Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments
VC Fund
New York, United States
Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments (BHI) is a recently launched, independent transatlantic investment firm focused on healthcare, backed by Bertelsmann Investments. It targets high-growth, technology-driven healthcare companies, providing capital from early stages through expansion, along with sector expertise and networks.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments invests in
Stages Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments invests in
Countries Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $20M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (50%)
- Medical 1 (25%)
- Internet 1 (25%)
- Software 1 (25%)
- Agentic AI 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
Country
- Israel 1 (25%)
- Austria 1 (25%)
- Germany 1 (25%)
- United Kingdom 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thorsten Wirkes
Co-Founder and Managing Director
|
Co-Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calliora develops an artificial intelligence platform designed to integrate hospital clinical documentation and coding systems to identify billing errors before invoices are sent to health insurers | $6M / Pre-Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Penelope Health provides API infrastructure for real-time payer medical policy intelligence. The company's knowledge graph structures medical coverage policies from major payers into programmable data, making policy information instantly accessible through a unified API. The platform delivers contextual code coverage across >500,000 extracted CPT, HCPCS, and ICD codes, with daily policy updates that track changes as they happen. Penelope's API allows organizations to query specific code coverage, compare payer policies, and understand medical necessity requirements without manual document review. Use cases span revenue cycle management (claim scrubbing, prior authorization, appeals automation), payer competitive intelligence, medical device field sales coverage verification, and healthtech companies building billing capabilities. The platform serves as neutral policy infrastructure, aggregating coverage criteria from UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and other major payers. Founded by a Cambridge-trained physician and ML engineer, Penelope Health operates as the policy intelligence layer for healthcare, turning scattered PDF documents into structured, real-time data. | $100M / Series A / Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Quant Health offers drug simulation, computational biology, clinical data science, respiratory, trial simulation, and oncology services. | $45M / Series B / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Our vision is to make high-quality health products accessible for everyone. We will achieve this by enabling creators of health products to build and operate high-quality products with 10x efficiency. We are putting our initial focus on automating compliance and regulatory tasks for medical device manufacturers. Our product offering includesAI-enabled automation of major parts of the data collection, aggregation, evaluation, and reporting for post-market surveillance activities. | $20M / Series A / Feb 19, 2026 |
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FAQ
What does Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments invest in?
Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments invest in?
Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments typically joins rounds of $20M–$100M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments took part in.
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Who are the partners at Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments?
The team at Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments includes Thorsten Wirkes (Co-Founder and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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