tangled discharge process in Continental Europe.
So, what’s next for Recare?
The new funding will support the nationwide launch of the AI agent in Germany, followed by expansion across Europe as staffing shortages intensify.
Recare aims to deliver measurable time savings, enabling clinicians to care for more patients as public health systems face increasing pressure, and will scale through DNV’s global health network.
