Insider Brief

• Teton.ai raised $20M in a Series A led by Plural with backing from Bertelsmann Investments, Antler Elevate, Nebular, and PSV Tech, to expand its predictive AI healthcare platform.
• Its proprietary AI and computer vision shift care from reactive to predictive, improving patient outcomes, caregiver efficiency, and operator performance, with reported ARR growth of 13x and partnerships including Nvidia.
• The funding will support U.S. nationwide launch, European expansion, and scaling of its engineering team to advance predictive intelligence in senior care and hospitals.

PRESS RELEASE — Teton.ai, the predictive intelligence company for modern healthcare, announced a $20 million Series A fundraise. The round was led by Plural, which also led Teton’s seed round, with participation from Bertelsmann Investments, Antler Elevate and Nebular and follow-on investment from PSV Tech. The fundraise underscores Teton’s superior technology platform and will accelerate its mission to make amazing care affordable and accessible for all.

Using proprietary AI and computer vision technology, Teton is the only platform that shifts care and the way it is delivered from reactive to predictive. This improves quality of care for patients and residents, job satisfaction for caregivers and business performance for owners and operators. Ultimately, it lowers the cost of and increases access to premium care.

Since seed, Teton has grown ARR 13x and partnered with Nvidia to develop the largest point-of-care dataset in senior care. The company is growing customer numbers 300% year-on-year, delivering concrete outcomes to senior care communities and hospitals across the U.S. and Europe. Teton is in advanced pilots with major U.S. asset owners to bring predictive care to hundreds of thousands more residents in elderly care.

Mikkel Wad Thorsen, CEO of Teton.ai, said: “The economics of senior care and healthcare are broken: costs rise, staff burn out and outcomes suffer. Shifting care from reactive to predictive changes the equation. Emergencies decline, staffing is planned with precision and every intervention creates value. At its core, this is a deflationary technology, making top-tier care more abundantly accessible to more people — extending the length and quality of life for residents while lowering the cost to deliver it. After years embedded inside care environments, we’ve built technology that impacts daily operations, delivering measurable ROI to operators from day one and structural advantages that only grow over time.”

“Teton is at the cutting edge of a much-needed transformation in healthcare,” said Taavet Hinrikus, Partner, Plural. “Within a short time, its technology is already reducing costs and resource needs while achieving the most important thing — improved health outcomes. It’s a complete gamechanger for owners, operators, caregivers, families and residents. The strength of Teton’s team and technology means it’s set to become the market leader as it solves a huge global problem.”

The inpatient, long-term care, skilled nursing facility and in-home care sector in the U.S., Europe and Asia represents a total addressable market of $220 billion. With this fundraise, Teton will build on exceptional demand for its offering by launching nationwide in the U.S., deepening its operations across Europe and supercharging its world-class engineering team to push the boundaries of predictive AI in care.

A New Paradigm for Care: Predictive Intelligence

Healthcare, particularly senior care, faces systemic and urgent challenges. Populations are aging, comorbidities are increasing. Care staff are over-burdened and exiting the industry at higher rates than ever. Costs are already steep and rising. Teton bridges the gap between care needs and care capacity, enabling wider access to premium care for ordinary families and their loved ones.

Teton’s platform delivers four critical capabilities:

Care runs on clarity. Teton’s AI and computer vision technology creates digital twins that continuously observe and understand what’s happening across residents, staff and space — passively and privately. This generates the clarity layer for care: data that has never existed before, which creates full health profiles of residents and granular insights into operations. This is not just more data, it is the right data: real-time, accurate and actionable.

Clarity becomes foresight. Teton tracks key health metrics and brings visibility to everyday patterns and changes, helping teams notice shifts and opportunities to intervene early. Teton forecasts workflows and staffing needs, so leaders and caregivers alike can plan ahead.

Foresight leads to action. Teton delivers the right message to the right person at the right time — preventative intervention, no unnecessary disturbances. Its platform removes administrative burden from caregivers to focus on what matters — providing human-to-human care. Teton gives leaders the capacity to make informed changes to staffing, workflows and billing.

Action drives outcomes. Teton delivers proven results to every part of the care ecosystem:

→ For residents, Teton creates a deep understanding of resident health and behavior that enables tailored care that is safer, more personalized and dignified. For example, Teton reduces falls — the leading cause of injury-related death in adults 65 years and older — by 82%.

