Take2, a New York company that builds AI agents for healthcare recruiting, raised a $14m Series A round announced on 11 February 2026. Human Capital led the round. Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC and Honeystone Ventures also took part. Axios Pro reported the funding first.
The company did not disclose a valuation, its total funding, its headcount or its founding year. Calcalist reported that Take2 conducts its research and development in Israel.
“We're building AI agents that actually do the work — not just assist.”Yaniv Shimoni and Kaushik Narasimhan, Co-founders, Take2
What Take2 does
Take2's first product is the AI Interviewer, an agent that holds phone interviews with candidates at any hour, evaluates them, records the calls and syncs the results into applicant tracking systems without a person in the loop. The company says the agent is trained on healthcare-specific hiring data and gives predictive insight on hiring quality and retention.
Take2 says it serves leading healthcare organisations, including some of the largest health systems in the United States. It named none of them as customers; Calcalist said they include top-10 health systems and dental service organisations. Joe Gage, chief human resources officer at Mercy Health and chairperson-elect of the Catholic Health Association, was quoted in the announcement saying that Take2 works and is not just a promise. The announcement did not say whether Mercy Health is a customer.
The founders
The company was co-founded by Yaniv Shimoni and Kaushik Narasimhan, whom Calcalist described as Stanford classmates. Take2 focuses only on healthcare recruiting, including its workflows, regulatory needs and hiring patterns, and says its agents are meant to cover the whole hiring process from job posting to offer. Calcalist said the product suits the credentialing demands of hospitals, clinics and dental service organisations.
The company said one in three new US jobs is in healthcare, that turnover at many organisations exceeds 50%, and that vacancy costs are among the highest of any industry. It said recruiters can spend up to 70% of their time screening candidates and that up to 85% of applicants drop out before speaking to a person. These are the company's own figures. Take2 also told Calcalist that its customer base quadrupled over the past six months, without giving customer numbers.
What the money is for
Take2 plans to grow beyond interviewing into a network of agents that cover sourcing, screening, credential verification, scheduling and employee onboarding. It said the aim is to save healthcare organisations millions of dollars a year and to improve quality of hire and employee retention.
Some data aggregators list customer counts and headcount for Take2, but those figures are not in the company's announcement or the news reports used here, so they are not included.
Who invested
Justainews described the investors as having experience in healthcare, workforce technology and education. No investor representative was quoted in the coverage reviewed here.
Company website: take2.ai