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Built in theatre, for theatre.

TheatreLink began with a simple observation from inside the operating theatre: the most valuable, most expensive room in a private hospital was being run on paper rotations, phone calls and email chains. We set out to give Australian private hospitals the coordination layer they never had — one that captures every booking, admission and instrument set once, at the source, and keeps the whole theatre team working from the same live picture.

Our story

A surgeon’s problem, solved by the people who live it.

Across nearly three decades operating in Australian private hospitals, our clinical co-founder watched the same pattern repeat in every theatre suite. Lists were printed weekly, colour-coded by hand, photographed and texted around. A booking lived in one person’s inbox; an instrument set in another’s memory; an admission in a fax tray. When something changed — and in theatre, something always changes — the update reached people late, or never.

“A wasted theatre list isn’t an inconvenience. It’s the hospital’s single most valuable asset, left idle.”

That waste is real, and it compounds. Theatre time runs to thousands of dollars an hour, and a single recurring gap can quietly cost a hospital six figures a year. Meanwhile clinicians and theatre staff burn hours on coordination that software should simply handle. We built TheatreLink to put that time back — for the surgeons and rooms who book the work, and for the hospital teams who make the day happen.

Crucially, TheatreLink doesn’t try to replace the hospital’s patient administration system. It sits upstream of the PAS, capturing clean, validated data at the point of origin and feeding it downstream — so nothing is transcribed twice, lost in an inbox, or entered wrong on the day.

Why it matters

The numbers behind the problem.

~$5k

An hour of operating-theatre time, in round numbers — which makes every unfilled list a direct loss.

1 in 3

Australian private hospitals now run at a loss. Theatre utilisation is one of the few levers they fully control.

634

Private hospitals across Australia — each coordinating theatres on tools never built for the job.

What we believe

The principles we build on.

01

Capture once, at the source

The person who knows the detail should enter it once — the surgeon, the practice manager, the patient. Everything downstream inherits clean, structured data instead of re-keying it.

02

Built with clinicians, not at them

Every workflow is shaped by people who actually run theatre lists. If it doesn’t fit how a surgeon books or a theatre manager runs the morning, it doesn’t ship.

03

Coordinate the whole workflow

Scheduling, bookings, on-call rostering, accreditation, admissions, consent, instrument sets and analytics belong on one platform — not in ten disconnected tools.

04

Australian-built, hospital-grade

Patient data lives in Australia, encrypted, with a full audit trail. Security and data residency aren’t features we added — they’re where we started.

The team

Operator, clinician, builder.

TheatreLink is led by founders who pair deep clinical insight with commercial and delivery experience — and who built the platform before raising a dollar.

Connor Berkery, CEO and Co-Founder of TheatreLink

Connor Berkery

Co-Founder

Leads commercial and growth. An award-winning B2B operator who owns pipeline, hospital partnerships and the relationships that bring new sites onto the platform.

Kalman Piper, CMO and Co-Founder of TheatreLink, a practising orthopaedic surgeon

Kalman Piper

Co-Founder

A practising orthopaedic surgeon with around three decades in private theatres. The clinical insight behind the product — and the reason it reflects how theatre actually runs.

Joseph Puckeridge, COO and Co-Founder of TheatreLink

Joseph Puckeridge

Co-Founder

Leads operations, delivery and compliance. Brings the discipline of large-scale project delivery to the build, the rollout and the path to hospital-grade certification.

Where we’re headed

The infrastructure layer for procedural healthcare.

We started with coordination because that’s where the pain is sharpest. From there, TheatreLink becomes the operating system for theatre capacity — extending into optimisation, prediction and analytics, and standardising theatre operations across whole hospital networks.

One platform, every theatre, every hospital

See it on your own theatres.

We’ll walk through your current workflow and show you exactly where TheatreLink fits — no slide deck, no scripted pitch.