Ditto raised €7.6M to bring the app to more patients, in more countries. The round is led by Heal Capital, one of Europe’s leading healthtech investors, together with Rubio Impact Ventures. A combination of deep clinical credibility and a real impact mandate. Because the people who suffer most from medical miscommunication aren’t the well-informed; they’re the ones the system already overlooks. The company is also grateful for the continued belief of Chris Oomen (Optiverder), who backed their mission from the very beginning, and for every angel and friend who took a bet on them early.
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We build AI for the patient, not for the doctor
Almost every AI company in healthcare today is building for doctors. Better notes, faster charts, smarter triage. All useful. But nobody is building for the person on the other side of the desk: the one who actually has to live with the diagnosis, remember the instructions, and explain it to their family that evening.
Patients remember 20 to 40% of what’s said in a consultation. That’s not about intelligence, it’s emotion. You hear what you can bear to hear, and as soon as you walk out of the room, even that fades.
We can’t give every patient a personal doctor to walk home with them. But we can give them Ditto: a clear, trustworthy summary of what was actually said, in a form they can revisit, understand, and share with the people they love.
And that’s where the leverage is. The system keeps looking for answers in more staff and more hours. Necessary, but not sufficient. The biggest untapped lever in healthcare is the patient. Better-informed patients ask better questions, follow plans more reliably, and make better decisions. The strongest medicine isn’t a drug. It’s a patient who knows what’s going on.
Starting in the Netherlands, scaling to Europe
When we launched, plenty of doctors told us patients wouldn’t want this. A few told us: ask the patient. So we did. With the support of the national Patient Federation, we aimed for 10,000 downloads in six months. You downloaded Ditto 10,000 times in a week and a half. We’re now approaching 100,000 users in the Netherlands, with a 4.7-star rating on both App Store and Google Play.
The problem spreads across borders. A patient in Rotterdam, Berlin, Madrid or Manchester walks out of the same consultation with the same fragments of the story. This round takes us to Germany, the UK and Spain this year.
Free for the patient, sustainable through partners
Ditto is free for patients. It’s paid for by the people who already have a stake in patient outcomes, insurers, patient organisations, and healthcare institutions, because the same recording that empowers a patient also unburdens the clinician. Fewer follow-up calls, less re-explaining, fewer misunderstandings that turn into missed appointments.
What’s next
Beyond geography, we’re going deeper into the patient journey. Not just clarifying the last appointment, but helping prepare the next one. Personalised, grounded in your actual conversation, with a clear view of what might lie ahead.
Source: Ditto
