Heal Capital invests in Ditto

The Dutch healthtech start-up Ditto has closed a seed financing round of 7.6 million euros. The round is led by Heal Capital, the Berlin-based healthtech fund. Rubio Impact Ventures and Optiverder are also involved.

Ditto is developing an AI-supported patient app that automatically translates doctor's consultations and medical documents into easy-to-understand language. If necessary, also into the user's native language. According to the company, the app has already been downloaded around 100,000 times since its launch in summer 2025.

Patients often do not understand their own treatment

The approach addresses a real communication problem in the healthcare sector. According to studies, many patients only understand medical information to a limited extent or forget large parts of a doctor's consultation immediately after the appointment.

While numerous AI start-ups are currently developing tools for documentation or diagnostics for doctors, Ditto deliberately focuses on the patient side.

Hundreds of start-ups are already developing AI that supports doctors with documentation and decision-making. Ditto is building the equivalent for patients.

Dr. Lucas Mittelmeier, investor at Heal Capital

Especially in light of the electronic patient record (ePA), it is clear that digitalization alone is not enough if patients still do not understand the content.

AI translates medicine into everyday language

The app enables users to have medical consultations and medical documents analyzed and prepared in an understandable way using AI. The aim is to better support patients in therapy decisions, treatments and complex care pathways. According to Ditto, it relies on a GDPR-compliant European infrastructure. The data remains with the patients and is not stored centrally. Medically sensitive content is also quality-assured by doctors.

Healthcare should be as intuitive as Google Maps.

Tobias Polak, Co-Founder

Heal Capital focuses on patient-centered AI

For Heal Capital, Ditto fits into a larger trend within the European healthtech market: AI should not only optimize processes in the background, but also change the user experience in healthcare itself. The fund, which is backed by companies in the healthcare industry, invests specifically in digital healthcare solutions with a European background.

Expansion into the DACH region ahead

The fresh capital will primarily flow into international expansion and new AI functions. The DACH region is a particular focus and, according to the company, should be developed by 2026.

In the long term, Ditto wants to become a central platform that patients and relatives can use to navigate complex healthcare systems.