Agastya Samat (left), co-founder and CEO of Zeya Health, and Pasindu Wijesena (right), co-founder and CTO
Singapore-based healthtech startup Zeya Health has raised US$575,000 in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-native healthcare administration platform across the Asia-Pacific region.
The round was led by Antler, with participation from a group of strategic angel investors.
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The funding comes amid mounting pressure on Southeast Asia’s healthcare systems. The regional healthcare market is projected to reach US$5 trillion by 2030; yet providers are grappling with a structural inflexion point marked by rising patient volumes, growing operational complexity, and an acute shortage of healthcare professionals.
Southeast Asia anticipates a shortage of 4.7 million healthcare workers by 2030, part of a global deficit nearing 10-18 million, driven by ageing populations and pandemics. Countries like Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines have low doctor-to-patient ratios below 1 per 1,000, far under Singapore’s 2.46. This gap burdens low- and middle-income nations, prompting migration and tech interventions.
Founded to address this administrative capacity gap, Zeya Health offers an AI-powered front desk that integrates directly with existing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems and communication platforms such as WhatsApp. The solution automates routine but time-consuming tasks, including appointment reminders, follow-ups, and rescheduling, operating around the clock without requiring clinics to overhaul their core systems. According to the company, providers can go live in under 48 hours following a scan of existing workflows.
Since August, Zeya Health claims to have achieved over 20x growth in clinic onboarding and is sustaining a 2x month-on-month expansion rate. The startup is currently working with AcuMed, a leading healthcare provider in Singapore, to pilot its platform across a multi-clinic environment.
“From day zero, the Zeya team has executed with speed and discipline,” said Winnie Khoo, Partner at Antler. “They are addressing a deeply entrenched problem in healthcare: operational and administrative overhead while earning trust from providers who are cautious about adopting new systems.”
Zeya Health was co-founded by CEO Agastya Samat, who previously deployed digital health solutions for the UK’s National Health Service, and CTO Pasindu Wijesena, who founded his first AI startup five years before the launch of ChatGPT. “We’ve both seen firsthand how care teams end up spending more time fighting systems than caring for patients,” said Samat. “We started Zeya to remove that bottleneck, so providers can grow without burning out their teams.”
The startup currently serves healthcare providers across specialities such as physiotherapy, paediatrics, and primary care, and plans to expand into additional care models and regional markets in 2026.
The newly raised capital will be used for continued product development and scaled deployments across private healthcare providers in Singapore and the wider Asia-Pacific region. To support this growth, Zeya Health is actively hiring Forward Deployed Engineers and Clinical Deployment Specialists.
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Zeya Health’s approach aligns with a broader shift towards AI-enabled healthcare in Southeast Asia. AI revolutionises the region’s healthcare space by improving diagnostics, predicting patient deterioration, and enabling remote care to offset staff shortages. Success stories include Singapore’s Changi General Hospital using AI wearables for vital sign monitoring and complication prediction with over 90 per cent accuracy, Thailand’s Siriraj Hospital as a 5G AI smart hospital for diagnostics, and VinBrain’s DrAid X-ray tool deployed in 100+ hospitals regionally.
By positioning itself as a foundational AI layer rather than a replacement system, Zeya Health aims to help healthcare organisations scale sustainably without adding further complexity. In the company’s own framing, it acts as a “digital lubricant for the rusted gears of healthcare administration”, smoothing the friction of scheduling and paperwork so clinical teams can focus on patient care rather than process.
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