Aldebaran

What Aldebaran does

Aldebaran is a French e-health startup founded in 2020–2021 and headquartered in Lille (Roubaix), providing AI-powered pre-consultation medical assistants for general practitioners, specialists, and healthcare structures across France. The platform operates by intercepting the appointment-booking flow through native integrations with France's dominant appointment platforms (Doctolib, Maiia, Made for Med), automatically delivering clinically validated questionnaires to patients via SMS or email before their visit. Completed questionnaires are processed by a hybrid AI stack — combining symbolic (rule-based expert systems), machine learning, large language models, and retrieval-augmented generation — to produce a structured Synthèse Médicale with color-coded alerts, automatically calculated clinical scores (PHQ-9, GAD-7, Epworth, Fagerström, STOP-BANG), and a Complexity Index that helps physicians anticipate and schedule cases. The product portfolio includes a practitioner dashboard, a patient-facing mobile and web questionnaire application, the validated clinical question library (15,000+ questions), and billing assistance (Aide à la Cotation) covering 30+ cotation codes.

The company monetizes via a subscription-based SaaS model targeting medical practices, primary care networks (CPTS, MSP), and hospital centers. Distribution is primarily product-led through appointment-platform integrations and direct demo-driven sales, with marketing focused on physician testimonials, case studies, and educational content. Aldebaran holds HDS certification for French health data hosting, is RGPD/GDPR-compliant under CNIL oversight, and uses AES-256 encryption with Pro Santé Connect authentication. The company has raised approximately 2 million euros in total disclosed funding (1.6M€ seed in May 2023 from physicians, Business Angels, Bpifrance, and banking partners), serves over 330 healthcare structures and 300,000 patients, and has expanded via the November 2024 acquisition of PAM Building. Founding leadership comprises Vincent Jacquelinet (CEO), Dr Christian Jacquelinet (Medical Director), and Nate Lowe (CTO), supported by a team of approximately 12 across growth, R&D, engineering, clinical, and physician-relations functions.

Name

Aldebaran

Legal name

Aldebaran

Website

https://aldebaran.care

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Aldebaran is a French e-health startup providing AI-powered pre-consultation medical assistants that automate intelligent patient questionnaires and generate structured clinical summaries for general practitioners, specialists, and healthcare structures across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Decision Support Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital & AI-Enabled Diagnostics (algorithmic interpretation, decision support tied to assays) (HLAAALAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Medical Billing & Coding Automation (HLACACAA)

Keywords

• Medical pre-consultation AI
• Clinical questionnaire platform
• Physician decision support
• Healthcare SaaS France
• Patient intake automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Roubaix

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription/ SaaS Model: Aldebaran operates as a SaaS solution for medical practices and healthcare structures. Healthcare providers subscribe to access the pre-consultation platform, intelligent questionnaires, and medical synthesis tools. Pricing is likely based on practice/structure size or per-consultation usage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Aldebaran provides a SaaS AI-powered pre-consultation platform for healthcare professionals. When patients book an appointment via integrated platforms (Doctolib, Maiia, Made for Med), the system automatically sends adaptive clinical questionnaires. Patient responses are processed by a hybrid AI combining symbolic rules, machine learning and LLMs to generate structured medical summaries with color-coded alerts and automatically calculated clinical scores (PHQ-9, GAD-7, Epworth, Fagerström, STOP-BANG) delivered to the physician before the consultation.

