We started Retrievant because both of us had spent a decade watching medical records go missing. Élodie ran product for a records platform used by most French GPs and saw how often the record a doctor needed was in another doctor's drawer. Julien built interoperability infrastructure for 700 hospitals and knew exactly how much of a patient's history the networks never touched.
Paris was the natural start: strong health-data regulation, a national records system that is ambitious and incomplete in equal measure, and a deep bench of clinical-ML talent. Boston came next because the US is where retrieval is most broken and most expensive, and where our first legal and underwriting customers were.
Nolqa's $555K pre-seed investment lets us do three things: grow retrieval operations in both cities, extend voice and document agents to the remaining US states and to Germany and Spain, and publish more of our work on agent safety in health contexts. Nolqa backs early technical teams working on infrastructure problems; we are glad they see record retrieval as one.
We are 23 people. We are hiring across engineering, ML and retrieval ops. And we remain, stubbornly, a company whose product is the record, not the model.