AI-operated physiotherapy clinic Flok Health has raised $12.5m (£9.5m) in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Albion VC.
Flok Health’s pioneering clinic delivers entire healthcare pathways autonomously without requiring human oversight. The tech is currently available to NHS patients, offering on-demand appointments for back pain via a mobile app with no waitlist.
The digital clinic manipulates real footage of a human physiotherapist to simulate the experience of a live video call appointment that responds in real-time to what a patient says and does.
So far, the AI clinic has been exclusively available to patients suffering with back pain. Flok Health will use the new funding to accelerate scaling its existing back pain service across the UK, while also expanding its clinical and geographical scope.
The AI technology is currently being trained in other high volume care pathways including hip and knee pain and women’s pelvic health conditions, with all three of these new services due to launch in the UK this year.
The investment round included participation from existing backers Eka VC and Form Ventures, as well as new investors Mercia Ventures.
“AI is a generational opportunity to close that supply-demand gap and ensure that anyone, anywhere, can get the best possible care whenever they need it,” says Finn Stevenson, co-founder and CEO at Flok Health. “We’re particularly proud to already be scaling our AI MSK clinic in the NHS, and seeing incredible results for patients and services.
“This new funding will allow us to more rapidly scale our existing back pain service, and to expand the scope of our AI-operated clinic to fully manage new high volume clinical pathways and new international markets.”
