Seed closed · backed by Black Nova Ventures, Antler, and Antipodean Capital

Equitable care through trusted AI.

Bella Sláinte — pronounced BELLA SLAWN-cha. Irish for (health).

We build agentic assistive technology for Australians navigating the complexity of regulated care. Our flagship, BellaAssist, helps participants, Support Coordinators, and providers prepare evidence-ready submissions for the NDIS, with aged care and clinical trials on the horizon.

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Backed, credentialed, in partnership

Black Nova VenturesLead seed investor

AntlerSeed backer

Antipodean CapitalSeed backer

Stanford HAI · 2025Founder, Harnessing AI program

IAPP AI Governance ProfessionalCredentialed leadership

Monash UniversityResearch partner, CRC-P Round 19

Three solutions

One platform, three audiences.

BellaAssist serves the NDIS ecosystem at every level: from the participant preparing for a plan review, to the Support Coordinator managing fifty of them, to the provider organisation demonstrating audit readiness at scale.

For Enterprise

Providers & organisations

For registered NDIS providers, SIL operators, and enterprise organisations carrying documented compliance, audit-readiness, and operational efficiency obligations at scale.

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For Coordinators

Support Coordinators

Built with Support Coordinators, for Support Coordinators. Reduce evidence preparation time per participant, identify gaps early, and carry the work without carrying the admin.

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For Participants

Participants & families

Understand what your plan can fund, prepare for reviews with confidence, and own a complete, portable record of your evidence. In plain language, with your consent, under your control.

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The architecture

The Glass Box.

We use AI, specifically large language models, but only after a deterministic, rule-based layer has verified the facts. The AI's job is synthesis and language. It does not determine the facts. Four principles govern every part of the platform.

Principle one

Transparent and auditable

Every output traces back to a specific legislative control, a specific piece of evidence, and a specific decision rule. A participant, coordinator, or reviewer can see exactly why a gap was identified and what the basis for every recommendation is.

Principle two

Deterministic first, AI second

Clinical test scores are extracted using structured lookup tables, not AI inference. Funding codes and eligibility rules are deterministic, not generated. The AI synthesises only within pre-validated constraints. It writes. It does not decide.

Principle three

Human-centred framing

Before every AI call, a non-negotiable layer checks that the framing of a participant's needs respects their dignity and uses functional-impact language. "Suffers from" becomes "requires support with."

Principle four

Privacy by design

All participant data is hosted on Australian sovereign infrastructure. A seven-stage privacy-preserving pipeline redacts all PII before the compliance evaluation layer ever touches the document. Participant-controlled consent, auditable access logs, Australian Privacy Principles compliant.

Three hearts, one shamrock. One for each care system we build in: NDIS, aged care, clinical trials.

Why Bella Sláinte

A company that started with a heart.

Bella Sláinte began with a cardiac immune response — mine — that upended my life and taught me how Australia's regulated care systems really work. Not by severity of need. By quality of evidence preparation. Two people with the same condition can walk into a plan review and come out with very different funding, depending on whether they had a skilled advocate helping them translate their experience into the language the system requires.

That gap is what Bella Sláinte exists to close. Bella is for my two daughters. Sláinte is the Irish toast to health. The shamrock of three hearts is the care we carry — for the participant whose submission we help prepare, for the coordinator carrying fifty of them at once, and for the system that needs to stay sustainable for the people it was built to serve.

Jessica Martin · Founder & CEO · Bella Sláinte Pty Ltd

Let's talk.

Bella Sláinte is actively engaging with prospective customers, partners, investors, and regulatory bodies across the Australian care sector. We respond to every thoughtful inbound message within five working days.

jessica@bellaslainte.com · Jessica on LinkedIn

General enquiries

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Founder

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Finance

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Operations

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