→ For families, Teton delivers transparency, trust and, ultimately, more time with loved ones. For example, Teton enables families to monitor relatives’ health and well-being remotely, in real-time.

→ For caregivers, Teton gives time back to listen to, hold hands with — to care for — residents. For example, by reducing their administrative workload and planning their rounds, Teton saves 25% of caregivers’ time — every day. This is time they can spend caring for residents.

→ For operators, Teton optimizes workflows, increases occupancy and staff retention, lowers liability and captures full revenue. For example, against a backdrop of a global shortage of caregivers, Teton drives 28% higher staff retention.

→ For owners, Teton offers portfolio-wide transparency to attract more residents, reduce operational risk and boost returns. For example, Teton delivers 5x ROI as quickly as one year post-installation.

Teton’s platform fits seamlessly into daily routines, with no wearables, video streams or third parties involved at any stage. Its intelligent, unintrusive technology works behind the scenes, delivering actionable insights to frontline staff and leaders in easy-to-use apps.

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About Teton.ai

Teton.ai is leading a fundamental shift in healthcare — moving care and the way it is delivered from reactive to predictive. Our advanced AI and computer vision technology is custom-built for healthcare settings, providing clarity, delivering foresight, enabling action and driving outcomes. The result is higher-quality care and better-run operations. We are starting with senior care communities and hospitals, and believe our technology can generate significant benefits in any healthcare environment, anywhere in the world. Founded in Denmark and with a presence across the United States and Europe, Teton exists to make amazing care affordable and accessible for all. https://www.teton.ai/

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About Plural

Plural is an early-stage investment fund that backs the most ambitious founders on a mission to change the world through technology. Plural launched in June 2022 with the aim to give serious founders in Europe investors with experience to match their ambition. Based in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK, Plural’s mission is to have GDP-level impact on Europe, address systemic risks and reduce the opportunity gap worldwide through the companies it backs. https://pluralplatform.com

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About Bertelsmann Investments

‍Bertelsmann Investments (BI) bundles Bertelsmann’s global venture capital activities and the Bertelsmann Next growth unit. The venture capital arm comprises the funds Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI), Bertelsmann India Investments (BII), and Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, as well as selected fund and direct investments in Europe, the U.S., Brazil, Southeast Asia, and Africa, among other regions. The Bertelsmann Next division drives the entrepreneurial development of new growth industries and lines of business, particularly in the fields of mobile ad tech (AppLike), HR tech (EMBRACE), and pharma tech (cormeo). Through Bertelsmann Investments’ fund network and Next activities, approximately €2.0 billion has been invested in around 500 innovative companies and funds to date. Bertelsmann Investments currently holds over 350 active investments worldwide through its start-up and fund network.

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About Antler Elevate

Antler is the investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. Founded on the belief that people innovating is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 27 cities, including San Francisco, New York, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney. Our global community backs people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Antler also provides scale-up capital from Series A onwards to companies through its $285M global fund, Antler Elevate. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invest in more than 1600 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030.

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About Nebular

Nebular is an emerging NYC based venture capital firm investing in technology companies operating at the bleeding edge of what’s possible today. Founded in 2023 the firm has rapidly grown to almost $100m assets under management and has invested in a wide range of companies building the future, from space based data centres to post quantum cryptography security for blockchains.

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About PSV Tech

PSV Tech was launched in 2020 as part of the PSV Venture House with a clear mission: to back Nordic founders even before product/market fit. Behind the fund are four General Partners — Helle Uth, Richard Breiter, Alexander Viterbo-Horten, and Christel Piron. PSV Tech invests in founders with extraordinary talent and vision — often as the very first investor. The team supports founders in taking their software startups from early validation to scalable growth. With more than €100m under management, numerous tech investments and six exits from their first fund — including Helloflow and Heyhack — the PSV Tech team has proven its strength in the earliest growth stages and truly knows the craft.

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AI chatbots can effectively mimic human characteristics, emotions and intentions, and generally are designed to communicate like a friend or confidant, which may prompt some users, especially children and teens, to trust and form relationships with chatbots.

The FTC says its inquiry seeks to understand what steps, if any, companies have taken to evaluate the safety of their chatbots when acting as companions, to limit the products’ use by and potential negative effects on children and teens, and to apprise users and parents of the risks associated with the products.

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