Take2 raises $14 million Series A to deploy autonomous AI agents in healthcare hiring
The platform aims to automate the entire recruiting funnel amid soaring vacancy costs.
A young artificial intelligence company founded by two Stanford classmates is betting that one of the most persistent bottlenecks in American healthcare is not clinical, but administrative.
Take2, which builds autonomous AI agents for healthcare recruiting, said it has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Human Capital, with participation from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC and Honeystone Ventures. The company operates research and development activities in Israel and was founded by Israeli CEO Yaniv Shimoni together with Kaushik Narasimhan.
The funding comes at a moment of acute strain in the healthcare labor market. One in three new jobs in the United States is now in healthcare, according to the company, while turnover frequently exceeds 50 percent. Vacancy costs are among the highest of any industry. Yet much of the recruiting process remains manual. Recruiters spend as much as 70 percent of their time screening candidates, and up to 85 percent of applicants drop out before ever speaking to a human being.
Take2’s premise is that large language models and voice-based AI systems can absorb much of that workload. Its first product, called the AI Interviewer, conducts real-time phone interviews around the clock, evaluates candidates automatically, records conversations and syncs results directly into applicant tracking systems, without a human recruiter participating in the call.
The system is trained on healthcare-specific hiring data, an attempt to tailor generative AI tools to the regulatory and credentialing complexities of hospitals, clinics and dental service organizations. Beyond screening, the platform generates predictive insights intended to improve hiring quality and long-term retention, a critical issue in a sector where churn is both costly and disruptive to patient care.
Take2 says it has quadrupled its customer base over the past six months and now serves leading healthcare organizations, including Top 10 Health Systems and dental service organizations, or DSOs. With the new funding, the company plans to expand beyond interviewing into what it describes as a full network of AI agents handling sourcing, screening, credential verification, scheduling and employee onboarding.
“Healthcare systems are under enormous pressure, and hiring is one of their biggest hidden costs,” Shimoni said in a statement. “We’re building AI agents that actually do the work — not just assist — so recruiting teams can focus on strategic decisions instead of endless phone calls.”
