We’ve seen a number of industries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. But we’ve also seen a number with increased demand. Telehealth is one of the latter.
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To that end, Austin-based Medici announced today it has raised a $24 million Series B from a group of existing blockers including Barry Sternlicht, chairman of Starwood Capital Group; Howard Jenkins, founder of Publix; Kenneth Griffin, CEO of Citadel, and Nathan Kirsh, head of Jethro. The investment brings Medici’s total raised since 2016 to over $70 million, according to Crunchbase data.
I’ve been following Medici over the past few years and it’s been fun watching the company’s model and business evolve.
Basically, Medici was doing telehealth before telehealth was cool.
The startup offers a HIPAA-compliant virtual healthcare platform for over 20,000 healthcare providers and their patients to “securely” communicate via text, voice and video chat.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated, Medici says it saw its patient registrations increase by 1,409 percent from February to April compared to the fourth quarter. Specifically, in the month of April, CEO and Founder Clint Phillips told me that Medici experienced over 120,000 patients having consults via its platform platform in April. That is up 15 times compared to last year at this time. Usage and revenue were both up 400 percent in the first quarter compared to Q4, he added.
The company currently has 70 employees, up from 40 at this time last year.
“Even more, patients are being helped stay informed,” Phillips told Crunchbase News.
For example, Dr. Tina Carrol Scott uses Medici daily through its “announce” feature to update all of her patients, many who are underserved, on COVID related issues. In the last two weeks she has sent her patients resources on: avoiding infection, domestic abuse, employment resources, and healthy food distribution centers. She’s also sent them a book on parenting via Medici, according to Phillips.
Medici also has over 1,000 veterinarians using its platform.
Standing out from the rest
I covered the company’s last raise – a $22 million round in June 2018 from individual investors including executives from Citadel, Dell, Publix, and Starwood Capital.
At that time, Phillips told me that “plenty of companies like Doctors on Demand, MDLIVE and Teladoc provide a patient with a call center doc.”
“You don’t know them; they don’t know you. There’s no context or records involved. And your medical record becomes fragmented,” he said.
What differentiates Medici, according to Phillips, is the company’s ability to allow people to “speak to their own doctor,” and not some random physician.
Additionally, doctors don’t view the company as a threat since it claims to enhance or protect their business – not replace it, he added. Medici is HIPPA compliant and provides malpractice insurance in an effort to provide a “safe” environment for doctors, Phillips added.
A few years ago, Medici added a desktop version of its app after getting feedback from doctors that it could be hard to answer questions via their mobile phones, according to Phillips. Medici also included a group chat feature to allow doctors more freedom to incorporate an assistant or bring a specialist into a conversation with a patient.
“Doctors had been longing for this feature,” Phillips told Crunchbase News at the time. “It sounds simple, but in health care, you have to know where conversations can be stored and where they are going (due to HIPPA regulations).”
The company plans to use its new capital to invest in Africa and to look at “various global markets.” However, the United States his 85 percent its focus, according to Phillips.
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