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Knokcare: Telemedicine app connects you to doctors in 30 minutes

  • Portugal
  • 16 min read
  • Sep 18, 2020
  • By Gareth Gardiner Jones

CEO and co-founder José Bastos ©Knokcare

Seeking funding of over €1m, Portugal’s digital healthcare pioneer is expanding its SaaS to tap new markets in Europe, Africa and Latin America

Porto-born Knokcare has proven to be vital support for Portuguese medical facilities affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Given the severely curtailed in-person appointments, the private healthcare app plugged the gap with its service of connecting patients directly with doctors via online video. 
The startup, which until August 2020 was called Knok Healthcare, is raising seed funding of over €1m to speed up its expansion overseas. It last received pre-seed funding of €300,000 in 2016 to offer its Uber-style services via healthcare insurers. 
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