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Funding and backers

Total raised
$70M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$70M
Series B · Mar 2026 · 7 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Grants
$4.8M
2 grants · CORDIS
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 20 Certified Vitestro Receives FDA De Novo Authorization for Aletta, the World's First Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device · vitestro.com May 19 Board appointment Vitestro appoints medtech executive Eliane Schutte to its Board of Directors · vitestro.com Mar 10 Raised a round Series B $70M Aug 1, 2025 New executive Vitestro welcomes Bas Nieuwenhuis as VP of engineering · vitestro.com Mar 19, 2025 Partnership Northwestern Medicine and Vitestro Collaborate to Advance Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy · vitestro.com Mar 6, 2025 Launched Vitestro Unveils Aletta: The World's First Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device (ARPD) · vitestro.com Jan 6, 2025 New executive Vitestro Appoints Bob Gerberich as Chief Commercial Officer for North America · vitestro.com Aug 28, 2024 Certified Vitestro Achieves CE Marking for Autonomous Blood Drawing Device · PRNewswire Jun 1, 2023 Won a grant $2.2M · CORDIS Jan 1, 2020 Won a grant $2.6M · CORDIS 2017 Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Mar 2026 $70M — vitestro.com
Grant Jun 2023 $2.2M — CORDIS
Grant Jan 2020 $2.6M — CORDIS
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Overview

Vitestro is a medical technology company that develops the Aletta autonomous robotic phlebotomy device, which performs the entire diagnostic blood draw using ultrasound and near-infrared imaging, robotics and AI. The device addresses healthcare staffing shortages, and the company hires embedded, integration and field service engineers. The company is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

News

How Vitestro's first-of-its-kind Aletta robot autonomously draws blood
Vitestro's Aletta system uses multimodal imaging, Doppler ultrasound and AI to take samples in less than 3 minutes.
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News TNW Health-tech 2 months ago
A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026
The FDA has authorised the first autonomous robotic blood draw device. It is the least glamorous AI story of the year, and the most convincing one.
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Blog 2 months ago
Vitestro Receives FDA De Novo Authorization for Aletta, the World's First Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device
The post Vitestro Receives FDA De Novo Authorization for Aletta, the World's First Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device appeared first on Vitestro.
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Blog 5 months ago
Vitestro appoints medtech executive Eliane Schutte to its Board of Directors
The post Vitestro appoints medtech executive Eliane Schutte to its Board of Directors appeared first on Vitestro.
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Blog 6 months ago
Vitestro Publishes Landmark Peer-Reviewed Multicenter Clinical Study of Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy in Clinical Chemistry
The post Vitestro Publishes Landmark Peer-Reviewed Multicenter Clinical Study of Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy in Clinical Chemistry appeared first on Vitestro.
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Press release 7 months ago
Vitestro Raises $70 Million in Oversubscribed Series B Financing to Advance Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy and Commercial Readiness
Vitestro, the pioneer in medical robotics advancing automated diagnostic blood collection, today announced the close of a $70 million oversubscribed Series B financing.
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Blog 9 months ago
Vitestro launches new website and first public video of Aletta Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device
The post Vitestro launches new website and first public video of Aletta Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device appeared first on Vitestro.
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Blog 1 year ago
Vitestro welcomes Bas Nieuwenhuis as VP of engineering
The post Vitestro welcomes Bas Nieuwenhuis as VP of engineering appeared first on Vitestro.
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Blog 1 year ago
Northwestern Medicine and Vitestro Collaborate to Advance Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy
The post Northwestern Medicine and Vitestro Collaborate to Advance Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy appeared first on Vitestro.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Vitestro over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
C++
Java
Apex
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Apache Camel
Micronaut
Quarkus
Spring Boot
Cloud & platforms
Linux
AWS
AWS Fargate
Amazon CloudWatch
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Full Vitestro tech stack 22 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
2
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
14 days
faster than 61% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
67% ▼
Hardware
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added EtherCAT to stack Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Utrecht
Utrecht Netherlands
HQ
Join us in shaping the future of healthcare
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Field & Service
3526 KS Utrecht, Netherlands
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

≈ $50k – $106k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 4+ years exp • Utrecht
Python
C++
Multimodal AI
DevOps
Git
Linux
Robotics
EtherCAT
CANopen
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Financials

Total raised
$74.8M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 $70M Details
Grant 2023 $2.2M Details
Grant 2020 $2.6M Details