Top 10 Healthcare Virtual Reality startups

Updated: February 28, 2024

Virtual reality or virtual realities (VR) replicates an environment that simulates a physical presence in places in the real world or an imagined world, allowing the user to interact in that world. There are a number of areas in healthcare where virtual reality has promise: training doctors and surgeons, immersive telemedicine visits, or new kinds of indoor fitness programs, to name a few.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $340.7M
MindMotionPro is a CE-Marked hospital based solution for early motor rehabilitation post-stroke. An engaging and motivational virtual reality rehabilitation program that supports individual recovery goal.
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Country: USA | Funding: $230.2M
Vicarious Surgical combines virtual reality with surgical robotics
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Country: Israel | Funding: $225.6M
Augmedics develops cutting-edge technologies for future surgery. Augmedics develops a smart surgical system - The ViZOR: An Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display equipped with various sensors and machine learning capabilities, to be the enabling technology for future surgery.
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Country: UK | Funding: $118M
Proximie is a secure software solution that expands virtual surgical collaboration enabling surgeons to share expertise through AR.
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Country: USA | Funding: $109.2M
Osso VR is an award-winning, clinically-validated surgical training platform designed for surgeons, sales teams, and hospital staff of all skill levels. Our product offers highly realistic hand-based interactions in an immersive training environment containing cutting edge procedures and devices.
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Country: UK | Funding: $91.1M
Touch Surgery is an interactive mobile surgical simulator that guides you step-by-step through every part of an operation, and every decision that’s made along the way.
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Country: USA | Funding: $76.6 m
An Immersive Medical Learning Platform. From anatomical representation to procedural planning, zSpace brings a new dimension to medical learning and visualization.
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Country: USA | Funding: $71M
AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
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Country: USA | Funding: $40.8M
XRHealth is a medical device company that develops XR (VR/AR) telemedicine platform. It also developed headset to withstand the conditions of space by using a simulator mode and specialized tracking methodology through the controllers to ensure effective operation in a microgravity environment.
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Country: USA | Funding: $31M
Limbix builds virtual reality to improve mental health treatment by making it more effective, efficient, and easier to access.
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Country: UK | Funding: $30M
FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic simulators for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills
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Country: USA | Funding: $26.3M
The award-winning digital psychedelic wellness platform that uses the power of virtual and augmented reality to change the way you feel.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25M
Medivis is a medical technology company leveraging augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance surgical care.
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Country: UK | Funding: £17.7M
Transforming mental health for millions with state-of-the-art immersive technology
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Country: USA | Funding: $21.2M
BehaVR creates digital therapeutics for behavioral health using Virtual Reality.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $20M
RealView Imaging is introducing the world’s first 3D holographic display and interface system, initially for medical imaging applications. The company’s proprietary technology projects hyper-realistic, dynamic 3D holographic images “floating in the air” without the need for any type of eyewear or a conventional 2D screen.
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Country: USA | Funding: $120K
Since 1995, Firsthand has been creating interactive Virtual Reality applications for education, training, business, research and therapy. Our services include creative design, application development, immersive displays, and customized turnkey VR hardware systems.
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Country: USA | Funding: $17M
Health Scholars is transforming the way clinical education and training are delivered.
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Country: USA | Funding: $16.1M
EchoPixel is building a new world of patient care with its interactive, 3D medical visualization software. The True 3D system allows medical professionals to interact with patient-specific organs and tissue in an open 3D space emanating from a display, enabling doctors to immediately identify, evaluate, and dissect clinically significant structures. In diagnostic, surgical planning and image guided treatment applications, EchoPixel technology amplifies human expertise and improves both clinical efficacy and workflow.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €13.2M
Virtual Reality is the easiest and simplest way to offer best practices to anxiety patients, and at Psious, we work to make it accessible to mental health professionals. VR allows the patient to interact with environments in between in vivo and imaginal exposure, improving the flow and outcomes of exposure therapy.
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Country: USA | Funding: $14.7M
World’s first library of stress self-management modules combining evidence-based psychological interventions with Virtual Reality
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Country: UK
Medical Realities is an innovative group offering medical training products, specializing in virtual reality, augmented reality and serious games. By using consumer-level virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift, Medical Realities can reduce the cost of training, reach a wider audience & provide a completely safe learning environment for medical students.
