Joey raises £1.4M pre-seed to rebuild paediatric care around parents
What's the deal? JoeyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a UK paediatric care startup, has raised £1.4 million ($1.4 million) in pre-seed funding. The round was backed by ZincDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → VC through a follow-on investment, SyndicateRoom's AccessDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Innovate UKDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and a group of angel investors.
What's the endgame? Joey is building a chat-first platform that captures what parents observe, applies validated clinical protocols, and delivers first-line treatment where appropriate. When further care is needed, it routes families to the right specialist.
The aim is to remove what founders Sasha Nagarajah and Abhinav Bhansali call the generalist bottleneck in paediatrics. Their bet: children deserve healthcare designed for them, not adult healthcare scaled down.
What's the money for? Joey will use the investment to deepen its library of clinical protocols, expand partnerships with healthcare providers, and advance its regulatory pathway towards medical device clearance.
Why now? Paediatrics has long been treated as too difficult or not commercially attractive to fix, despite the early years shaping lifelong health. Joey is positioning itself against that neglect.
The signal: At £1.4 million, the round sits above the median for its stage, a meaningful early vote of confidence in a corner of healthcare that has drawn little venture attention. The follow-on from Zinc VC suggests conviction from an existing backer, not just first-time interest.
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