Thomas Kelly
Co-Founder and CEO at Heidi Health
Dr Thomas Kelly is co-founder and CEO of Heidi Health, which makes an AI medical scribe that turns clinical consultations into notes, referral letters and other documents. Kelly is a former vascular surgical resident. He started Heidi to ease the administrative burden that had limited his own clinical practice. In October 2025 Heidi raised a US$65 million Series B led by Point72 at a US$465 million valuation, taking total funding to nearly US$100 million. The company reports supporting more than two million consults a week across 116 countries and more than 200 specialties. Becker's named Kelly one of its Health IT & Revenue Cycle Up-and-Comers for 2025.
Career
- Now Co-Founder and CEO · Heidi Health
- Earlier · Startup Co-founder · Oscer
- Until 2021 Surgical registrar · The Alfred
Sources: cnbc.com
Key moments
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- 3:20 What is Heidi Health and how does it work?
- 7:30 Doctors spend half their time on documentation
- 10:45 How many Australians have unknowingly used Heidi
- 12:15 Does every AI founder need a personal brand?
- 14:20 Attention hacking vs. building real trust
- 18:00 AI Hack of the Week: voice agents as personal tour guides
- 20:00 Gemini’s financial report guessing game
- 23:00 Late Stage Startup Bingo: Aussie AI edition
- 28:30 The batch processing decision that made Heidi better
- 31:10 Why 2% better quality led to 40% more adoption
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