Healthcare firm raises $16 million to develop platform

A London healthcare technology company has secured fresh investment to expand an AI platform designed to reduce administrative pressures across the NHS and help patients move through care pathways more quickly.

Frontier Health has raised $16 million in a seed funding round led by Atomico, with participation from firstminute capital and XYZ.

Founded in 2024 by former Palantir Technologies healthcare lead Rachel Finegold, the company has developed JUNO, an AI-powered assistant designed to support NHS administrative teams.

The platform works alongside staff, helping to complete routine tasks, identify delays and flag potential risks without requiring changes to existing NHS systems.

Bosses say the funding comes as NHS services continue to face significant pressures, with millions of patients waiting for treatment and administrative teams managing increasingly complex workloads.

They add the investment will be used to accelerate deployment of JUNO across more NHS Trusts, enhance the platform’s capabilities and grow Frontier Health’s team.

Rachel Finegold, founder and chief executive of Frontier Health and former healthcare lead at Palantir Technologies, said: “I spent years inside the NHS across more than 40 hospitals, watching brilliant, dedicated people drown in process. 

“Not because they weren’t good enough, but because the tools around them hadn’t kept pace with the demand placed on them. 

“The admin that should be keeping patients moving was becoming the thing that slowed everything down. 

“That is a solvable problem. JUNO exists to solve it.”

Rachel adds that JUNO is already delivering measurable results in live NHS environments. 

At East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the technology helped save 221 days of staff time over an eight-week period while reducing the median time patients spent on a care pathway by 22 per cent.

Unlike traditional automation tools, JUNO is designed to adapt to existing workflows and can be deployed within weeks. 

The company says the platform operates within NHS Trusts’ secure environments and remains fully auditable, with oversight from NHS staff at all times.

Steve Reipond, improvement director at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, added: “The pressure on NHS Trusts to deliver better patient care with constrained resources is not going away. 

“What JUNO has shown us is that there is a smarter way to work. 

“By reducing the manual tasks that consume so much of our teams’ time and giving our operational leads the visibility they need to make faster, better decisions, we have been able to improve patient outcomes."

Lina Wenner, partner at firstminute capital, added: “Healthcare administration is at an inflection point. 

“For too long, the systems and teams keeping patients moving have been asked to do more with less, and the consequences are visible across every NHS waiting list and performance metrics.

“Frontier Health’s approach represents a genuine shift in what is possible, and JUNO's early results demonstrate the scale of the opportunity. 

“The team’s depth of NHS experience and proven execution make them uniquely placed to lead this category.”

Ross Fubini, managing parter of XYZ, added: “The Frontier Health team is unmatched. 

“Rachel Finegold spent six years as healthcare lead at Palantir, operating inside the messiness of the real world to deliver reliable outcomes for institutions that absolutely cannot fail. 

“There is no one more familiar with the data, the tech, the ground truth inside health systems.

“And she’s building a team around her that will completely transform health administration.”

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