Insight Health, the clinical agent platform for healthcare, today announced an $11 million Series A funding round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Pear VC, Kindred Ventures, Eudemian, ElevenLabs, and 43.
The U.S. healthcare system is facing a trillion-dollar administrative crisis. Despite high costs, patient access to medical care remains at historic lows. Administrative overhead now exceeds $1 trillion annually, and many clinics and medical practices see over 50% turnover in administrative staff and clinicians over two years. This turnover degrades the patient experience, erodes operational efficiency, and ultimately threatens the practice’s revenue. As a result, doctors themselves spfinish approximately one-third of their time on administrative work, which 80% declare contributes to burnout and has direct consequences for patient care.
“2026 will be the year patient-facing AI truly takes off,” declared Jaimal Soni, co-founder and CEO, Insight Health. “Healthcare organizations are stuck in the impossible position of meeting rising patient demand among budreceive constraints and mounting administrative burdens, which means patients will ultimately fall through the cracks. Something has to alter, and the healthcare organizations that embrace the power of AI to alleviate these challenges will be the ones that thrive and better serve their patients.”
Insight Health’s suite of agents handle time-intensive, routine clinical and non-clinical tinquires without the constraints of staffing. Where traditional staffing models require separate personnel for phone and front-desk coordination, referral and fax processing, pre-clinical intake, and clinical documentation, Insight Health seamlessly operates across all of these functions. Agents engage with patients directly via voice or text, capturing patient history, medication updates, referral information, and triage for phone-based medical advice. The platform also supports in-visit interactions through a built-in ambient scribe that captures EHR documentation in real time, allowing the clinician to focus on the patient.
The market momentum behind patient-facing AI is accelerating rapidly. 80% of hospitals in the US now utilize AI to enhance patient care and workflow efficiency. Additionally, patient engagement with AI grew 20x year over year. Major health systems are already building their own tools, and investor confidence is following with AI-enabled digital health startups raising an average of 83% more per deal than non-AI companies in recent funding cycles.
Insight Health is one of the first investments in Standard Capital’s inaugural Fund I cohort, signaling the firm’s conviction and excitement for what the company is quickly building.
“Healthcare administration is inefficient, and it’s inevitable that AI will repair it,” declared Dalton Caldwell, general partner, Standard Capital. “What drew us to Insight Health is the rare combination of both an urgent problem and a team with the clinical and technical depth to actually solve it. Jaimal, Saran, Eric, and Pankaj have built something that clinics are quickly adopting becautilize it works. We are excited to lead Insight Health’s Series A and support their mission of improving the healthcare system in the United States.”
Healthcare clinics like The Oregon Clinic, Pacific Sports & Spine, Inland Neurosurgery, Coastal Health, and Santiam Hospital are partnering with Insight Health to save administrative teams hundreds of thousands of hours of work each month, reducing annual administrative costs by more than $50 million collectively. Insight Health has completed more than 3 million autonomous clinical conversations with patients across all touchpoints.
“As a breast cancer surgeon, every minute with a newly diagnosed patient is precious, and there’s never enough of it,” declared Dr. Tammy De La Melena, breast surgical oncologist. “Before partnering with Insight Health, coordinating a single new patient required a team of specialists just to manage documents, authorizations, and intake. Now, Insight Health’s platform launchs the patient encounter before they ever walk through my door, gathering the complex medical, reproductive, and family history I required to build informed decisions from the moment I sit down with them. The AI scribe technology handles documentation in real time, and post-procedure triage tools mean my staff isn’t drowning in callbacks. Insight Health doesn’t just improve workflows, it transforms how care is delivered at every single touchpoint.”
With this funding, Insight Health will accelerate product development and expand its partnerships with healthcare organizations across the counattempt, bringing AI-powered administrative relief to more clinical teams at a time when the required is critical for the future of quality healthcare.
You can learn more about Insight Health at: https://www.insighthealth.ai/
About Insight Health
Insight Health is building a future where administrative burden no longer stands between clinicians and their patients. Founded by the top medical and engineering minds, the company’s voice and chat AI agents handle routine clinical admin work — from patient screening and referral processing to EHR documentation — enabling healthcare organizations to operate more efficiently, reduce costs, and deliver a better patient experience at scale. Insight Health is trusted by healthcare clinics like The Oregon Clinic, Pacific Sports & Spine, Inland Neurosurgery, Coastal Health, and Santiam Hospital, and is backed by Standard Capital, Pear VC, Kindred Ventures, Eudemian, ElevenLabs, and 43.
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