Vitestro

Vitestro is a Dutch medical robotics company founded in 2017 by Toon Overbeeke and Brian Joseph, who started from their own families’ experiences with difficult or time-consuming blood draws. Based in Utrecht, the company has developed Aletta, presented as the world’s first Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device, a system that automates diagnostic blood collection end to end.

Aletta received CE marking in August 2024 and FDA De Novo authorization, supported by peer-reviewed publication, and is developed in close collaboration with hospitals and laboratories. The team of engineers, clinicians and industry experts has grown to nearly 100 people, and Vitestro frames its goal as standardising sample quality and easing pressure on phlebotomy services facing staffing shortages and rising patient volumes.