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Country: UK | Funding: $12M
Award-winning interactive immersive education for healthcare and beyond
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Country: USA | Funding: $12.1M
Floreo is a virtual world that is safe for learners, equipping them with skills and tools they can apply in their everyday lives. Floreo's VR platform teaches social, behavioral, communication and life skills for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related diagnoses.
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Country: USA | Funding: $11.1M
Surgical Theater develops Medical Virtual Reality platform for neurosurgical pre-operative planning and rehearsal.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10.4M
JOGO uses wearables and an App that leverages AI and VR to treat neuromuscular conditions and chronic pain by providing treatment protocols and games that can be adapted for muscle relaxation, movement coordination, and neuro-muscular re-education all leveraging the clinically proven science of neuroplasticity and biofeedback.
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Country: USA | Funding: $8.8M
Zeta Surgical develops surgical navigation and robotics tools to make minimally invasive surgeries easier, faster and more accessible.
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Country: USA
DeepStream VR is developing healthcare VR apps. Leading hospitals are using DeepStream VR experiences like COOL! to help patients escape and manage pain without drugs.
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Country: France | Funding: €1M
KineQuantum develops virtual reality rehab system
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Country: Australia | Funding: $7M
Vantari VR is revolutionising the way doctors receive on the job training through its unique ‘flight simulator’ style technology.
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Country: Taiwan | Funding: $6.5M
Surglasses develops and markets a range of innovative products for use in medical education and surgical navigation solutions. SURGLASSES has developed its own patented technology in the high-performance surgical system and educational products as well.
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Country: USA | Funding: $6.4M
Nanome helps scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR
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Country: France | Funding: €6M
HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain and anxiety.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5 m
The Human Interface Technology Lab (HITLab) is a multi-disciplinary research and development lab whose work centers around human interface technology. Lab researchers represent a wide range of departments from across the University of Washington campus, including engineering, medicine, education, social sciences, architecture and the design arts.
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.4M
ImmersiveTouch is a leader in simulation based surgical training and exploration. ImmersiveTouch simulators ‘immerse’ surgeons in a digitally replicated operating environment with high-fidelity 3D virtual anatomies and haptic instrument replicates
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.3M
Embodied Labs is an immersive training platform that improves outcomes in training, awareness, and family and caregiver support.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.6M
Healium is a virtual reality and augmented reality platform, which tracks biometric data from consumer wearables then transfers those patterns into visuals within immersive technology
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.5M
GIGXR is a SaaS startup that uses mixed reality to drive training outcomes in healthcare, helping to save lives and costs globally.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3M
Karuna Labs creates virtual reality applications for pain management. Its platform allows patients to overcome learned pain and disability using Virtual Embodiment Training.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3M
Veyond Metaverse aspires to be the leading platform for the future Healthcare Metaverse ecosystem. It provides a novel and disruptive XR technology to supplement and improve education, training, and the healthcare system across the board. Veyond Metaverse develops cutting-edge extended reality (XR) solutions to improve medical education, physician training, surgical planning and procedure, treatment, and diagnosis.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3M
VMocion uses Virtual Reality to reduce motion sickness in an extended reality environment by stimulating the inner ear's vestibular system.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.9M
Vivid Vision is a company attempting to treat vision disorders such as amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus (crossed eyes) using VR headsets.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
SimX’s software replaces physical simulation mannequins with a customizable, high-definition, 3D virtual patient that can be projected anywhere.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.8M
Neuro Rehab VR develops VR/AR training exercises for physical and cognitive therapy leveraging the concepts of neuroplasticity
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Country: Canada | Funding: $1.7M
XR Medical Solutions creates unique XR (Extended Reality Includes VR, AR & MR) content in the health and wellness sector.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.2M
BioflightVR / CareXR- Offers patient focused procedure training and interactive educational modules. Covering Pediatrics and the other 14 surgical specialties. Available in multiple XR formats and companion mobile applications closes the training gap and leverages care team resources
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: $1M
Reducept fights chronic pain with Virtual Reality. They have succeeded in developing a program that trains your brain to handle pain.
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Country: Brazil | Funding: $770K
MedRoom is a Brazilian startup that uses virtual reality developing applications for health training.
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Country: Canada | Funding: CA$345.2K
A trusted provider of transformative digital therapeutics, to measurably enhance and improve health and personal well-being. Securing this portable remotely administered technology will positively disrupt, enhance and advance medical treatment strategies.
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Country: Turkey | Funding: $300K
Yesil Science develops solutions for artificial applications of artificial intelligence and digital visual technologies for scientific institutions and the industry, and to undertake the medical applications of disruptive technologies