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Here's my conversation with Antxon Caballero, CEO of Heuristik.

Antxon Caballero is the CEO and Co-Founder of Heuristik, a healthcare technology company revolutionizing patient identification through AI-powered fingerprint recognition. Six years ago, after a nurse made a wrong identification error with his grandfather, Antxon set out to solve one of healthcare's most critical and overlooked problems: patient misidentification, which affects 35% of hospital patients who cannot identify themselves due to unconsciousness, Alzheimer's, mental health issues, or emergency situations like car crashes. Heuristik has developed the world's first AI-based fingerprint solution capable of 100% accuracy in real healthcare environments, working even when fingerprints are wet, dirty, bloody, or stained—conditions that render traditional biometric systems useless.

The company recently raised €2.1 million and published groundbreaking research demonstrating their technology's effectiveness in identifying 80 patients with perfect accuracy at one of Portugal's largest private hospitals. Beyond solving life-threatening identification errors that lead to wrong medications and operations, Heuristik is eliminating the €5-15 million annual spend that hospital groups waste on single-use plastic bracelets while providing real-time patient location data and operational analytics that make healthcare processes more efficient.

With partnerships across Spain, Portugal, and expansion plans throughout Europe, Antxon is building a company grounded in scientific rigor, patient safety, and environmental responsibility, driven by the belief that the best founders measure success not just by business achievements but by their values, family commitments, and contributions to helping the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:19 The Wrong Patient Story: How Heuristik Began
0:54 The €2.1 Million Raise and What's Next
1:03 35% of Patients Cannot Identify Themselves
2:47 AI Fingerprints That Work When Wet, Dirty, or Bloody
3:24 100% Accuracy: Publishing the World's Best Research Paper
5:11 2026 Milestones: Proving Biometrics Improve Patient Safety
5:57 €5-15 Million Annual Spend on Plastic Bracelets Alone
7:40 Real-Time Patient Location and Operational Analytics
11:45 Building the Most Important Company in the World
18:48 Finding the Crazy Ones: Hiring for Mission, Not Money
27:34 Mount Rushmore of Founders

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