01Health, a London-based healthcare technology startup, has raised £11 million in a Series A round led by Gresham House Ventures, with follow-on funding from existing investors Balderton Capital, Eka Ventures and Wavemaker360, and participation from angel investors including Blockchain.com co-founder Nicolas Cary. The funding will support the commercial rollout of the 01Health platform, which has until now operated behind the scenes powering the company's specialist dental businesses, 32Co and Aerox Health, and will now be made available under licence to independent practices, practice groups and dental service organisations.
Founded in 2022 by former NHS doctor Dr Sonia Szamocki, 01Health was created to tackle the problem of patients struggling to access specialist care because of workforce shortages, geographic limitations or infrastructure constraints. The platform enables specialist healthcare services to be delivered through local clinics, helping patients access advanced treatments closer to home, an approach the company describes as bringing "Harley Street to the high street". Combining specialist oversight, clinical protocols, AI-powered patient acquisition tools, communications systems and operational workflows, the platform is designed to let clinics and clinicians launch and scale specialist treatments.
A team of more than 100 employees now works at 01Health, which has gained recognition through its orthodontics platform 32Co, featured in Entrepreneur's London's 100 Startups and Startups.co.uk's Startups 100 rankings. 32Co is now the highest-rated clear aligner system among UK dentists, with 90 per cent of the UK population living within 30 minutes of a 32Co dentist operating on the 01Health platform. Aerox Health, launched in 2025, helps patients access treatment for snoring and mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnoea through local dental practices, and is now operating in multiple towns and cities across the UK, with waiting lists established in several regions as practices increase capacity. The commercial launch follows a 12-month pilot programme involving a select group of enterprise partners, and while dentistry has been the initial focus, trials are already under way in additional healthcare sectors, with further expansion planned following the latest investment.
The new funding brings total capital raised by 01Health to nearly £20 million and will be used to accelerate adoption of the platform among healthcare providers in both the UK and US. Trials are already under way in the US, and a Head of US Commercial Operations has been appointed to oversee the company's expansion into the American market.
The biggest bottleneck in healthcare isn't cost; it's access. Specialists are concentrated in a handful of postcodes; patients aren't. 01Health is the infrastructure designed to close that gap. 32Co and Aerox have already brought expert dental treatments to areas of the UK where such treatments were inaccessible, proving the concept that specialist care could be democratised if the right technology layer existed underneath it. Now this technology layer goes live as 01Health, the first of a kind end-to-end platform built to enable clinics and clinicians to launch and scale specialist treatments. We are delighted to have received this support from investors who share our vision to make the best healthcare accessible to all, irrespective of location, across the UK and soon the US.
We're incredibly proud of Sonia and her team as they cross two major milestones, a successful Series A and the launch of the 01Health platform. Over the last four years, they've built 32Co into the UK's highest-rated clear aligner provider and successfully expanded from orthodontics into sleep medicine with Aerox Health, both delivered through its network of dentists. What stood out to us from the beginning was Sonia's ambition to build the infrastructure that enables specialist healthcare to be delivered through general practitioner networks at scale, a vision that extended far beyond any single service or practitioner type. Today's launch marks an important step towards making that vision a reality.
Demand for specialist care continues to grow globally, while access to specialist expertise remains constrained. 01Health's platform enables specialist clinicians to support significantly larger networks of general practitioners remotely, creating a highly scalable model for expanding patient access to specialist-led care. We are excited to partner with Dr Sonia Szamocki and the team as they continue to scale the platform in the UK and internationally.
