Russian fund Addventure announced last week a Series A investment of $1.5 million in в Medbooking.com, an online service for setting appointments with Moscow medical organizations.
Medbooking is intended to become an umbrella brand for appointments with all categories of physicians, dentists and cosmetologists. It will work in synergy with Timetovisit.ru, a service launched a year ago to book appointments with dentists, in which AddVentures committed itself to investing no less than $5 million.
“Timetovisit is developing well, but market analysis showed demand for a similar service in all medical specialties,” Russian IT news portal CNews.ru quoted company representatives as saying.
In addition to booking appointments, Medbooking offers user reviews and forums as well as an online recruitment functions for medical organizations.
The site claims to have enrolled 700 Moscow clinics and medical centers, and aims to double this figure by mid-2014.
Russian medical appointment startups have sprung up like mushrooms over the past two years, inspired by ZocDoc, the US startup which raised $50 million in 2011. One of the pioneers in this field has been Infodoctor.ru, launched by personal service aggregator Eruditor.
