Sifted published a piece called “12 hospital tech startups to watch, according to VCs.” It’s framed as an investor survey, and it focuses on hospital-facing companies that VCs think are worth paying attention to.
The theme of the piece is well grounded: European healthcare systems are getting squeezed by spending pressure, ageing populations, and staff burnout, and providers are looking for tech that actually eases the load.
Hospitals are not short on “digital health.” They already have plenty of software. What they do not have enough of is software that helps the day run smoother for the people doing the work. If a tool creates extra steps, extra screens, or extra chasing, it’s dead on arrival. The hospital tech we care about lives in the messy middle: where real workflows happen, where bottlenecks form, where handoffs break, where small delays stack up into big ones. Those problems don’t show up in slide decks. They show up at 2am when a ward is short-staffed and the day is already off the rails. Our focus at VitVio is making hospital operations easier to run and easier to understand, using real-world activity inside clinical environments. The goal is practical: help teams see what’s happening, reduce avoidable friction, and support better decisions without adding admin work.
If you’re tracking where hospital tech is going next, Sifted’s list is a useful snapshot of what investors are leaning into right now.