Zeya Health, a Singapore healthtech startup backed by Antler, has acquired ConnectLah, a company that automates clinic bookings, reminders and patient enquiries over WhatsApp. e27 reported the deal on October 1, 2026.
The companies did not disclose financial terms. ConnectLah's founder, Jules Pereira-Gomes, joins Zeya as a strategic advisor.
According to e27, ConnectLah's clinic customers are expected to get access to a wider set of Zeya tools that connect to their existing clinic systems. Zeya said it would adapt the move for each provider around its own appointment types, practitioner availability, reminders and follow-ups. No timeline for the transition was given.
What ConnectLah built
ConnectLah sold automation for the clinic front desk. Its software handled patient messages, appointment bookings and reminders through WhatsApp, which many clinics and patients in the region already use.
Pereira-Gomes said ConnectLah had brought AI into those existing channels and had tested the approach in working clinics with live patient workflows.
e27 did not report ConnectLah's founding date, headquarters, customer count or funding. DealStreetAsia also reported the acquisition.
“Booking an appointment should be as simple as asking for one.”
Why Zeya is buying
Zeya describes what it is building as "agentic booking infrastructure". The aim is to automate everything between a patient asking for an appointment and a clinic confirming it, while following each clinic's scheduling rules and linking into the systems it already runs.
Agastya Samat, Zeya's founder and chief executive, said the hard part of booking happens behind the scenes, in the schedules, systems and rules that decide what can actually be booked. Over the longer term, Zeya wants patients' own authorised AI assistants to be able to book appointments, with the providers' systems enforcing the rules.
Zeya's current products cover patient enquiries, bookings, reminders and follow-ups over messaging and voice channels. Adding ConnectLah also brings more providers onto Zeya's network.
The founders and the funding
Zeya was founded by Samat, who previously deployed digital health products with the UK's National Health Service and a large insurer in the Middle East, and by Pasindu Wijesena, its chief technology officer. In January 2026 the company raised $575,000 in pre-seed funding from Antler and a group of unnamed strategic angel investors, TechNode Global reported.
Samat said at the time that he had started Zeya to remove the administrative bottleneck at clinics so that providers could grow without exhausting their staff. Winnie Khoo, a partner at Antler, said the team had moved quickly and with discipline from the start. TechNode Global also reported that AcuMed, a Singapore healthcare provider, was assessing a pilot across several of its clinics, and that Zeya was hiring forward deployed engineers and clinical deployment specialists.
At the time, Zeya described its product as an AI front desk that connects to a clinic's electronic medical records and to channels such as WhatsApp, and said clinics could go live in under 48 hours. It was then working with physiotherapy, primary care, paediatric, surgical and aesthetic outpatient providers.
Zeya said its revenue grew 15-fold over the past year. It works with healthcare providers in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam, plus a hospital partner in Cambodia, and aims to reach 1,000 providers by mid-2027. These figures come from the company and have not been independently verified.
A crowded market for clinic bookings
e27 listed consumer-facing services such as Doctor Anywhere, Halodoc, Practo and HealthEngine, as well as Doctolib and Zocdoc, as companies working on patient access. Zeya is positioning itself one layer down, as infrastructure for providers rather than as a marketplace where patients choose a doctor.
In January, Zeya pointed to the size of the opportunity: TechNode Global cited a projection that the Asia-Pacific healthcare market will reach about $5 trillion by 2030, at a time when the region faces a serious shortage of healthcare workers.
The deal gives Zeya ConnectLah's clinic customers and its WhatsApp booking product as it works toward its provider target.
