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Healthtech Startup oDoc raises $1M in Pre-Series A Funding February, 24, 2021 The funding will be used to create a seamless customer experience across the healthcare and insurance verticals in the region. oDoc, Sri Lanka s leading digital health company, announced it had closed USD 1 million in pre-series A funding at double its previous valuation. Existing investor Techstars led the investment round along with leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, Hustle Fund and Unpopular Ventures. Other notable investors included Cherif Habib (co-founder of Dialogue, a Canadian telemedicine start-up with over $50M in ARR), Vir Kashyap (co-founder of Babajob) and LPs Bill & Leonard Lynch. The investment will be used to expand operations and create a seamless customer experience across the healthcare and insurance verticals in the region. ....
Telemedicine Startup oDoc secures $1 Million in Pre Series A Funding Team StartupcitySrilanka based telemedicine startup oDoc has raised $1 million in pre-series A funding led by existing investors Techstars. The round also saw participation from Silicon Valley VC firms Hustle Fund and Unpopular Ventures. Other investors included Cherif Habib, Co-founder, Dialogue; Vir Kashyap, Co-founder, Babajob; and LPs Bill and Leonard Lynch. A statement said that the funding will be utilized by oDoc towards expansion of operations and creation of a seamless customer experience across the healthcare and insurance verticals. oDoc is a B2B telemedicine firm that covers over 200,000 lives in Sri-Lanka, India and Maldives. Founded in 2017, the startup connects patients with doctors for video consultations and fulfils home diagnostics and medicine delivery. The company currently has a network of over1,000 partner doctors including general physicians, pediatricians, dermatologists, mental h ....
The robot revolution is here: How it’s changing jobs and businesses in Canada Published 2 months ago February 24, 2021 Modern-day robots are how artificial intelligence (AI) physically interacts with us, and the world around us. (File photo: Brett Jordan/Unsplash) In 2017, I returned to Canada from Sweden, where I had spent a year working on automation in mining. Shortly after my return, the New York Times published a piece called, “The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine,” about Sweden’s embrace of automation while limiting human costs. Whether we like it or not, the robot era is already upon us. The question is: Is the Canadian economy poised to flourish or flounder in a world where robots take over the tasks we don’t want to do ourselves? The answer may surprise you. ....
Janaka Wickramasinghe (Chief Medical Officer) , and Ashik Bari (COO), oDoc connects patients with doctors for video consultations and fulfils home diagnostics and medicine delivery. Based in Sri Lanka, the app also provides a plug-and-play telemedicine solution for users. oDoc operates on two models: pay as you go and subscription. The subscription model starts at Rs 70 per user per month for corporate entities and the pay-as-you-go model starts at Rs 499 per consultation. The company claims to have witnessed five times growth in revenues in 2020, while maintaining healthy unit economics. This growth was fuelled by the pandemic, which was a watershed for the global telemedicine industry, the founders said in a press release. oDoc saw mass adoption across both patients and practitioners, with telemedicine being the only option for non-urgent healthcare during the lockdown. ....
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