Vancouver startup Simuhealth has raised $2.62 million in pre-seed funding to modernize how healthcare professionals are trained, exceeding its target by 25% as demand for simulation programs continues to expand across North America.
The round was co-led by Looking Glass Capital and Parade Ventures, with a significant investment from RiverPark Ventures. Additional participants include Altair Capital, Startup TNT, Wormhole Capital, Mike MacCombie, and a group of angel investors.
Founded in 2024, Simuhealth develops operational infrastructure for healthcare simulation centres, helping program leaders schedule training sessions, manage resources, and report on performance.
Healthcare simulation — where clinicians practice procedures on mannequins, standardized patients, and virtual scenarios before treating real patients — has become a core element of medical and nursing education. As adoption has surged, many simulation centres still rely on manual processes such as spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected tools to manage scheduling, equipment, and reporting.
Simuhealth aims to replace those fragmented systems with a purpose-built system of record that enables customers to streamline bookings, manage equipment and facilities, and generate cost-per-session data to justify budgets and scale programs.
“Healthcare training is rapidly shifting to simulation as its primary mode of delivery, and the programs providing this training are straining under legacy processes that weren’t built for this scale,” said Matthew Housser, CEO and Co-Founder of Simuhealth. “We’re building the modern operational infrastructure these centers need—so they can focus on what matters most: preparing the next generation of clinicians to deliver excellent patient care.”
The company currently employs 13 people and plans to use the new capital to accelerate product development, expand its engineering team, and grow its customer base in the United States, where the majority of the market resides.
Simuhealth recently hired Hesam Masoumi as Vice President of Product. Masoumi is a veteran health-tech product leader with experience at Sun Life and RBC Ventures, and will oversee product strategy as the company scales.
Simuhealth’s early customers include simulation programs at hospitals and academic institutions across North America.
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