20 million euros for medical startup TCC
The Hamburg-based medtech startup TCC has raised 20 million euros in a Series A financing round. The money comes from ship owner and logistics entrepreneur Captain Thomas Pötzsch. TCC has been offering digital remote care for intensive care patients for two years.
TCC offers all-round telemedical care and help through AI
The startup was founded in 2020 by Prof. Dr. Christian Storm and David Barg. Storm worked for many years as an intensive care physician at Berlin's Charité hospital, while Barg is a qualified caregiver and business economist with extensive management experience. The TCC platform enables location-independent and preventive patient monitoring. It supports care units with real-time dashboards and networks hospitals across sectors and disciplines. Trained intensive care physicians are available around the clock. TCC supports more than 3,000 beds worldwide, around 300 of which are in Germany. Its largest international customer is Netcare from South Africa, a network of 44 hospitals with a total of 1,000 intensive care beds.
TCC intends to use the money it has now received to drive forward the development and approval of systems for clinical decision support that process high-frequency data from medical end devices. Among other things, it is considering software that can predict disease events with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The digitalisation and optimization of hospital processes is intended to relieve the burden on the healthcare system and counteract the shortage of specialists in the fields of medicine and nursing.
