MediQuo is a Catalan company dedicated to the development of a mobile medical chat application.

It is in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

It has recently sold part of its shares for €2m to continue its growth and launch another app.

Talking about digitisation in industry healthcare is to talk about the present.

Currently, many companies in this sector are developing their digital transformation and, in this way, focusing part of their actions in the online sphere.

A reality reflected both in the sector and in the movements of its corporate finances.

MEDIQUO

Founded in 2013 and based in Barcelona, Medipremium Servicios Médicos, MediQuo, is a medical consultation application.

The platform aims to have 14,000 health professionals available to its users.

They also aim to be able to serve 1.5 million patients in the next 15 months.

The service already operates in some twenty countries, especially in Spain, the United States and Latin America.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Mediquo works in a similar way to any messaging app, such as WhatsApp.

Once the user has downloaded it, it will be possible to to put in contact with registered doctors and other health professionalsin order to receive answers to your medical questions in less than 2 minutes.

They include paediatricians, gynaecologists, cardiologists, nutritionists, sexologists, psychologists and even personal trainers.

CLAIMS FOR CHANGE

In addition, the company has recently announced that it is incorporating Bruno Cuevasfrom Adevinta, as co-CEO of the group.

Cuevas has been in charge of assuring that MediQuo wants to change the way in which patients interact with health professionals.

SUPPORT RECEIVED

To this end, at the end of January, the company sold part of its shareholding in the company in a financing round valued at 2M€ to various partners in the eHealth.

Specifically, we are talking about Albert Castells and José López, founders of iHealth, and several investors in the sector, such as Target Global, a German investment fund.

With this saleMediQuo wants to put a hospital in everyone's pocket.

It plans to launch an application so that all healthcare professionals can attend their patients' consultations online, and not only the platform's collaborators.

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

It is worth noting that in less than two years, MediQuo has raised €4m.

As if that were not enough, downloads of its app have reached almost 600,000 mobile devices and it has attended to almost one million medical consultations.

The recently concluded 2019 closed with a turnover of around 100,000 euros.

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