Ramsay Health Care was among the investors in a $19.8m first funding round for Harrison.ai, which has already formed partnerships with Virtus Health and I-Med.

Australia-based artificial intelligence-powered healthcare company Harrison.ai closed its A$29m ($19.8m) yesterday having raised funding from investors including care provider Ramsay Health Care.

Blackbird Ventures led the round, which also included fellow venture capital firm Horizons Ventures and investment fund Skip Capital.

Harrison is developing artificial intelligence-based applications in partnership with established healthcare businesses.

The company’s first collaboration is with assisted reproductive services provider Virtus Health, for which it created an algorithm called Ivy to select the most viable embryo during…

Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.