Product overview

Aldebaran offers a unified medical pre-consultation AI platform comprising two interconnected interfaces: a Practitioner Dashboard (Assistant Médical de Pré-Consultation) and a Patient Questionnaire Application. The platform centers on an AI-powered Synthèse Médicale that generates structured clinical summaries from over 15,000 validated clinical questions. Key features include automated validated score calculations (PHQ-9, GAD-7, Epworth, Fagerström, STOP-BANG), a Complexity Index for consultation planning, integrated billing assistance (Aide à la Cotation), and proactive prevention and screening identification. The system integrates natively with major French appointment platforms (Doctolib, Maiia, Madeformed) for automatic questionnaire delivery. Aldebaran positions itself as a pre-consultation specialist, differentiating from consultation-during/during AI scribe products like Heidi, Tandem, and Doctolib Assistant.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Assistant Médical de Pré-Consultation (Practitioner Interface) AI-powered pre-consultation assistant interface for healthcare practitioners (general practitioners and specialists) that displays AI-generated medical syntheses from completed patient questionnaires, with color-coded alerts, automatic validated clinical score calculations (PHQ-9, GAD-7, Epworth, Fagerström, STOP-BANG), and a complexity index to help physicians anticipate and organize their consultation schedule.
• Questionnaire Patient (Patient Interface) Patient-facing mobile and web application that delivers intelligent clinical questionnaires before appointments, allowing patients to prepare their consultation by describing symptoms, updating medical history, and responding to prevention and screening questions from home before their appointment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 30% of daily medical time saved per physician
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability4 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• DoctolibcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2021Integration partnership for automatic pre-consultation questionnaire delivery when patients book appointments through Doctolib's platform. This is a key distribution channel enabling seamless adoption among French physicians using Doctolib.
• MaiiacoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Maiia appointment platform for automatic questionnaire delivery to patients booking consultations.
• Made for MedsupportingTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Made for Med appointment platform for pre-consultation questionnaire functionality.
• EurasantésupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare innovation incubator in Lille where Aldebaran was hosted early in its development to structure the project and test against real-world medical practice.
• HEC Paris Station FsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerStartup incubator at Station F in Paris where Aldebaran was accelerated in 2023 as the company scaled.
• MyData-TrustsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerExternal Data Protection Officer (DPO) appointed by Aldebaran to ensure ongoing compliance with patient data rights and privacy. Independent oversight of data protection practices.
• Centre Hospitalier de BlignysupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerHospital center partnering with Aldebaran for pre-consultation solutions deployment.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Ada Health: Ada Health is an AI-powered symptom assessment and triage platform that engages patients before clinical encounters. While more consumer-facing than Aldebaran, Ada addresses a similar patient pre-encounter data collection use case and could expand into physician-facing pre-consultation workflows.
• Ambience Healthcare: Ambience Healthcare is an AI medical scribe and clinical workflow platform serving ambulatory and specialty care physicians. It targets overlapping physician personas with broader during-consultation capabilities, positioning as a potential comprehensive alternative to Aldebaran's pre-consultation focus.

Direct peers

• Nabla: Nabla is a Paris-based AI medical assistant that generates clinical notes and supports physicians across consultations, including pre-consultation summarization. Like Aldebaran, Nabla is a French-headquartered AI clinical workflow company targeting the same physician base and overlapping with Aldebaran's pre-consultation synthesis capabilities.
• Suki AI: Suki AI is an AI voice assistant for clinicians that generates clinical notes, retrieves information, and reduces documentation burden across the care continuum. Suki competes for the same physician productivity budget as Aldebaran and represents a comparable AI clinical workflow product with broader workflow coverage.
• Abridge: Abridge is a US-based AI medical conversation platform that converts patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes. Although focused on during-consultation ambient documentation, Abridge represents the well-capitalized, full-stack AI scribe model that could expand upstream into pre-consultation workflows to compete with Aldebaran's narrower positioning.
• Heidi Health: Heidi Health is an AI medical scribe that transcribes consultations and generates clinical notes for physicians across multiple countries. While focused on during/post-consultation documentation, Heidi is a direct competitor for physician AI workflow budgets and could expand into pre-consultation preparation to compete with Aldebaran's positioning.
• Augmedix (Commure): Augmedix (now part of Commure) provides AI-powered medical documentation and ambient clinical intelligence solutions for physicians. Augmedix targets similar physician productivity and documentation use cases as Aldebaran's pre-consultation workflows and represents the broader AI clinical workflow competitive set.

Broad incumbents

• Doctolib: Doctolib is the dominant French medical appointment booking and telehealth platform that has launched its own Assistant IA competing with Aldebaran. Doctolib is both Aldebaran's most important integration partner and its most strategically threatening competitor, controlling distribution that Aldebaran depends on while expanding into adjacent AI clinical workflows.

Regional players

• Weda: Weda is a French cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) system used by GPs and specialists across France. As a primary workflow system for French physicians, Weda is both a potential integration partner and a competitor for physician-facing workflow software budgets in the same French ambulatory care market.
• Lifen: Lifen is a French health data exchange and document management platform serving hospitals and healthcare providers with secure document workflows. While focused on secure document transmission rather than AI pre-consultation, Lifen shares the French health-IT regulatory environment and overlaps in selling into French healthcare structures.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A1 record

Investments

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